South Carolina Statehouse Blog

Yesterday, I conducted a video interview with Representative Michael Pitts about H. 3509, a concurrent resolution that reaffirms South Carolina’s belief in states’ rights. In the interview, I asked the following five questions:

Could you please explain what H. 3509 declares? (0:13)
What prompted you to create this resolution? (0:40)
Do you see the federal government infringing on […]

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The following is the second part of a 2-part story on Representative James E Smith’s military service in Afghanistan. 
Overall peace and stability in Afghanistan is an end that many would like to see. Reaching this goal is however, going to be a very long, complicated task. In discussing how to stabilize Afghanistan, Representative James Smith […]

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The following is the first part of a 2-part story on Representative James E Smith’s military service in Afghanistan.
Representative James Smith served in the Army for 12 months in Afghanistan. One story in particular sticks out in Representative James Smith’s mind. During a foot patrol in Qolat, he saw young girls walking to school. One […]

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Across the nation, many states are looking into adopting constitutional amendments that would make it a constitutional right for secret ballot elections to be held in the work place. South Carolina is leading the country in this regard with H. 3305, a bill whose main sponsor and leading proponent is Representative Eric Bedingfield.
To start, H. […]

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Election laws are a hot topic this year in many of our country’s state legislatures. South Carolina is no exception with a voter ID bill being just one of the many election oriented bills that will be debated in the coming months. This bill, H. 3418, would require voters to present picture identification at the […]

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