South Carolina Statehouse Blog

Today, Senator Mick Mulvaney agreed to discuss S. 424, also known as the ‘Sovereignty Resolution.’ The following are the questions asked in the video.

 What is the health care amendment to S. 424, otherwise known as the Sovereignty Resolution? (0:16)
Why do you support this amendment? (0:44)
What will happen if both the amended version of the Sovereignty […]

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Today, Governor Mark Sanford held a press conference to clarify his position on the federal stimulus money. Senator Tom Davis and Senator Greg Ryberg also made comments. The following is the press conference in its entirety:

Also, here is the Q&A session held immediately after the prepared remarks:

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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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Across the nation, many states are looking into adopting constitutional amendments that would make it a constitutional right for secret ballot elections to be held in the work place. South Carolina is leading the country in this regard with H. 3305, a bill whose main sponsor and leading proponent is Representative Eric Bedingfield.
To start, H. […]

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