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Conn Carroll

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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

  • Morning Examiner: Marco Rubio’s latest border security farce

    By Conn Carroll | 06/03/13 09:50 AM

    Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., knows that the biggest challenge in selling citizenship for illegal immigrants to conservatives is convincing them that this will be the last batch of immigrants that will ever be granted citizenship after entering the United States illegally. To that end, Rubio has...

  • How to tell if the amnesty fix is in

    By Conn Carroll | 06/02/13 03:25 PM

    "I think we have 60 votes," Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told a Nevada public television station last week about the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill. "Remember, we start out at 55 Democrats. I think the most I'll lose is two or three. Let's say I wind up with 52 Democrats," Reid...

  • Clinton’s poll numbers falling faster than Obama’s

    By Conn Carroll | 05/31/13 11:05 AM

    Voters may tell pollsters that they believe the IRS scandal is more important than the Benghazi scandal, but Hillary Clinton’s approval rating is falling faster than President Obama’s. According to a new Quinnipiac poll poll, 44 percent of voters see the IRS targeting of conservatives as...

  • Morning Examiner: Scandals start to take toll on Obama’s agenda

    By Conn Carroll | 05/31/13 09:45 AM

    Just last month, Quinnipiac University found that most Americans approved of President Obama’s performance as president, 48 to 45 percent. Today, Obama now has a net negative approval rating, 45 to 49 percent. And it appears the IRS scandal is driving Obama’s fall. From Quinnipiac: The...

  • ‘Rogue’ IRS agent who wrote threatening letters gets promotion

    By Conn Carroll | 05/30/13 02:40 PM

    President Obama may have promised “to hold the responsible parties accountable” for the Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative non-profit groups, but one of the agents at the center of the scandal was recently promoted, an IRS source tells The Washington Examiner. Through 2012,...

  • Pro-amnesty Republicans still in denial over immigration and the welfare state

    By Conn Carroll | 05/30/13 01:20 PM

    Stephen Moore has an op-ed out today tracing Milton Friedman’s sometimes contradictory thoughts on immigration. Here is his kicker: “Look, for example, to the obvious, immediate and practical example of illegal Mexican immigration,” [Friedman] said in “What is America?” a 1978...

  • Study: Government regs waste $46 billion every year

    By Conn Carroll | 05/30/13 10:30 AM

    Thanks to federal government regulations, Americans waste 642 million hours every year filling out duplicative paperwork, a new study by American Action Forum reports Thursday. That is the equivalent of 321,000 employees working 2,000 hours annually at a cost of $46 billion. AAF drew the data...

  • Morning Examiner: Media turning on Eric Holder, for now

    By Conn Carroll | 05/30/13 10:10 AM

    Justice Department officials began reaching out Wednesday to the Washington bureau chiefs of major media organizations seeking their attendance at an off-the-record discussion with Attorney General Eric Holder about DOJ practices for investigating national security leaks. When big-time news...

  • The Washington Post’s bogus disaster poll

    By Conn Carroll | 05/29/13 01:35 PM

    The Washington Post is trumpeting a new poll purporting to show that Americans hate Sen. Tom Coburn’s position on disaster relief funding. Chris Cillizza and Sean Sullivan write: Nearly six in 10 Americans believe that the federal government should provide funds to states affected by natural...

  • Morning Examiner: Will the boom continue when the printing press stops?

    By Conn Carroll | 05/29/13 11:00 AM

    Apparently, if you just print money long enough, asset prices will rise and juice the economy. That is the takeaway news from the front pages of the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post Wednesday morning. All three papers have stories on Standard & Poor’s report...



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