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Conn Carroll

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Conn Carroll came to the Washington Examiner in April 2010, after serving for more than three years as The Heritage Foundation's Assistant Director for Strategic Communications.

While at Heritage, Conn created Heritage's rapid response blog, The Foundry, and its morning email product, The Morning Bell.

A native of Oakland, California, Conn first moved to Washington in 1996 to attend the George Washington University. Since that time he has worked/interned for a member of Congress, a polling firm, a lobbying firm, a media firm, a federal agency, a federal court, and a litigation firm. Conn first entered journalism in 2006 when he joined National Journal's The Hotline.

Conn is a graduate of the George Mason University Law School and was a member of the D.C. Bar.

He lives in Fairfax with his wife and two children.

Contributions

  • Low-skill immigration is just another government redistribution program

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

    Many conservatives do not normally think of it this way, but Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research Steven Camarota explained today that low-skill immigration is really just another government redistribution program. But this time, income is being redistributed from the poor to the...

  • Morning Examiner: Obama surviving scandals so far

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: 15 hr ago

    Inside Washington, continuing developments in the Internal Revenue Service, Associated Press and Benghazi scandals may have given President Obama the worst week of his presidency so far. But outside Washington, Obama seems to be doing just fine. According to a CNN poll taken on Friday and...

  • Why law enforcement opposes Schumer-Rubio immigration bill

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: 15 hr ago

    Kenneth Palinkas, the president of the National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council, a union representing 12,000 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers and staff, issued a statement Monday explaining why his union has decided to officially oppose the Schumer-Rubio...

  • Conn Carroll: The Obama scandals' case for limited government

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Sat, May 18, 2013

    "It's an interesting case study, right," former President Obama adviser David Axelrod told the crew of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday, "because if you look at the inspector general's report, apparently some folks down in the bureaucracy, ya know -- we have a large government -- took it upon...

  • Marco Rubio’s immigration game plan

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

    After one full week of votes in the Senate Judiciary Committee, it is now clear that no major changes will be made to the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill before it reaches the Senate floor. The fix is in. The Republicans members of the Gang of Eight on the Judiciary Committee, Sens. Lindsey...

  • Morning Examiner: Accountability, Obama style

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

    “The government generally has to conduct itself in a way that is true to the public trust,” President Obama said from the East Room of the White House Wednesday. “That’s especially true for the IRS. “So, here’s what we’re going to do,” Obama continued. “First, we’re going...

  • Graham admits Schumer-Rubio visa exit system is 'just a piece of paper'

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., one of two Republican Gang of Eight members on the Senate Judiciary Committee, admitted today that the visa entry and exit system in the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill is just “a piece of paper.” “Sen. Cornyn, I want you to know that if it were left up to me...

  • Morning Examiner: The White House strikes back

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    President Obama fought back against all three major scandals dominating Washington Wednesday, providing his defenders with fresh talking points on each issue. Obama’s pushback On the IRS scandal, Obama announced, from the East Room of the White House, that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew had...

  • Confirmed: Kathleen Sebelius is an IPAB of one

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

    Under Obamacare, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has the power to unilaterally set Medicare price controls should the Independent Payment Advisory Board fail to submit its own proposal, a Congressional Research Service memo confirmed this month. IPAB is the signature...


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