claim: "john mccain fought to rein in fannie and freddie...but democrats blocked the reforms."
author: john mccain
evidence_1: oct 1, 2008 ... mccain-palin 2008 ad: "rein". narrator: john mccain fought to rein in fannie  and freddie. the post says: mccain "pushed for stronger regulation"…"while mr.  obama was notably silent." but, democrats blocked the reforms. loans soared.  then, the bubble burst. and, taxpayers are on the hook for billions.
evidence_2: oct 6, 2008 ... the legislation passed by congress in 2008 enabled treasury secretary henry  paulson to put fannie and freddie into federal conservatorship this ... why can't  john mccain and sarah palin make the points about how the crisis was built  illustrated in the "burning down the house" (with the revised music) ...
evidence_3: sep 17, 2008 ... as it turns out, john mccain did — and partnered with three other senate  republicans to reform the government's involvement in lending three years ago,  after an ... the top three u.s. senators getting big fannie and freddie political  bucks were democrats and number two is senator barack obama.
evidence_4: sep 30, 2008 ... anncr: john mccain fought to rein in fannie and freddie. the post says:  mccain “pushed for stronger regulation”…”while mr. obama was notably silent.”  but, democrats blocked the reforms. loans soared. then, the bubble burst. and,  taxpayers are on the hook for billions. bill clinton knows who is ...
evidence_5: mar 8, 2009 ... in 2003 president bush called congress to rein in fannie and freddie, but  democrats led by frank said everything was fine and no new regulation was ....  including john mccain, tried to rein fannie/freddie in in 2003, 2005 and 2006,  democrats led by frank and senator christopher dodd blocked all ...