Senate News

March 2025 Updates

Last Friday, I was privileged to attend my third F-16 Fighting Falcon delivery ceremony at Lockheed Martin – with delivery this time to Taiwan. (Pictured with me at the event…

February 2025 Updates

The longer you have been in the Senate, the more responsibility you are given. I have been named Co-Chair of the Senate Education Committee by Chairman Greg Hembree, and Chairman of the…

January 2025 Updates

Tomorrow, the 126th General Assembly of South Carolina begins the first year of a two-year session. This year, we have thirteen new members in the Senate, which happens to be…

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Special Report
Thank you to everyone in District 8 who cast their ballot for me. Our district has approximately 112,000 constituents, and over 62,000 people voted in this election. The vote belongs…

July 2024 Updates

Do You Remember?Greenville County Schools were closed on Monday, March 30, 1981. I was a junior in high school, and that afternoon a group of us went to our church…

June 2024 Updates

We adjourned the second session of the 125th South Carolina General Assembly pursuant to the provisions of S1192 – the Sine Die Resolution.  This resolution outlines the reasons we can be called back…

April 2024 Updates

For those of you who have not had the opportunity to visit me in Columbia, I sit on the back row of the Republican side of the chamber. This gives…

March 2024 Updates

Back in 2006 (long before running for the Senate had ever entered my mind), I was nominated and appointed as the business representative to the Upstate Judicial Merit Selection Citizens…