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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.

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  • 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...

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

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

    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

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

    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...

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

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Tue, May 7, 2013

    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?

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Mon, May 6, 2013

    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

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Mon, May 6, 2013

    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...


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