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WASHINGTON - Sen. Jim DeMint and Gov. Mark Sanford urged members of the Senate on Wednesday to reject President Barack Obama's economic-stimulus bill, as DeMint introduced a rival measure he said required only tax cuts. Sanford, in Washington for a Republican Governors Association meeting, asked Republican senators at a Capitol Hill lunch convened by DeMint to follow the lead of House Republicans who voted against the $819 billion stimulus measure last week. The bill passed the House by a 244-188 margin without a single Republican vote. It would bring South Carolina $3.2 billion, including a $905 million to eliminate a...

U.S. Rep. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., today released a jobs plan he said would stimulate the economy with tax cuts and would create 18 million new jobs over 10 years and 7,000 S.C. jobs this year. DeMint has been one of the Congress' most vocal opponents of the stimulus bill making its way through U.S. Senate that includes possibly a $1 trillion in new spending and tax cuts. DeMint, who was joined in Washington, D.C. by Gov. Mark Sanford, another high-profile critic of the stimulus package, said tax cuts are a more responsible way to spark the nation's economy. "We think...