House of Representatives

Sumter Republican Murrell Smith was reelected Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024, to serve his second two-year term as speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives.

The South Carolina 2025 legislative session starts Jan. 14, 2025.

A federal court has ruled that congressional elections in South Carolina will be held under a map that it had previously deemed unconstitutional and discriminatory against Black voters.

"Events of the last several years have made it clear that the greatness of America is at peril, and the threats to our continued pursuit of ‘a more perfect Union’ are real," U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn said in a Feb. 14, 2024, statement.

The S.C. House voted Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024, to reject Senate-approved changes to the lower chamber's so-called "constitutional carry" bill that would loosen gun restrictions in South Carolina.

After 22 days without a permanent U.S. House speaker, Republicans elected Rep. Mike Johnson on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, to succeed former Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan on Friday, Oct. 20, 2023, lost the third vote this week to be speaker and succeed former Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Norman and other Freedom Caucus members who’d been holding out against McCarthy now support him. Norman’s support unifies South Carolina’s Republican House coalition for McCarthy.

Monday, December 19 - 12:51 p.m. on all News & Talk Stations and 1:00 p.m. on all News & Music Stations.The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is holding a public business meeting on Monday, December 19. The committee is expected to consider possible criminal referrals and to vote on them. This is the committee’s final public event prior to the release of its final report, which is expected later in the week on Wednesday, the 21st.You can watch live video of the event here...

A modest room in the Capitol has been named after the first Black member of the House. He was Rep. Joseph H. Rainey, who was born into slavery in 1832 and served as a Reconstruction-era member of Congress. No. 3 House Democratic leader James Clyburn, Rainey's great-granddaughter Lorna Rainey and others used the event to talk about continuing efforts for social justice and voting rights. Clyburn, like Rainey, is from South Carolina. Clyburn lamented that there was 95 years between Reconstruction and when he was elected as South Carolina's next Black congressman.