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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

  • Food stamps: A case study on the need for competitive federalism

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Thu, Apr 25, 2013

    As the Republican Party struggles to redefine itself after two consecutive presidential election defeats, a group of scholars is pressing the conservative movement to rethink how it thinks about federalism. The usual refrain among Republicans is that Congress should always be looking to...

  • Morning Examiner: Democrats looking to retreat on FAA furloughs

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Thu, Apr 25, 2013

    Senate Democrats are beginning to realize that President Obama has dealt them a losing hand on Federal Aviation Administration furloughs linked to sequestration, and they are now trying to minimize the damage. The entire purpose of sequestration was to inflict pain on the American people...

  • Morning Examiner: The Left’s epistemic closure on guns

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Wed, Apr 24, 2013

    “You do not ignore 90 percent of the American people on an issue of public safety,” MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough said the morning after the United States Senate voted down the Toomey-Manchin gun control bill. “Mark it down, this is going to be a turning point in the history of the...

  • Doing less with more: President Obama’s manufactured airport delays

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Tue, Apr 23, 2013

    When President Obama signed the fiscal cliff deal in January, he hoped that the threat of automatic sequestration spending cuts would force Republicans to raise taxes. But now that sequestration has started and the federal government is functioning just fine at sequestration funding levels,...

  • Myth vs. fact: Yes, Schumer-Rubio is amnesty

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Tue, Apr 23, 2013

    Just as The Associated Press no longer allows their reporters to use the phrase “illegal immigrant,” supporters of the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill have sought to make sure no one calls their bill “amnesty.” And like the AP, who still hasn’t quite decided what to call illegal...

  • Bush, Obama now tied at 47 percent approval

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Tue, Apr 23, 2013

    One president is falling. One president is rising. Now their paths have crossed. According to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, former-President Bush now has the exact same job approval rating, 47 percent, as President Obama, 47 percent. From The Washington Post: Almost as many people...

  • Morning Examiner: Sen. Marco Rubio ‘kneecaps’ fellow conservatives

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Tue, Apr 23, 2013

    “Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is running a campaign-style press operation to push an immigration overhaul, a fitting move for a politician who needs it to bolster a rumored 2016 presidential bid,” Roll Call reports this morning. “Rubio’s Senate office has adopted a rapid-response strategy...

  • Conservative embrace of pre-existing condition alternative signals future repeal plan

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: Mon, Apr 22, 2013

    As Obamacare implementation continues to be a slow-motion train wreck, Republicans are grappling with how best to respond to the situation. They don’t want to do anything to help prop up a failing program, but they need to show the American people they have workable health care policies too....

  • Marco Rubio’s leftist talking points on immigration and slavery

    Conn Carroll

    Published: Mon, Apr 22, 2013

    Yesterday, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., spokesman Alex Conant caused a bit of a stir when he argued against granting permanent legal residence to illegal immigrants by claiming, “We haven’t had a cohort of people living permanently in US without full rights of citizenship since slavery.”...


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