The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conducted nine inspections at nine Food and Cosmetics companies from South Carolina in the second quarter of 2024.
At a nominations hearing today, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, scrutinized the records of President Biden’s nominees for financial regulator positions. Senator Scott criticized current FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg's leadership and highlighted issues within the agency's workplace culture.
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) announced his intention to work with colleagues to condition funding for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in the next appropriations bill and put a hold on all ODNI-affiliated nominations. This action is in response to ODNI's failure to submit multiple assessments of Iran’s nuclear capabilities to Congress, as mandated by law.
U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) has appointed Charles Cogar to serve as his Chief of Staff. Cogar formerly served as Senator Scott’s Legislative Director for 10 years.
U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) joined Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Committee, in penning a letter with 30 of their Senate Republican colleagues to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan voicing their objection to a California climate change regulation targeting railroads. The new restriction would significantly burden commerce and threatens one of America’s cleanest and most efficient modes of transportation—rail.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) joined his Republican colleagues in the South Carolina delegation in sending a letter to Biden administration officials expressing their concerns over the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) proposed changes to the North Atlantic Right Whale Vessel Strike Reduction Rule.
In his opening remarks at this week's hearing with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, addressed the impacts of Bidenomics on American families. Senator Scott also urged Chair Powell to enhance transparency in the financial regulators' rulemaking process and reiterated his call for a re-proposal of the current Basel III Endgame proposal.
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and U.S. Representative Russell Fry (R-South Carolina-07) have led the South Carolina Republican congressional delegation in addressing concerns to the Biden Administration regarding the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) proposed changes to the North Atlantic Right Whale Vessel Strike Reduction Rule.
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has joined a coalition of 26 states in filing a brief before the U.S. Supreme Court, challenging the Hillsborough County Transit Authority’s no-religious-speech advertising policy. The coalition contends that this policy infringes on the First Amendment rights of Young Israel of Tampa, a Jewish synagogue, which sought to advertise on public transportation in Tampa, Florida.
Governor Henry McMaster, Lieutenant Governor Pamela S. Evette, and First Lady Peggy McMaster have released their schedules for the week of July 8, 2024.
As President Biden revealed new rules regarding Title IX protections in April of 2024, which redefined “sex” to include “gender-identity,” an analysis by Palmetto State News shows that South Carolina is one of 25 states that ban boys from playing in girls’ high school sports.
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has filed an emergency application with the United States Supreme Court to halt the SAVE student loan repayment plan. "The Supreme Court already ruled in another case that the Biden administration doesn’t have the authority to waive hundreds of billions of student loan repayments," said Attorney General Wilson. "But President Biden is trying to go around that and do it anyway. This is classic grandstanding by the President of the United States. It would mean all taxpayers will be saddled with paying off billions of dollars of these...
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Nathaniel Scott Raasch, 26, of Mount Pleasant, S.C., on six charges connected to the sexual exploitation of minors. Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators with the Mount Pleasant Police Department made the arrest. Investigators with the Attorney General's Office, Homeland Security Investigations, and Charleston County Sheriff's Office, all members of the state's ICAC Task Force, assisted with the investigation.
Governor Henry McMaster announced line item vetoes for the FY 2024-2025 state budget at a Statehouse news conference. The budget includes 292 proposals from the governor's executive budget, an increase of more than 126 from two years ago, totaling $2.4 billion. These proposals encompass an income tax cut, teacher and law enforcement pay raises, a college tuition freeze, and investments in bridges and workforce development through SC Nexus and South Carolina Workforce Industry Needs Scholarships.