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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.

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  • Pro-amnesty Republicans cave on the welfare state

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: 8 hr ago

    “You don’t screw up your policies to fit a stupid government program,” amnesty advocate Grover Norquist recently told National Review in reference to welfare spending on low-skill immigrants, “You reform the stupid government program.” That is a nice thought … in theory.

  • Lobbyists love Schumer-Rubio

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: 10 hr ago

    It is still unclear if the 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the United States will be rewarded with amnesty later this year, but the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill that would grant them that amnesty has already provided Washington lobbyists on K Street with their big payday. At least...

  • Morning Examiner: Schumer’s Republicans help Obama advance amnesty in Senate

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: 12 hr ago

    To chants of “Si se puede” (Spanish for President Obama’s “Yes, we can!” campaign slogan), the Senate Judiciary Committee passed the S. 744 immigration bill out of committee Tuesday on a 13-to-5 vote. Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.; and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, were the...

  • The leftist lynch mob out to get Tom Coburn might want to put down their pitchforks

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    There is no better steward of American taxpayer dollars than Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. When Hurricane Sandy struck last year, he fought to eliminate non-emergency items from a supplemental disaster relief bill that included millions for road construction in states not affected by the hurricane....

  • Why low-skill immigration is different than free trade

    Conn Carroll

    Yesterday

    McClatchy Newspapers has an excellent story on immigration Tuesday, reporting on how farmers are framing the debate to their representatives: Walk the aisles of any neighborhood grocery store today and you’re as likely to find tomatoes picked in Sinaloa, Mexico, as Central California or...

  • Rand Paul defends Apple

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    This morning the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Subcommittee conducted a witchunt hearing into Apple’s tax bill. Republicans and Democrats alike took turns attacking the tech giant for not paying taxes on $74 billion of overseas income. But Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., would have none of...

  • Conservative leaders sign letter rejecting Schumer-Rubio

    Conn Carroll

    Yesterday

    A broad coalition of more than 100 conservative leaders signed a letter Monday urging Senators to oppose S. 744, also known as the Gang of Eight immigration bill. “No matter how well-intentioned, the Schumer-Rubio bill suffers from fundamental design flaws that make it unsalvageable,” the...

  • Morning Examiner: Left wastes no time politicizing the Oklahoma tragedy

    Conn Carroll

    Yesterday

    At least 51 people were killed Monday when a massive tornado destroyed a two-mile-wide swath of Moore, Okla., an Oklahoma City suburb. The state medical examiner’s office estimates that at least another 40 people may also be dead. Tragically, natural disasters have become a political football...

  • 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: Mon, May 20, 2013

    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...


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