 In the final quarter of 2002, McCain also proposed last minute language to amend the pending Federal anti-spam legislation that became known as the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003.McCain's office tapped anti-spam expert and attorney Anne P. Mitchell to work with his office on the language of the amendment.The McCain Amendment, as it came to be known, was included in the version of CAN-SPAM which became Federal law on January 1, 2003.