South Carolina Statehouse Blog

“While I cast my vote today to make the necessary changes that ensure benefits continue to flow to our unemployed, it should not be forgotten that earlier this year two very real opportunities to make changes to our employment system were missed, once with the defeated Employment Security Commission reform bill, which would have made […]

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Retroactive solution covers all unemployed in danger of losing this federal benefit
Columbia, SC) - Today, the South Carolina House of Representatives convened in a special legislative session to address a fix to our state’s unemployment benefits so that thousands of out-of-work South Carolinians will not lose access to these federal funds and have their unemployment […]

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Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter introduced H.3940 in April to fix the current
situation with the ESC.
[Columbia, SC -] House Democrats are glad that the Republican
leadership has decided to call a special legislative session to ensure
that thousands of unemployed South Carolinians receive the extended
unemployment benefits from the federal government.
S.C. Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter, D-Orangeburg, introduced H.3940 April 22
with a […]

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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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