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Conn Carroll is a senior editorial writer for The Washington Examiner and the author of its daily "Morning Examiner" feature and e-newsletter. His expertise and interests include immigration, administrative law, energy and federal regulation.

He has previously written for National Journal's The Hotline and served as assistant director for strategic communications for the Heritage Foundation. At Heritage, he created the rapid-response blog The Foundry and the foundation's Morning Bell email newsletter.

A native of Oakland, Calif., he is a graduate of the George Mason University Law School and was a member of the D.C. Bar.

Contributions from Conn Carroll

  • Will pro-amnesty Republicans surrender on the welfare state?

    By Conn Carroll | 05/08/13 11:10 AM

    National Review’s David Foster makes some of the same mistakes The Washington Post did when they editorialized on The Heritage Foundation’s amnesty study, but his conclusion about Schumer-Rubio is spot on: Instead of fighting it out all summer on the empirical question of the cost of...

  • Morning Examiner: 2016 hangs over today’s Benghazi hearing

    By Conn Carroll | 05/08/13 08:35 AM

    There are still more than 31 months before the Iowa Caucuses begin in January 2016, but the race for the White House will very much be on everyone’s mind today when three State Department Officials testify under oath before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about the...

  • Yes, Heritage study does account for increased revenues from immigrants who get amnesty

    By Conn Carroll | 05/07/13 10:35 AM

    Considering the pro-amnesty positions of their ownerships, it is not surprising that liberal outlets like The Washington Post and BuzzFeed quickly denounced the Heritage Foundation’s new study showing that the amnesty portion of the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill would cost American tax payers...

  • Morning Examiner: Pro-amnesty Republicans and the welfare state

    By Conn Carroll | 05/07/13 08:40 AM

    Yesterday, The Heritage Foundation released a report showing that the amnesty portion of the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill would cost current American taxpayers $6.3 trillion over the next 50 years.* Knowing a price tag that big could choke off any significant Republican support for the...

  • Does Marco Rubio really support deporting 4 million illegal immigrants?

    By Conn Carroll | 05/06/13 04:10 PM

    You’ve heard the false choice thousands of times from pro-amnesty Republicans: We must either give the 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the country today citizenship, or we must round them up for mass deportations. This is, of course, ridiculous. There are plenty of other ways to...

  • K Street Republicans spend big on pro-amnesty TV buy

    By Conn Carroll | 05/06/13 11:45 AM

    When establishment Republicans want to crush the conservative grassroots they turn to the American Action Network, which is the 501c4 arm of Doug Holtz-Eakin’s American Action Forum. Last April when Tea Party favorite Richard Mourdock challenged then-Sen. Dick Luagar, R-Ind., in the Republican...

  • Morning Examiner: Warmups are over – immigration fight starts now

    By Conn Carroll | 05/06/13 08:55 AM

    After months of negotiations, leaks, and press conferences, the United States Senate will begin voting on President Obama’s biggest second-term priority, immigration reform, this week. On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled mark-up the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill and,...


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