Reform Mired in Battle With Chamber

Key members of the South Carolina Senate spent nearly an hour of Tuesday's session fuming over an attack by the state Chamber of Commerce, as Senate committees struggled with a mass of proposed changes to 2007 workers' compensation reform. Senate President Pro Tem Glenn F. McConnell, R-Charleston, lead a raft of complaints on the Senate floor over a March 9 newsletter from the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce giving McConnell and three other senators a "thumbs down" for stalling the passage of S 332. The item published in the weekly newsletter characterized McConnell and Sens. Luke Ran...