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Please support the South Carolina Citizenship Defense Act (S.111), which I introduced earlier this year. This Arizona-style illegal immigration bill is designed to further strengthen the immigration reforms enacted in 2008. By joining this effort you are voicing your concerns about the negative impact illegal immigration is having on local and state resources. Make your voice known in Columbia, as this important matter is being discussed in the South Carolina Senate. Please sign our petition if you agree with the following statement: “I want to remove any incentive illegal aliens have for coming to South Carolina by supporting the enactment

CNN’s John King spoke with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) about the crisis in Egypt, federal spending, immigration and much more. This interview will air tonight on John King, USA – 7pm ET. A full transcript is below the jump. MANDATORY CREDIT: JOHN KING, USA FULL TRANSCRIPT JOHN KING, HOST, “JOHN KING USA”: Senator Graham, I wanted to get your sense of how you think the president is handling this crisis with Egypt. And in doing so, I want to ask you to help me break a tie. I want you to listen here to the 2008 Republican ticket, Senator John

A state Senator has filed a bill giving a state health care agency more flexibility to cut its budget and close a $228 million budget deficit. Senate Majority Leader Harvey Peeler, R-Cherokee, filed a bill suspending budget rules that restrict cuts the Department of Health and Human Services may approve. Peeler’s bill would allow the agency to reduce payments to doctors and hospitals; require use of generic cancer, HIV/AIDS and mental health drugs; reduce chiropractic treatment and reduce fees to dispense prescriptions. The changes would save at least $11.5 million. DHHS has long asked lawmakers for the ability to cut

Columbia, SC – January 26 – South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Karen Floyd today issued the following statement on the state House’s passage of the Voter ID bill: “This commonsense reform will go a long way toward ensuring that South Carolina’s voting process is both secure and accessible,” Floyd said. “In this technological day and age there is simply no logical reason to not add this additional safeguard to our voting process. Secure elections are a fundamental precept of democracy, and I thank Speaker Harrell, Majority Leader Bingham, and bill sponsor Rep. Alan Clemmons for their work on this bill.

(Columbia, SC) – Today, by a vote of 74 to 45, the South Carolina House of Representatives again passed a bill (H. 3003) that will help prevent fraud and secure our state’s election process by incorporating the use of picture identification in voting. Modeled after Voter ID plans passed by other states and upheld as constitutional by our nation’s highest court, this bill employs technology used by people every day to secure our elections all while keeping voting simple, safe and easy for every citizen.   House Speaker Bobby Harrell, “The heart of democracy is the right to vote. If