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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Yesterday, Governor Mark Sanford along with State Senator Tom Davis and Policy Council President Ashley Landess discussed the Policy Council’s findings concerning the South Carolina budget.
The first two videos are the remarks made by Landess, Davis, and Gov. Sanford followed a third video which is the media’s Question & Answer section. Note: A PDF version […]

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Today, Governor Mark Sanford held a press conference with members of the law enforcement community and advocates for a stronger DUI law to talk about the new measure that take effect tomorrow, February 10, at noon.
The following is the press conference in its entirety split up into two parts:
Part 1:

Part 2:

Here are some facts/statistics from […]

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Today, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford held a press conference on the current situation with South Carolina’s Employment Security Commission. The following two videos are of that press conference in its entirety. The first video is of Gov. Sanford’s prepared remarks and the second video is of the question and answer session right after he […]

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Today, Representative Jeff Duncan agreed to conduct a video interview concerning the EFA Study Committee on which he is the Chairman. In this short interview, I asked the following four questions:

What education problems is this committee trying to address? (0:12)
How are the recent budget cuts going to affect the findings of this committee? (0:56)
What are […]

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