The Heritage Foundation has taken some hits for projecting 50 years out with its projection that the cost of government services for undocumented immigrants becoming citizens will far exceed the tax revenue they contribute to the economy — by about...
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The U.S.-Mexico border on February 26, 2013 near Sonoita, Arizona.
Low-IQ Immigrants: Not Heritage Policy
Jim DeMint’s Sugar-Free Taste of Immigration Bill: ‘Like Obamacare’
Jim DeMint this week will put a price tag on the Senate’s immigration bill. Bloomberg’s Heidi Przybyla reported he would last week. .@jimdemint: Proposed #immigration reform bill would cost U.S. trillions of dollars in the long term. #ThisWeek — This...
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Vice President Joe Biden at the South Carolina Democratic Party's Jefferson Jackson Dinner May 3, 2013, in Columbia, SC.
Cruz, Biden: Early Eyes on Second-Tier Race, New Attacks, Old School
Republican Ted Cruz, as our friends at Politico point out this morning, will be roughly the same age as Democrat Joe Biden was when he launched his first campaign for president in 1987, should the freshman senator from Texas declare...
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Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford addresses supporters in Charleston, S.C., on March 19, 2013, after advancing to the GOP primary runoff in a race for a vacant South Carolina congressional seat.
Mark Sanford’s ‘Ping-Pong Match’
Updated at 5:25 pm EDT Mark Sanford played “a ping-pong match” in his gut. He won, deciding to go for an open congressional seat after bowing out of public life a few years back following an extramarital affair that coined...
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Rep. Tim Scott hakes hands with House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy in Washington.
Tim Scott: South Carolina’s Odyssey
Ironies abound with Rep. Tim Scott of South Carolina set to become just the fifth black to serve in the U.S. Senate since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era — and only the second who won’t be representing Illinois. Scott, named today by Gov....
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Sen. Jim DeMint at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington.
Washington Daybook: DeMint Sees Obama Win
President Barack Obama may be gaining the upper hand in negotiations with Republicans over avoiding the fiscal cliff. Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican, said this morning that a “political trophy” is within Obama’s grasp. “He’s going to get...
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Senator Jim DeMint in his office on Dec. 6, 2012 on Capitol Hill.
DeMint’s New Deficit Challenge
Sen. Jim DeMint, who has spent his career in Congress railing against big spending, may have plenty of opportunities to do the same in his new job as president of the Heritage Foundation. The group ran a $7.9 million deficit...
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Tea Party supporters cheer at the Tea Party Unity Rally in Tampa, Florida.
Tea Party Inc.: Think Tanks, PAC Roil
The Republicans’ anti-tax Tea Party wing, which failed in its goal to oust President Barack Obama and the Senate Democratic majority, is rising to leadership positions in policy and activist groups that have guided the party’s direction for years. South...
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Rep. Tim Scott makes brief remarks with fellow GOP freshmen after a meeting with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner at the U.S. Capitol on June 2, 2011.
DeMint Departure Could Seat Black Senator: Tim Scott
For all the progress in U.S. race relations since Martin Luther King Jr. kicked the civil rights movement into gear in the late 1950s — changes underscored by Barack Obama’s presidency — the paucity of black Senate members stands out like an...
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Sen. Jim DeMint arrives for a closed-door meeting by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Nov. 13, 2012.
Sanders Silent on DeMint Departure
Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, the rightest of the right, is leaving the Senate. “It’s time for me to pass the torch to someone else and take on a new role in the fight for America’s future,” said DeMint,...
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