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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: John McCain Returns To The Senate Floor Days After Brain Surgery [Watch (HLS stream): John McCain Returns To The Senate Floor Days After Brain Surgery](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/sxCfWUfH.m3u8) (3:25)  _Published 2017-07-25. John McCain, in his return to the Senate chamber following a brain cancer diagnosis, vowed not to vote for the Republican health care bill in its current form._ --- Jul 27, 2023 10:19 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [John McCain Is Stopping Medical Treatment for Brain Cancer](/video/q0D9lRKq/) ### John McCain Is Stopping Medical Treatment for Brain Cancer [John McCain Will Return to the Senate on Tuesday](/video/FYUjXobZ/) ### John McCain Will Return to the Senate on Tuesday [John McCain Has Been Diagnosed With Brain Cancer](/video/mzhqtWSH/) ### John McCain Has Been Diagnosed With Brain Cancer --- ## Transcript Let's the leave the history of who shot first to the historians. I suspect they'll find we all conspired in our decline, either by deliberate actions or neglect. We've all played some role in it. Certainly I have. Sometimes I've let my passion rule my reason. Sometimes I've made it harder to find common ground. Because of something harsh I said to a colleague. Sometimes I wanted to win more for the sake of winning than to achieve a contested policy. Our system doesn't depend on our nobility. It accounts for our imperfections and gives us an order to our individual strivings. That has helped make ours the most powerful and prosperous society on earth. It is our responsibility to preserve that, even when it requires us to do something less satisfying than winning. I hope we can again rely on humility, on our need to co- operate. On our dependence on each other, to learn how to trust each other again and by so doing better serve the people who elected us. Stop listening to the bombastic loud mouths on the radio and television and the internet. To hell with them. [ APPLAUSE ] They don't want anything done for the public good. Our incapacity is their livelihood. Let's trust each other. Let's return to regular order. We've been spinning our wheels on too many important issues because we keep trying to find a way to win without help from across the aisle. That's an approach that's been employed by both sides mandating legislation from the top down without any support from the other side, with all the parliamentary maneuvers that requires. We are getting nothing done, my friends. We are getting nothing done. Our health care insurance system is a mess. We all know it. Those who support Obama care and those who oppose it. Something has to be done. We Republicans have looked for a way to end it and replace it with something else without paying a terrible political price. We haven't found it yet and I'm not sure we will. All we've managed to do is make more popular a policy that wasn't very popular when we started trying to get rid of it. I voted for the motion to proceed to allow debate to continue on amendments we offered. I will not vote for this bill as it is today. It's a shell of a bill right now, we all know that. This country is big, boisterous, brawling, intemperate, restless, striving, daring, beautiful, bountiful, brave, good, and magnificent country needs us to help it thrive. That responsibility is more important than any of our personal interests or political affiliation. We are the servants of a great nation It's a privilege to serve with all of you. I mean it. Many of you have reached out in the last few days with your concern and your prayers and it means a lot to me. It really does. I've had so many people say such nice things about me recently and I think some of you must have me confused with someone else. [ LAUGH ] I appreciate it though. 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