Dan Hoover
The Greenville News
Sen. Lindsey Graham found Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged master planner of the 9/11 attacks, at once shocking and surprising, he said, while watching Mohammed on closed-circuit television during a recent trip to Guantanamo Bay.
Graham, who watched Mohammed declare his involvement to a military tribunal in virtually every terrorist attack on [...]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today introduced an amendment along with Senator Jon Kyl (R-Arizona) to the Democratic Budget Resolution extending tax relief for the American taxpayer. The amendment was defeated in the Senate by a vote of 51-47.
The Kyl-Graham amendment:
Established the Death Tax exemption at $5 million and [...]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today voted against the Democratic budget resolution in the Senate Budget Committee. The budget resolution establishes spending levels for Fiscal Year 2008 and lays out budget projections for future years.
“One of my top priorities this year was for Congress to extend the Bush tax cuts,” [...]
James Rosen
The Herald
Sen. Lindsey Graham stands accused of getting too much face time on the Sunday talk shows.
It’s a charge he’s happy to face.
“The fact that I get asked to appear, I consider personally an honor because I get to represent the conservative point of view,” said Graham, a Seneca Republican.
Media Matters in America, [...]
Dan Hoover
Greenville News Blog
If you thought the presidential primary was the only game in town, guess again.
Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is gearing up for a second term run, with no opposition in sight. That is, if you take Republican state Treasurer Thomas Ravenel at his word that he won’t go after Graham in [...]
James Rosen
The State
Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint reacted with outrage Friday to key Democratic lawmakers’ proposals to ship accused terrorist detainees to South Carolina from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Rep. James Moran, a Virginia Democrat, said he hopes to hold hearings on Guantanamo Bay next month with the aim of [...]
Mark Drajem and Brian Faler
Bloomberg
Senator Lindsey Graham, who led an effort to impose across-the-board tariffs on imports from China last year, said the Democratic takeover of Congress will intensify pressure on China to raise the value of its currency.
Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said he is working with the leaders of the Senate Finance [...]
Bill Varner
Bloomberg
A leading Republican supporter of President George W. Bush in the U.S. Senate and a prominent Democratic foreign policy expert differ on whether the “heart and soul” of the war on terrorism is in Iraq or Afghanistan.
“The outcome in Iraq is part of an overall global struggle,” Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina [...]
Appearing at a press conference on July 30, Sen. Graham discusses his Border Security amendment that passed the Senate.
Click here to watch the video.