SC congressmen come home as US House goes on break

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — With the U.S. House off this week, several of South Carolina’s congressmen are returning home to talk to constituents.

U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan has nearly a dozen events scheduled across his western South Carolina district this week, including speeches to the Greenwood GOP Women’s Club and Anderson County GOP meeting on Monday.

U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy will tour Orbis Health Solutions in Greenville on Thursday to discuss the shortages of some cancer drugs for children.

And U.S. Rep. Mick Mulvaney is holding a press conference at the Resolute Forest Products paper plant near Rock Hill on Wednesday to introduce the Keeping Promises to Taxpayers Act of 2012. Mulvaney says the bill will repeal 12 different tax increases.