Bipartisan Bill Seeks to Block NIH Funding of Animal Experiments
Animal Rights
Bipartisan Bill Seeks to Block NIH Funding of Animal Experiments
2024-04-11 18:35:06
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan bill introduced in the House on Thursday would amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit federal funding for medical research that involves experiments on dogs and cats. If passed and signed into law, the Preventing... Read More

Court Says Congressional Race Can Be Held With Unlawful Map
2024 Elections
Court Says Congressional Race Can Be Held With Unlawful Map
2024-03-29 20:15:11
by Dan McCue

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A three-judge panel in South Carolina ruled that this year’s congressional races in the state can be carried out using a map they have already held is unconstitutional. In what surely must be an exceptional ruling, the... Read More

House Passes Mace Bill on Fed Job Requirements
Congress
House Passes Mace Bill on Fed Job Requirements
2023-10-03 17:34:10
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — The House gave its overwhelming bipartisan support Monday night to a bill aimed at modernizing federal cybersecurity job requirements to foster a more diverse and competitive workforce. The bill, which was introduced by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., and... Read More

Rooted in South Carolina Soil, Could Mace’s Future Be a US Senate Seat?
Congress
Rooted in South Carolina Soil, Could Mace’s Future Be a US Senate Seat?
2023-08-22 16:54:10
by Dan McCue

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. — From the outset it was clear, Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., was in her element. The featured guest on a panel hosted by the nonprofit Concerned Veterans for America aboard the U.S.S. Yorktown, the decommissioned aircraft carrier... Read More

House Members Say Legalizing Cannabis Could Be Winning Issue for GOP
Congress
House Members Say Legalizing Cannabis Could Be Winning Issue for GOP
2023-04-21 19:06:59
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — A pair of conservative House members on Thursday said the GOP needs to wake up to the fact that the legalization of cannabis could be a winning issue for the party in 2024 and beyond. The setting for... Read More

House Panel Demands Stronger Cybersecurity in Wake of Health Records Breach
Cybersecurity
House Panel Demands Stronger Cybersecurity in Wake of Health Records Breach
2023-04-19 21:10:57
by Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON — A month after cyberthieves looted a local health insurance database making off with the sensitive personal records of members of Congress and thousands of others, a member of a congressional panel looking into the incident on Wednesday declared... Read More

Cuellar Leads Bipartisan Effort to Slash Wasteful Spending
Congress
Cuellar Leads Bipartisan Effort to Slash Wasteful Spending
2023-03-31 20:35:09
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, is leading a bipartisan and bicameral effort to identify and eliminate wasteful agency spending and save taxpayers money. The vehicle for his effort is the Identifying and Eliminating Wasteful Programs Act, which Cuellar introduced... Read More

House Narrowly Approves New Rules Package
Congress
House Narrowly Approves New Rules Package
2023-01-10 16:35:39
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — House Republicans pushed through an overhaul of the rules for the new Congress on Monday, overcoming the concerns of some members of their own party regarding concessions Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., made last week to finally become speaker.... Read More

What They’re Saying About the End of Title 42 Expulsions
Immigration
What They’re Saying About the End of Title 42 Expulsions
2022-04-06 23:02:49
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration last week announced it will wind down the pandemic-era order known as Title 42 in late May.  Though always controversial, the decision to do away with what were, in essence, summary deportations in the name... Read More

Trump Endorses Arrington, Fry Before Shivering Crowd of Hundreds
Political News
Trump Endorses Arrington, Fry Before Shivering Crowd of Hundreds
2022-03-13 22:01:37
by Dan McCue

FLORENCE, S.C. — Former President Donald Trump has certainly drawn bigger crowds, but those who gathered to see him at Florence Regional Airport Saturday night quite possibly made up in enthusiasm what they lacked in numbers. Trump, still popular in... Read More

Kilmer, Mace, Seek to Fund Tiny Homes to Tackle Veteran Homelessness
Veterans
Kilmer, Mace, Seek to Fund Tiny Homes to Tackle Veteran Homelessness
2022-01-04 20:16:07
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan initiative crafted by Reps. Nancy Mace and Derek Kilmer would provide much needed grant money to support the construction of tiny homes for homeless veterans. Six years after the Veterans Community Project started building tiny homes... Read More

Rep. Mace Home Vandalized Over Memorial Day Weekend
Crime
Rep. Mace Home Vandalized Over Memorial Day Weekend
2021-06-02 12:07:45
by TWN Staff

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., woke up Monday morning to discover her home was vandalized with spray-painted insults and profanity on Memorial Day.In a post on Twitter in which she included several photos of the graffiti, Mace said... Read More

Insurrection Marks Moment of Reckoning for Republicans
Congress
Insurrection Marks Moment of Reckoning for Republicans

The insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was both stunning and predictable, the result of a Republican Party that has repeatedly enabled President Donald Trump's destructive behavior. When Trump was a presidential candidate in 2016, Republican officials ignored his call to... Read More

New Members of Congress Begin Orientation
Congress
New Members of Congress Begin Orientation
2020-11-13 21:25:17
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON - They came from Texas and Colorado and New York and New Mexico. Some came in family SUVs, others in taxi cabs. But what they had in common as they arrived at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill on a... Read More

SC-01: Nancy Mace (R)
House Watch
SC-01: Nancy Mace (R)
2020-10-31 00:31:33
by TWN Staff

About Mace: State Representative Nancy Mace is a single mom who grew up in the Lowcountry, works there and is raising her family there. She has a 100% rating with Conservation Voters of South Carolina. She grew up in Goose... Read More

Joe Cunningham Launches First TV Ad, Kicking Off Re-Election Campaign
2020 Elections
Joe Cunningham Launches First TV Ad, Kicking Off Re-Election Campaign
2020-07-13 13:22:28
by Dan McCue

Nineteen months ago a Democrat who had never run for elected office stunned the political intelligentsia and won a U.S. House seat when barely anyone thought he would succeed. South Carolina's 1st Congressional District, snaking along the southeastern coastline of... Read More

As Primary Approaches, South Carolina Republicans Vows to Return Congressional District to the GOP
Primaries
As Primary Approaches, South Carolina Republicans Vows to Return Congressional District to the GOP
2020-05-29 18:32:00
by Dan McCue

CHARLESTON, S.C. - The theme of the contest is most succinctly spelled out on the campaign signs that have appeared this week in South Carolina's 1st Congressional District, like so many clumps of blooming Black-Eyed Susans. "Take Back the Lowcountry,"... Read More

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