South Carolina Statehouse Blog

Columbia, SC - March 26, 2010 - The State Senate gave key approval to legislation authored by Sen. Glenn McConnell that would institute spending caps and a “rainy day” fund. Several years of dwindling revenues and tough decisions on budget cuts have spurred this dramatic change to the state budgeting procedures.
While the federal government […]

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Columbia, S.C. - “Today is a great day for the voters and taxpayers of South Carolina. Almost two full years ago, I introduced this bill because our legislators were voting anonymously more than 90% of the time and the citizens of our state could not see the spending habits of their elected officials,” Haley […]

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Columbia, S.C. - March 25, 2010 - Gov. Mark Sanford today issued the following statement regarding the dual passage in the House and Senate of an Employment Security Commission (ESC) reform bill.
“Both the House and Senate deserve praise today for decisively addressing the lack of accountability at the ESC by way of commonsense restructuring and […]

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Columbia, S.C. - March 25, 2010 - Gov. Mark Sanford today issued the following statement regarding the South Carolina House’s unanimous passage of the Spending Accountability Act that requires on-the-record voting on important legislation.
“We’d commend the House for taking a commonsense step toward greater accountability and transparency today,” Gov. Sanford said. “By taking last year’s […]

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Colleagues Say Rice will lead the fight for Conservative Reform in Washington
EASLEY, SC – State Rep. Don Bowen (R-Anderson) has joined Legislators from across the Third District who have united behind State Rep. Rex Rice (R-Easley) in his run for Congress, it was announced today.
Bowen joins fellow State Representatives Dan Cooper, Mike Gambrell, Davey Hiott, […]

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