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U.S. Senate approves tax credits for companies that hire veterans

By | 11.11.11 | 11:27 am | More from The Iowa Independent

In a rare bipartisan effort, members of the U.S. Senate voted Thursday, before returning to their districts to attend Veterans Day ceremonies, to approve a portion of Obama’s American Jobs Act that provides tax breaks to companies that hire veterans.

DeMint injects anti-abortion measure into ag/commerce funding bill

By | 10.20.11 | 10:55 am

Image by Matt MahurinCongress targets abortion for the second week in a row on Thursday, when the Senate is expected to debate an amendment recently filed by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) to an appropriations bill related to agriculture, commerce, science, transportation and housing and urban development. DeMint’s amendment, if successful, would bar More…

GOP kingmakers push presidential candidates to reject family-based immigration system

By | 09.07.11 | 1:02 pm

Image by: Matt MahurinCandidates who attended the Labor Day Palmetto Freedom Forum in Columbia, S.C., were asked to endorse unprecedented reforms to the existing U.S. immigration system. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who co-hosted the event along with Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and president of the American Principles Project Robert George, offered questions about More…

NOM awards Bachmann ‘A’ for abortion views in S.C. presidential forum

By | 09.06.11 | 12:49 pm

Monday’s much-anticipated Palmetto Freedom Forum, held in Columbia, S.C., was an opportunity for the country’s leading anti-gay-marriage group, National Organization for Marriage (NOM), to continue forcing candidates to articulate their positions on same-sex marriage at the federal level; however, the issue that really stole the show was abortion, More…

Romney reverses course, will attend DeMint forum

By | 08.31.11 | 11:48 am

The Hill reports that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has decided to attend the Labor Day presidential forum in Columbia, S.C., hosted by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and The American Principles Project.

Upcoming DeMint presidential forum co-chaired by NOM founder

By | 08.30.11 | 2:24 pm

The GOP presidential forum Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) will host in Columbia, S.C., on Labor Day will be co-hosted by the original founding chair of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), which since the successful Proposition 8 campaign of 2008 in California, has raised and spent millions of dollars More…

Romney’s decision to forgo DeMint forum spells out more of his 2012 strategy

By | 08.25.11 | 4:53 pm

On Wednesday, Mitt Romney’s campaign announced that the former Massachusetts governor would not be attending a presidential forum hosted by Sen. Jim Demint (R-S.C.). A spokesperson for the Romney campaign told the Washington Post that Romney would be concentrating most of his efforts on campaigning in New Hampshire.

Fla. Gov. Scott, Senate hopeful Hasner going to RedState event in S.C. this weekend

By | 08.11.11 | 11:59 am | More from The Florida Independent

Gov. Rick Scott and GOP Senate candidate Adam Hasner will speak at the RedState Gathering 2011 in Charleston, S.C., this weekend, an event for conservative politicians and organizations who are looking toward the 2012 elections. #

DeMint will prioritize viability and economic issues, not immigration, say S.C. GOP operatives

By | 07.27.11 | 5:05 pm

In the South Carolina GOP presidential primary, no endorsement is considered more important than that of Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.). Slate and former Washington Independent reporter Dave Weigel identifies him as one of the “Three Kingmakers” in the early GOP contests, along with Iowa’s Bob Vander Plaats and More…

Family Research Council decries immorality of federal deficit, defends its own budget gap

By | 06.28.11 | 5:38 pm

The focus at conservative Christian policy group Family Research Council this past month has been on fiscal policy — on the federal government’s and on its own. While the $14 trillion federal deficit has been characterized as a moral issue — one caused by irresponsibility and spending addiction — FRC More…