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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

  • Washington's immigration priorities don't match America's

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Fri, May 10, 2013

    The rest of President Obama’s second-term agenda may be stalled in Congress, but the Senate is rapidly moving the Schumer-Rubio immigration reform bill towards passage early this summer. But the American people have different priorities. According to Gallup, out of twelve issues offered to...

  • American Crossroads previews 2016 Benghazi attacks on Hillary Clinton

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Fri, May 10, 2013

    American Crossroads, the 527 organization co-founded by Karl Rove that spent millions attacking President Obama during the 2012 campaign, has posted a one-minute, 30-second video attacking former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her part in the Benghazi attack cover-up. After playing a...

  • Morning Examiner: Border security loses big on first day of Schumer-Rubio voting

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Fri, May 10, 2013

    Twenty-eight amendments to the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill were voted on by the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday, and all 12 sponsored by Democrats passed. Meanwhile, conservative Republicans offered five substantive amendments that would have strengthened the border security measures...

  • Republicans refuse appointments to Obamacare rationing board

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Thu, May 9, 2013

    House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., sent a letter to President Obama today informing him that they would not be making recommendations for the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), as they are allowed to do under the president’s 2010...

  • Morning Examiner: The key amendments to watch at today’s immigration markup

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Thu, May 9, 2013

    This morning at 9:30 AM, the Senate Judiciary Committee will begin marking-up S.744, more commonly known as the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill. Over 300 amendments have been filed by both Democrats and Republicans although far fewer will actually receive votes in committee. Below are three of...

  • Pro-amnesty Republicans push Obamacare tactics on immigration costs

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

    Pro-amnesty Republicans are pushing an Associated Press story reporting that Schumer-Rubio immigration bill would “boost Social Security.” From the AP: An analysis by the Social Security Administration says a bipartisan immigration bill pending in the Senate would boost the retirement...

  • Obama won. Pro-growth immigration reform advocates need to get over it

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

    AEI’s Jim Pethokoukis has a dreamy post envisioning what immigration reform would have looked like had Mitt Romney won last November: Senator Marco Rubio was tasked with shepherding a comprehensive immigration bill through Congress that would be worthwhile wonkery and, as a side benefit,...

  • Republicans best Democrats on economy and guns, tied on immigration

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

    President Obama’s overall approval rating is back over 50 percent, according to the latest Pew Research survey, but his party is now losing to Republicans on the economy and guns and is tied with them on immigration. Overall, 42 percent of those Americans surveyed said the Republican Party...

  • As Dow hits record high, record low percentage of Americans benefiting

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Wed, May 8, 2013

    The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 15,000 for the first time ever Tuesday, but fewer Americans than ever are benefiting from the stock market boom. According to Gallup, only 52 percent of Americans own any stock. That is down from a high of 65 percent in 2007 and the lowest number...

  • Cato and the true costs of low-skill immigration

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Wed, May 8, 2013

    For whatever reason, the Cato Institute has made passage of the Schumer-Rubio amnesty bill one of their top priorities this year. Hence Cato Analyst Alex Nowrasteh‘s constant hyping of low-skill immigration’s benefits while deliberately minimizing any of its costs. But Cato was not always so...


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