This week, I proudly stood with House Republican Caucus members to pass a balanced, fiscally conservative budget — one that cuts taxes, eliminates waste, and invests in the priorities that matter most to South Carolina families. While Washington, D.C. continues to spend recklessly, we do things differently in South Carolina.Continue Reading
By Representative Nathan Ballentine 2025 Week 8 – Delivering on My Promise to Promote Business-Friendly Policies This week, my colleagues and I took major steps to deliver on the promises we made to you—reducing burdensome regulations, providing relief to small businesses, cracking down on crime, and ensuring property owners haveContinue Reading
The fight to expand educational freedom, protect and empower our children, and promote fiscal responsibility continued in full force this week at the State House. My colleagues and I in the took bold steps to strengthen school choice, close dangerous loopholes in our child exploitation laws, and advance a conservative,Continue Reading
Strengthening Public Safety, Energy Security & Online Protections The fight to protect South Carolina families, businesses, and values is in full swing at the State House. This week, we took major steps to crack down on organized crime, secure our energy future, and protect kids online—proving once again that weContinue Reading
By Nathan Ballentine I am proud to be working with like-minded colleagues in the State House to fight for conservative reforms that put South Carolinians first. We are taking bold action to rein in wasteful spending, secure South Carolina’s energy future and eliminate conflicts of interest in auditing. This week,Continue Reading
We’re two weeks into our legislative session and the excitement is building. House committees are currently engaged in taking public testimony and preparing for the upcoming floor debates on many issues you’ve let me know are important to you. In total, there were more than 31 committee and subcommittee meetings,Continue Reading
From Nathan Ballentine and Nathan’s News Like many of y’all, I drive this route almost every day. For several months (possibly years?) I noticed the traffic backed up in the mornings and afternoons. I mean, terribly! Mornings: people from Chapin coming down 76 to get on highway at Peak ExitContinue Reading
By State Representative Nathan Ballentine The first few weeks of the year have been focused on committee work rather than full debate on the House floor. Specifically, I have been very busy with hearings from our state’s colleges and universities as they present their needs (and wants) for the 2024-2025Continue Reading
By the time you read this update, the SC House will have adjourned Sine Die, or the end of the 2021-2022 regular Legislative Session. There is work still left to complete and so we will come back to Columbia in the coming weeks and into the summer. The BudgetFirst andContinue Reading
I am pleased to report that last week the House of Representatives State Budget passed overwhelmingly with a bipartisan vote of 108 in favor to only 7 against A lot of hard work and effort went into creating this budget with hundreds of hours of committee meetings, subcommittee meetings, andContinue Reading
Most of the work last month in the House was done at the committee level. Serving on the House budget committee keeps Rep. Huggins and I very busy as we work to be good stewards of your tax dollars. After weeks of subcommittee work, the full House budget committee willContinue Reading