South Carolina Statehouse Blog

Yesterday, I conducted an interview with Representative Anton Gunn about the 2009-2010 South Carolina Budget (H. 3560) as it was passed by the House of Representatives. In the interview, I asked the following five questions:

What is your overall impression of the budget passed by the House of Representatives? (0:09)
Was there anything that didn’t make it […]

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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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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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Yesterday, Representative Nathan Ballentine agreed to conduct a video interview about the passage of the budget cuts (H. 5300) during this past week’s Emergency Session. In this interview, I asked the following four questions:

How do you, in general, feel about the budget cuts? (0:13)
Is there any one thing that you would have liked to change […]

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This week, South Carolina’s General Assembly is meeting to discuss the budget shortfall and in particular, cuts that can be made to the budget. Representative Michael Pitts agreed to give me an interview about his thoughts on the budget cut bill, H. 5300.
To start off, I asked Representative Pitts what are some of the […]

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