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Articles about Darline Graham
Darline Graham Says America Must 'Stop Depending on Communist China.' Her Husband Works for Two Companies That Do.
Darline Graham campaigns on getting tough on China. Her husband, Larry Nordone, has management roles at two South Carolina companies: one whose shipping containers appear to be more than 97% Chinese, and one that imports toy guns from a Chinese maker that, until The Washington Post asked, advertised ties to China's state weapons giants.
Chris Smith Led 128 Republicans in Asking for a Federal Probe of Planned Parenthood. They Asked Whether It 'Illegally Received $88 Million.' Nobody Has Found That.
Chris Smith co-led a 128-Republican letter — signed by 103 Republicans on this site — asking HHS's inspector general to investigate Planned Parenthood. It describes an SBA eligibility review of pandemic loans as a probe into whether affiliates 'illegally received $88 million' — months after the last attack on Planned Parenthood's funding closed nearly 30 clinics.
Republicans Tied a Weak Stock Trading Ban to a Voter ID Law. It Failed. One Republican Says That Was the Plan.
86% of Americans want members of Congress to stop trading stocks. Republicans glued the ban to a strict voter ID law, so it died in the Senate 53–47 on September 30. Fifteen Republican senators on this site voted to advance the package, and many of them have stock trading problems of their own.
Nine Americans Were Killed in the West Bank. These Republican Senators Voted Not to Even Ask What Happened.
On September 29, the Senate voted 47–51 against forcing a vote on asking the State Department for a report on nine U.S. citizens killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers since 2022. Fourteen Republicans with report cards on this site voted no.
13 Senate Republicans Voted to Keep a Trump Rule That HHS Says Will Cost Up to 2 Million People Their Health Insurance
On September 29, thirteen Republican senators on this site voted to keep a Trump administration rule that makes Obamacare coverage harder to get. HHS itself estimates the rule could cost 1.2 million to 2 million people their health insurance.
The House Voted to End Trump's Iran War. On September 24, 14 Republican Senators We Track Killed It by One Vote.
The House passed a resolution ordering U.S. forces out of the Iran war in July. The Senate finally voted on it September 24 and it failed 49-50. Fourteen senators on our report cards voted no — including Jon Husted, who said two days earlier the war 'needs to come to an end as quickly as possible.'
In Her Victory Speech, Darline Graham Called Government Health Care 'Bad Idea After Bad Idea.' 235,000 South Carolinians Have Already Lost Their Coverage.
Graham told a runoff-night crowd her family worked through illness because 'if the doors weren't open, we weren't making money.' Her first month in the Senate included a vote to keep insurance-company gatekeeping inside Medicare.
Asked Whether America Has an Interest in Taiwan, Sen. Darline Graham Said 'National Security Is Not My Thing.' She Has Been in the Senate Since July.
In the only debate before South Carolina's August 25 runoff, Graham asked the moderator to repeat a question about Taiwan and the South China Sea, then said: 'I'm just going to be honest here. I'm not that informed on national security.'
Darline Graham Had Been a Senator for Three Weeks. The FEC Says Her Campaign Already Took $24,000 More Than the Law Allows.
Federal regulators told Darline Graham's campaign it must refund or redesignate over-the-limit money from the founder of Charles Schwab, three married couples who wrote matching checks, and Lisa Murkowski's leadership PAC.
A State Had to Sue the Federal Government to Investigate Child Sex Crimes. Three Days Later, 50 Republicans Promoted the Man It Sued.
New Mexico sued the Justice Department on August 5 for stonewalling its criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's ranch. On August 8, the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general anyway.
At 4:17 in the Morning, 50 Republican Senators Handed the Justice Department to Trump's Former Personal Lawyer
Todd Blanche was confirmed as attorney general 50-49 before dawn on Saturday. Fourteen Republicans we track voted yes — and thirteen of them had already voted to put him at the Justice Department once before.
Darline Graham Was Appointed to Honor Her Brother's Legacy. Her First Big Move Was to Break With Him — to Make Voting Harder.
Three weeks into the job, South Carolina's appointed senator says she'd blow up the filibuster to pass the SAVE Act — the opposite of her brother's position. Her introductory ad is two culture-war lines. Her primary is August 11.
At 4:36 in the Morning, 52 Republican Senators Voted to Advance a New Hurdle Between You and the Ballot Box
Before leaving town for a month of vacation, the Senate held an overnight vote on a brand-new photo ID bill written by Ohio Sen. Jon Husted. It failed. Fifteen Republicans we track voted to advance it anyway.
Darline Graham Spent Her Career Serving Disabled South Carolinians. Her First Senate Votes on Health Care and Child Care Went the Other Way.
She ran South Carolina's Commission for the Blind and helped unwind subminimum wage for disabled workers. Two days into the Senate she voted against taking up a resolution to end a new Medicare prior-authorization program, and two weeks later against taking up one to undo a child care rollback.
Darline Graham Inherited Her Brother's Senate Seat. Now She's Inherited His PAC, Too.
Federal records now list Darline Graham as sponsor of Fund for America's Future — the leadership PAC Lindsey Graham built. NOTUS calls a sibling-to-sibling handoff like this "decidedly uncommon."
Darline Graham Has Been a Senator for Weeks. Her First Bill Would Make It Harder for Millions of Citizens to Vote.
Darline Graham says the first bill she cosponsored is the SAVE America Act — and she'd cancel the Senate's August recess to pass it. She sells it as showing an ID like you would at the library. The bill asks for far more than that.