House of Representatives

Longtime U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, who is South Carolina's lone Democrat in Congress, announced Thursday morning that he will run for a potential 18th House term.

Landlords who file eviction proceedings in South Carolina courts brand tenants in a way that follows them wherever they try to move. It doesn’t matter if the evictions actually happened. Lawmakers and advocates want to fix that.

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.