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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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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With the current condition of the economy, many states, including South Carolina, are taking matters into their own hands. Just a couple weeks back, Representative Michael Pitts and Representative Jeff Duncan conducted a trade mission to Germany. The goal of this mission was to meet with several businesses to discuss their future operations in South […]

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The argument about who has the right to possess a gun has been going on since the creation of the second amendment. An especially hot topic in recent years has been handgun possession and in particular the issue of what should be the legal age of possession. For the citizens of South Carolina, a consensus […]

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This week, the debate about whether or not the list of concealed-weapon permit holders should be accessible through the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) is taking place in the South Carolina Statehouse. A bill, House Bill 3528, would amend the current law in a couple of ways that would restrict the access to the list. […]

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