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January 7, 2006
Today, Congressman Joe Wilson (SC-02) made the following statement regarding Congressman Tom DeLay's announcement that he will permanently step down as Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives:

January 6, 2006
Today, Congressman Joe Wilson (SC-02) made the following statement during press conferences in Columbia, Orangeburg, and Beaufort regarding his agenda for the Second Session of the 109th Congress:


December 21, 2005
Today, Congressman Joe Wilson (SC-02) proudly announced that he has nominated twenty-five South Carolina students to attend United States Service Academies:

December 19, 2005
Today, Congressman Joe Wilson announced that the U.S. House of Representatives has authorized the commissioning of a portrait of Dalip Singh Saund, the first Asian American and first Indian American ever elected to Congress.

December 18, 2005
Today, Congressman Joe Wilson (SC-02) made the following statement regarding President Bush's decision to nominate Reginald I. Lloyd to serve as the United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina:

December 16, 2005
"The House of Representatives has unshakable confidence that …United States Armed Forces, along with Iraqi and Coalition forces, shall achieve victory in Iraq."

December 15, 2005

Today, Congressman Joe Wilson (SC-02) made the following statement regarding Iraq's historic parliamentary elections:


December 14, 2005
On the eve of national elections in Iraq, members of the Victory in Iraq Caucus expressed their support for democracy in Iraq and solidarity with the Iraqi people:


December 8, 2005

Today, Congressman Joe Wilson (SC-02) voted in support of the Tax Relief Extension Reconciliation Act of 2005 (H.R.4297), which passed the House of Representatives by 234-197. This legislation will extend the reduced tax rates on capital gains and dividend income through 2010.


December 7, 2005
Today, Congressman Joe Wilson (SC-02) made the following statement:

"With the death of my friend Governor Carroll Campbell, our state lost a true South Carolina hero today.