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John McCain Set To Make A Dramatic Return Amid Political Storm

The Arizona senator, recently diagnosed with brain cancer, will be in the Senate Tuesday for what's expected to be a close health care vote. But it's unclear what exactly senators will be voting on.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., answers questions from reporters on Capitol Hill earlier this month. He makes his return to the Senate for the first time since being diagnosed with brain cancer last week. / Win McNamee / Getty Images

It was just five days ago that John McCain, the longtime Arizona senator, two-time presidential candidate and perhaps America's most famous former prisoner of war, was diagnosed with a deadly form of brain cancer.

And yet the Republican lawmaker is set to make a dramatic return to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday for a key vote on health care.

"Look forward to returning to Senate tomorrow," McCain tweeted Monday night.

It will be a remarkable moment, to see this man, whom his daughter described poetically as a "warrior at dusk," take his place again in the "world's greatest deliberative body," where he has represented his southwestern

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