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(Columbia, SC) – House Assistant Democratic Leader and South Carolina Congressman James E. Clyburn announced today five new grants, totaling over $7 million, awarded to South Carolina and the 6th Congressional District. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and FEMA awarded two grants to Columbia and Jamestown, South Carolina for a State Fire Training Academy

(Columbia, SC) – House Assistant Democratic Leader and South Carolina Congressman James E. Clyburn announced today two Department of Agriculture grants awarded to South Carolina and the 6th Congressional District. The Town of Kingstree will receive $22,500 from the United States Department of Agriculture for a Water and Waste Disposal Pre-Development Grant.  The rural development

(Columbia, SC) – House Assistant Democratic Leader and South Carolina Congressman James E. Clyburn sent today the following letter and attachments to his fellow members of the South Carolina Congressional Delegation: Dear South Carolina Colleague, I am writing you on behalf of the economic competitiveness of our state and our working people and asking you

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WASHINGTON — Today, Assistant Democratic Leader James E. Clyburn testified on the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) 10-20-30 anti-poverty plan at the House Committee on the Budget hearing titled “A Progress Report on the War on Poverty: Reforming Federal Aid.”  Full video of Mr. Clyburn’s testimony (click image to view) and text of remarks as prepared

There are currently 488 counties in America where twenty percent of the population has lived below the poverty line for the past thirty years or more. In the House of Representatives in the 113th Congress, 139 of these counties—known as persistent poverty counties—are represented by Democrats, 331 are represented by Republicans, and 18 are split