 On the other hand, it garnered considerable sympathetic coverage in the national media, and from 1995 on, "maverick Republican" became a label frequently applied to McCain in stories.He had used the term himself, and one of the chapters in his 2002 memoir "Worth the Fighting For" would be titled "Maverick".The first version of the McCain-Feingold Act was introduced into the Senate in September 1995; it was filibustered in 1996 and never came to a vote.