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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

  • Myth vs. Fact: Yes, the Schumer-Rubio bill does allow lawsuits to gut border security

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Thu, Apr 18, 2013

    Either Sen. Marco Rubio failed to stay awake in his civil procedure class at the University of Miami Law School, or Sen. Chuck Schumer’s lawyers pulled a fast one on him. How else to explain the senator’s MYTH VS. FACT Press Release purporting to show that his “Border Security, Economic...

  • Marco Rubio’s border commission bamboozle

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Thu, Apr 18, 2013

    Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is in the middle of his second big talk radio push for his Gang of Eight immigration plan. The first push came in January, and Rubio was almost universally received well. Today, Rubio will be on The Rush Limbaugh Show around 1 p.m. and yesterday he was on The Mark Levin...

  • Morning Examiner: The Gang of Eight’s big government power grab

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Thu, Apr 18, 2013

    Libertarians and conservatives don’t agree on every policy issue but, especially under President Obama, they have largely been united in opposing almost all expansions of federal government power. One issue that has always divided conservatives and libertarians, however, is immigration....

  • Marco Rubio’s completely worthless border security triggers

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Wed, Apr 17, 2013

    Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has produced a press release detailing “six security trigger steps that must be met before any currently illegal immigrant is given access to a green card.” They are as follows: 1.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must create, fund, and begin a border...

  • Morning Examiner: Senate gun showdown today

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Wed, Apr 17, 2013

    Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., may not have the votes to pass a gun control bill that is already far weaker than President Obama wanted, but he is plowing ahead anyway today, hoping the addition of even more loopholes will convince reticent red state Democrats and wavering Republicans...

  • The Gang of Ocho’s huge border security loophole

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Wed, Apr 17, 2013

    Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., produced a press release today claiming that his new “Border Security, Economic Opportunity & Immigration Modernization Act” creates “six security trigger steps that must be met before any currently illegal immigrant is given access to a green card.” And it...

  • The Gang of Ocho’s Path to Citizenship in 7 easy steps

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Tue, Apr 16, 2013

    1) President Obama signs the “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act.” 2) 180 days after Obama signs bill, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano submit two border security plans to Congress. No further action is required. 3) After...

  • The worthless ‘triggers’ in the Gang of Ocho’s immigration bill

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Tue, Apr 16, 2013

    “If, in fact, this bill does not have real triggers in there, if there is not language in this bill that guarantees that nothing else will happen unless these enforcement mechanisms are in place, I won’t support it.” – Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., on The Rush Limbaugh Show, Jan. 29 Sen....

  • Morning Examiner: Gun and immigration bills proceed despite Boston bombings

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Tue, Apr 16, 2013

    America’s heart may be with the victims of Monday’s horrific Boston Marathon bombings, where at least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, but the United States Senate is still moving ahead on two highly controversial gun and immigration bills. On immigration, the Gang...

  • How the federal government spent the average American’s taxes in 2012

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Mon, Apr 15, 2013

    In honor of tax day, the White House has produced a Federal Taxpayer Receipt calculator that allows users to enter in an income level and see how the federal government spent their tax dollars. In 2012, the Census Bureau estimated that the median household income in the United States was...


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