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CHARLESTON, SC - With the support of the national law enforcement, animal welfare, and conservation and mainstream zoological communities, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the Big Cat Public Safety Act, H.R. 263, on Friday by a vote of 278 to 134. H.R. 263 was introduced by bipartisan Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., and Mike Quigley, R-Ill., and was actively supported on the floor by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-Mt. Pleasant, who was a cosponsor of the bill and voted in support of the measure. Rep. Tom Rice, who represents Myrtle Beach, where one of the last 'cub petting' operations in the U.S. exists, voted in support of the measure as well as Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-Charleston, who whipped the entire Democrat Conference into voting in support of the bill. Rep. Ralph Norman, R-Rock Hill, was a cosponsor of the bill but abstained from the vote.

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — A local political expert said Russell Fry’s win over incumbent Tom Rice on Tuesday is noteworthy for its decisiveness. State Rep. Russell Fry won the republican nomination for the U.S. House of Representatives District 7 seat after beating Rice, who was one of 10 republicans who voted to impeach former […]

A Republican congressman who voted to impeach former US President Donald Trump has been thrown out of office by voters in his district. Tom Rice, a five-term South Carolina incumbent, was beaten in a primary election by Trump-backed challenger Russell Fry, a state legislator. But another Republican in the state...

Georgetown County voters joined the wave that swept U.S. Rep. Tom Rice from his 7th Congressional District seat in Tuesday’s GOP primary. State Rep. Russell Fry garnered 51 percent of the overall vote in the crowded race that featured seven candidates. Rice was got 25 percent. In Georgetown County,...

South Carolina Republican Tom Rice told Meet the Press NOW that he has no regrets about his vote to impeach former President Donald Trump even as he faces a primary challenge on Tuesday backed by the former president that threatens to spurn him from office. Rice said he would "support...

State Rep. Russell Fry thanks supporters after a projected win over Rep. Tom Rice in South Carolina’s 7th Congressional District.June 15, 2022.

The congressman was one of 10 House GOP members who voted in favor of impeaching Trump after the U.S. Capitol riot.

Trump has endorsed primary challengers to South Carolina Reps. Tom Rice and Nancy Mace. Rice voted to impeach him over the Capitol riot.

SOUTH CAROLINA (WPDE) — It was one of several closely watched races around the country; South Carolina's 7th Congressional District. Russell Fry, the Trump endorsed candidate came out on top, defeating incumbent Tom Rice. Rice was criticized for voting to impeach the former president after the January sixth Capitol...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina has been ousted from Congress in his Republican primary after voting to impeach Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 insurrection. He is the first of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump to lose a reelection bid. Rice,...

Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C.) lost his reelection bid to Trump-endorsed challenger Russell Fry on Tuesday night, according to AP. Why it matters: Rice is the first House Republican to lose his reelection to a Republican primary challenger after voting to impeach former President Trump over his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Five-term Rep. Tom Rice has lost the Republican primary to represent South Carolina in the U.S. House to state Rep. Russell Fry, who was endorsed by former president Donald Trump, while Rep. Nancy Mace fended off her own Trump-backed primary challenger. Rice conceded to Fry Tuesday, Fox News has learned,...

Russell Fry decisively defeated the South Carolina incumbent.