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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks while Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano listens.

Congressman Jeff Duncan of South Carolina's 3rd District announced the winner of the 2013 Congressional Art Competition.

There was no jeering. Except for less than half-a-dozen protesters on the street outside, there were few signs that nearly 600 students and faculty had petitioned against Scott's role as commencement speaker just a week before.

U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, center, shares a photo-op with a local family at Dunburks in Easley Thursday afternoon.

A bill to reform the Census Bureau by repealing its authority to "conduct mandatory and invasive" surveys has been placed in the hopper by Rep.

It wasn't even close, despite some polling that indicated a tight race between disgraced former Governor and Representative Mark Sanford and Elizabeth Colbert Busch, sister of the comedian Stephen Colbert.

Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is heading back to Congress - and that may not be good news for House GOP leadership.

As they've done several times in the past, a few hundred tea party-inspired activists attempted to seat a convention chairman who would help them remove Graham from the party, but their efforts failed when party leaders declined to recognize their motions and moved on with the day's proceedings.

Because only liberals should speak at graduation ceremonies, I suppose. If it wasn't this bill, they'd have found another excuse.

U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, center, shares a photo-op with a local family at Dunburks in Easley Thursday afternoon.

The American economy is still struggling to establish consistent forward momentum in 2013, but one segment that's experiencing "rapid fire" growth is the gun industry.

An esteemed congressman from that forward-looking state, South Carolina, wants the U.S. Census Business out of the business of measuring the American economy: Rep.

In this week's Talkin' Tigers , host Jeff Duncan talks with LSU beat writer Jim Kleinpeter.

A group of lawmakers isn't interested in reducing the deficit or smart reductions to government -- it just wants to cut at all costs.

Two members of South Carolina's congressional delegation are touring part of the Upstate together.

"Reality," Stephen Colbert famously lamented to President Bush in 2006, "has a well-known liberal bias." It is conservatives' perpetual fear that the truth will not set them free that is the driving force behind two House Republican proposals announced this week.

Thinking they're going to deflate an intrusive government overreach into the everyday lives of American citizens, a group of House Republicans introduced a census reform bill last week that would prevent the government from conducting the research necessary to produce monthly unemployment estimates.

A group of Republicans are cooking up legislation that could give President Barack Obama an unintentional assist with disagreeable unemployment numbers -- by eliminating the key economic statistic altogether.

The Huffington Post reports that a group of Republicans are proposing legislation that could give President Obama "an unintentional assist with disagreeable unemployment numbers -- by eliminating the key economic statistic altogether." "The bill, introduced last week by Rep.

In the days of huge federal deficits, sequestration and questions about where every dollar goes, it becomes important for the government to not only save money, but spend it wisely.