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Mark Sanford, the South Carolina Republican governor disgraced by lying to conceal an extramarital affair, has staged a political comeback and will be sworn in as the newest U.S. House member this week.
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Republican Mark Sanford won a special election for a U.S. House seat in South Carolina, staging a political comeback after admitting to an extramarital affair four years ago while he served as the state’s governor.
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Republican Mark Sanford will return to the U.S. House after winning a special election last night in South Carolina, staging a comeback four years after scandal tarnished his image while he served as the state’s governor.
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Senator Lindsey Graham said his hold on Ernest Moniz’s nomination for energy secretary remains in place after a meeting didn’t clear up the lawmaker’s concern over budget cuts to a plutonium processing plant in his state.
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The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved the nomination of Ernest Moniz as secretary of the Energy Department, setting up a confirmation vote by the full Senate.
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For the premiere hearing on a proposed revision of immigration laws in the U.S. Senate, the bill’s advocates made a strategic decision about the first topic of discussion.
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Freshman U.S. Representative Tim Scott was chosen by South Carolina’s governor to replace Republican Senator Jim DeMint, who will leave Congress in January to lead a small-government policy group.
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U.S. budget constraints may signal a short half-life for a South Carolina plutonium processing plant that was supposed to be the nation’s showcase post-Cold War swords-into-plowshares venture.
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As former South Carolina Republican Governor Mark Sanford tries to return to office four years after a scandal, he will be doing so without help from his party’s House political organization.
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Mark Sanford is the former South Carolina governor who became famous for his claims of a sojourn on the Appalachian Trail that led to the admission of an extramarital affair four years ago. Now he’s asking for voters’ forgiveness and a political comeback.