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“Fiscal Fitness” Agenda Passes Committee, Goes to Full Senate
Columbia, S.C. – Senator Glenn McConnell’s “Fiscal Fitness” agenda passed committee today and heads to the full South Carolina Senate for a vote. The agenda encompasses several legislative initiatives, including a state constitutional spending cap, a deficit prevention act and a trust fund protection act. The reforms will improve government function and save South Carolina [...]
Statement Regarding Presidential Primary Lawsuit
(Columbia, SC) Senator McConnell provided the following statement concerning the lawsuit filed to prevent the State Election Commission from conducting the 2012 Presidential Primary. “I continue to believe that the express language contained in South Carolina Code Section 7-11-20 is unambiguous and that it only gives the State Election Commission the power to conduct the [...]
McConnell Announces Fiscal Fitness Subcommittee
Columbia – Senator Glenn McConnell, President Pro Tempore of the SC Senate, has named the members of the subcommittee tasked to consider his “Fiscal Fitness” agenda that consists of legislative initiatives to place a Constitutional cap on state spending, conduct a streamlining review of state government, enact a taxpayer fairness act, a deficit prevention act, [...]
New 7th District could divide area
Source COLUMBIA — Where the new 7th Congressional District will be drawn is still up in the air. The state picked up the extra seat in Congress because of the growing population, but South Carolina lawmakers cannot decide where it should go. One plan puts the new seat in Horry County, along the North Carolina [...]
McConnell Responds to Haley assertions
(COLUMBIA, SC) – Following the decision by the S.C. Supreme Court to void Governor Haley’s recent executive order, Senator Glenn McConnell sent a letter to the members of the South Carolina Senate informing them that the Senate would be returning on June 14, 2011 as scheduled, pursuant to the provisions of the unanimously adopted Sine [...]
