The Hill’s Congressional BlogOctober 17, 2012 By Frank Knapp, Jr., president and CEO, South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce One of the highlights of last night’s presidential debate was moderator Candy Crowley’s real-time fact-checking about when President Barrack Obama first used the word “terror” in reference to the murders in Benghazi. We needed such […]
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Greenville OnLine.comOct 12, 2012 Written by Rhonda Abrams– Gannett During election season, everyone loves small business. President Barack Obama loves small business. GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney loves small business. During the first debate, they mentioned the words “small business” 25 times. But where do the candidates stand on small-business issues? Of course, small
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Candidate Mitt Romney has been criticized for his past statement that he likes to fire people. Apparently the same holds true for large yellow birds. But as much as Romney’s comment of defunding PBS resulted in the biggest twitter explosion of last night’s debate, it was the GOP candidate’s denial that federal tax law gives
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Following up on the revealing Mitt Romney emails regarding the then Massachusetts Governor’s support of the individual health insurance mandate, the Associated Press has a story out today about the only state that does mandates its citizens to have health insurance or pay a tax penalty—Massachusetts. Under the Seatlepi headline, “ In Mass., individual mandate
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At yesterday’s Palmetto Freedom Forum in Columbia, SC, the candidate who will never be President, New Gingrich, made the most important observation about the economy. He said that if we don’t put in place an effective action now (not when he’s President in 2014), we are in danger of going back to a severe recession. The
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Of all the upcoming GOP Presidential debates, the most important will be the one today in Columbia, SC. The national media isn’t even mentioning this 6-candidate event both mainly because it is not really a traditional debate. But the difference is what makes it more important. Each candidate—Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Michele Bachman, Ron Paul,
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