South Carolina Statehouse Blog

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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Today, the 118th General Assembly will be meeting for the first time this session. It is our hopes here at SC Statehouse Blog to start getting interviews and covering stories immediately. Whereas last year’s session was somewhat of a test run, this year, we should have everything ready to go from the beginning.
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Today, Representative James E. Smith agreed to conduct a video interview about the 1st session of the 118th General Assembly that convenes on January 13, 2009. In this interview, I asked the following four questions:

What do you hope to accomplish this session? (0:09)
What do you think the General Assembly’s main focus will be this session? […]

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