 He was one of only five senators to vote against the Telecommunications Act of 1996, on the grounds that it put the economic interests of corporations ahead of those of consumers.McCain became chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee in 1995, and would hold that position into 1997.McCain's visibility was increased by the 1995 publication of Robert Timberg's well-received "The Nightingale's Song", a joint biography of five graduates from the Naval Academy who had served in Vietnam and whose subsequent public fame and problems illuminated the role of Vietnam and the military in American life.