Lindsey Graham

Type: Person

Name: Lindsey Graham

Title: U.S. Senator from South Carolina

Organization: U.S. Senate

Date of Birth: 09/07/1955

Place of Birth: Central, Pickens County, South Carolina

Nationality: United States

Fact Sheet: Biography for Lindsey Graham

First reported 53 mins ago - Updated 28 mins ago - 1 reports

Taliban

OVERNIGHT DEFENSE: Taliban, US set for talks

The Topline: The U.S. will soon kick of direct peace talks with the Taliban after the Taliban established a new political office in Qatar on Tuesday.The new peace talks with the U.S. and government of Afghanistan could be a key step in winding down the ... [Published The Hill - 53 mins ago]

Entities: Taliban, US National Security Agency, Barack Obama, Carl Levin

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 46 mins ago - 2 reports

John Boehner

Supporters of immigration reform in Senate: Focus on Senate, not House

WASHINGTON — Senators working to pass comprehensive immigration reform are keeping their eyes on their own chamber, in spite of comments Tuesday morning by Speaker of the House John Boehner that he would not bring the bill to the floor without a majority ... [Published Daily Caller - 3 hours ago]

Entities: John Boehner, Lindsey Graham, Republican Party (US), Immigration

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

US National Security Agency

Senator Lindsey Graham Defends NSA Surveillance By Arguing About Something Entirely Different

We recently mentioned that Senator Lindsey Graham said he was happy that the NSA was collecting the data on his calls, because he doesn't speak to terrorists. Of course, that's an incredibly ignorant statement in many, many ways. However, Senator Graham ... [Published Techdirt - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Lindsey Graham, US National Security Agency, Surveillance, Terrorists

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Lindsey Graham

Sen. Graham Concerned Rubio May Abandon Immigration Reform

Tweet this storySen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) expressed concern Monday that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) may be walking away from immigration reform legislation that the two lawmakers spent months hammering out with the support of the bipartisan "Gang of Eight" ... [Published Talking Points Memo - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Immigration Reform

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 1 reports

Graham: US should neutralize Syria's air power with no-fly zone

Now that President Barack Obama has decided to help arm rebel forces fighting the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, it's crucial that the plan include more than just assault rifles, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday. ... [Published Greenville News - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Lindsey Graham, Neutralize, No-Fly Zone, Syria

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 2 reports

Republican Party (US)

The GOP Death Spiral Is To Follow Lindsey Graham

Sen. Lindsey GrahamSouth Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is of the opinion that to defeat his Gang of 8 amnesty plan for immigration reform will lead to a death spiral for the Republican Party.$ Graham said on NBC?s Meet The Press, ?After eight years ... [Published Redstate - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Republican Party (US), Lindsey Graham, Hispanics

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 5 reports

Barack Obama

Obama Doesn't Have a Syria Plan So Why is He Committing America To Another War?

In March President Obama warned Syrian President Assad that the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian "civil" war would be a game changer causing the United States and the international community to get involved. Three months later the Administration ... [Published YID With LID - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Barack Obama, Mike Rogers, Syria

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 3 reports

Republican senator says his party is in a demographic death spiral

HERE ‘s another chapter in the ongoing drama we call “Demography Is Destiny”:Sen. Lindsey Graham [above] — one of the Republican co-sponsors of an immigration reform bill that would provide a pathway to citizenship for the nation’s 11.1 million undocumented ... [Published Rockland Standard - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Lindsey Graham, Republican Party (US), Immigration

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Senator Graham on NSA scandal, immigration reform

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) Senator Lindsey Graham took to the Sunday talk show circuit to sound off on the latest hot button issues. Senator Graham said he thinks 29-year-old Edward Snowden, the whistleblower from the NSA, should be arrested.The former intelligence ... [Published ABC News 4 Charleston - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Lindsey Graham, US National Security Agency, National Security, Immigration, Surveillance

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Sen. Lindsey Graham On NBC:GOP In âDemographic Death Spiral,âMust Pass Immigration Reform

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham told David Gregory on Meet the Press Sunday morning that any talk of GOP candidates for the 2016 presidential race was moot if the party didnât improve its electoral chances by passing the Gang of Eightâs overhaul ... [Published Lucianne.com - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Lindsey Graham, Immigration Reform, Republican Party (US)

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 2 reports

Graham warns GOP on immigration bill

WASHINGTON - Republicans are "in a demographic death spiral" and will fail in their effort to win the presidency if the party blocks an immigration overhaul, a leading GOP senator said Sunday.Sen. Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who helped ... [Published Philadelphia Daily News - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Lindsey Graham, Republican Party (US), Immigration

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 2 reports

Push for ‘no-fly’ in Syria

WASHINGTON - Pressure mounted yesterday for President Obama to do more than just send guns to Syrian rebels."The whole region is about to blow up," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) declared on NBCs "Meet the Press." "Our foreign policy to me - I dont understand ... [Published Big News Network - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Syria, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Robert Menendez, Lindsey Graham, No-Fly Zone

Quotes

...and the United States or calling a number in the United States, I would like to get a judge's position to monitor that phone call," Graham said on "meet the presspress on nbc. "if we don't do that, another attack on our homeland is very likely.""

Senator Lindsey Graham Defends NSA Surveillance By Arguing About Something Entirely Different [Published Techdirt - 4 hours ago]

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Today's Thing That Will Blow Up Immigration Ref... [Published Slate - David Weigel - 5 hours ago]
Republican Political Calculations On Immigratio... [Published Outside The Beltway \| OTB - 5 hours ago]
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South Carolina, Texas, & Arkansas [Published Southern Political Report - 7 hours ago]
This Week in Immigration: Procedural Disorder [Published Brookings Institution - 8 hours ago]
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Blogs

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Gang of Eight Republicans Join Senate Dems to K... [Published Breitbart Feed - 1 hour ago] Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL), John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ), the four “Gang of Eight” GOP senators, joined Senate Democrats on Tuesday to kill an amendment to their immigration bill that would have required a double-layered ...
Senator Lindsey Graham Defends NSA Surveillance... [Published Techdirt - 4 hours ago] We recently mentioned that Senator Lindsey Graham said he was happy that the NSA was collecting the data on his calls, because he doesn't speak to terrorists. Of course, that's an incredibly ignorant statement in many, many ways. However, Senator Graham ...
Today's Thing That Will Blow Up Immigration Ref... [Published Slate - David Weigel - 5 hours ago] File this under "obvious things we're going to choose to freak out over." At the weekly House GOP leadership presser, John Boehner waved off the idea that the Democrats could join a rump of Republicans and pass an immigration bill in the House -- which ...
Republican Political Calculations On Immigratio... [Published Outside The Beltway \| OTB - 5 hours ago] Over the weekend, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, who has been among the most vocal Republican voices for immigration reform in the Senate going back to the last immigration reform battle in 2007, warned his fellow Republicans that they ...
Gomez Would Help GOP More Than Amnesty [Published Breitbart Feed - 6 hours ago] The DC GOP establishment has convinced itself that pandering to certain Hispanic voters by supporting immigration legislation drafted by Sen. Chuck Schumer is the path to electoral victory. Sen. Lindsey Graham has warned that the GOP is in a "demographic ...

Audio/Video

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Graham on Mike Huckabee Radio Show [Published Senator Lindsey Graham - YouTube Channel - 4 hours ago]
Graham Speaks with CNBC Kudlow Report [Published Senator Lindsey Graham - YouTube Channel - Jun 13 2013]
Graham Expresses Concerns over Possible State D... [Published Senator Lindsey Graham - YouTube Channel - Jun 12 2013]
Graham on Possible Cover-Ups in State Departmen... [Published Senator Lindsey Graham - YouTube Channel - Jun 12 2013]
Graham Discusses NSA Program with Greta Van Sus... [Published Senator Lindsey Graham - YouTube Channel - Jun 12 2013]

Press Releases

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"They'll Have To Learn English" Is A Lie Says P... [Published PR Newswire: Entertainment & Media - May 13 2013]
NAFSA Statement Correcting the Record on Studen... [Published PR Newswire: Policy & Public Interest - Apr 24 2013]
Statement from NAHB Chairman Rick Judson on Sen... [Published Business Wire Public Policy/Government News - Apr 16 2013]
Save the Children Honors Sen. Lindsey Graham as... [Published Business Wire Public Policy/Government News - Apr 12 2013]
UFCW President Hansen Statement on NLRB Nominat... [Published Business Wire Public Policy/Government News - Apr 09 2013]