Jim DeMint News

Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint on Wednesday blasted the sweeping immigration bill being debated in the U.S. Senate, while one of the bill's sponsors - Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona - said it would boost the nation's economic growth.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has calculated that the immigration reform bill under consideration in the Senate, S.744, would lower the federal budget deficit by $197 billion over the coming decade, and by $700 billion in 2024 to 2033.

U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford called into the FITS home office this week to hello - and to make a point regarding his recent vote on a controversial flood insurance program .

Jim DeMint's new hard-right outfit is posing a threat to Republicans considering a 'yes' on immigration-reform legislation.

Republicans are "in a demographic death spiral" and will fail in their effort to win the presidency if the party blocks an immigration overhaul, a leading GOP senator said Sunday.

If you find that declaration sad, or possibly slanderous, you probably have fond memories of "the way we were" during a supposedly kinder and gentler time before the civil rights movement, women's lib and cellphones.

And on Monday, WTMA radio's Tara Servatius read an email from a listener who called our senior senator - brace yourselves, sensitive readers - “a Democrat.” Their most heated recent case against Lindsey Graham: As a member of the Senate “Gang of Eight,” he's pushing an immigration reform bill that they deem lacking on ... (more)

Norman Rockwell is dead. So is his America. If you find that declaration sad, or possibly slanderous, you probably have fond memories of "the way we were" during a supposedly kinder and gentler time before the civil rights movement, women's lib and cellphones.

Candidates and third party groups spent about $7.3 million in the race for South Carolina's 1st District congressional seat earlier this year.

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Claiming they had "inadvertently" published "before it was ready for publication," The New York Times published and then yanked a story about Anthony Weiner titled: "For Women in Weiner Scandal, Indignity Lingers."

This weekA s Telegram is a highly charged debate about America and security. Tim Stanley says the information released by Edward Snowden shows an Obama administration exercising "weird and creepy" control over its citizens.

Under former Republican Sen. Jim DeMint, the Heritage Foundation is wading into the debate over immigration through advocacy, not research.

Representatives of aircraft manufacturer Boeing are privately bragging that the company has secured U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford's support for the crony capitalist U.S. Export-Import Bank , which in addition to picking winners and losers in the marketplace provides foreign competitors with an unfair competitive advantage over American companies.

During his first six-year stint in the U.S. House of Representatives , Mark Sanford earned a reputation as a bona fide taxpayer hero who was willing to put the interests of all American taxpayers ahead of the interests of a narrow subset of his constituents.

The chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party resigned Saturday morning to take a job with the Republican National Committee, according to the party's executive director.

A strong Farm Bill showing in the Senate Thursday clears the way for a final vote on passage Monday evening and puts added pressure on the House to move ahead this month with its own five-year plan to revamp major commodity programs.

The Heritage Foundation, a once respectable conservative think tank, seems to have wandered badly off-course since former Republican Sen. Jim DeMint took the helm.

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Senate Conservatives Action will launch Wednesday the second in a series of three TV ads in Arkansas against Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor.