" Senator Jim DeMint also attempted to use the nominations to force a hearing on the BBG, after frustrations with a perceived lack of congressional oversight over the organization.

* DeMint visited Honduras in 2009 and met with de facto president Roberto Micheletti, a meeting that was opposed by US President Barack Obama's administration.

When questioned by reporters, DeMint also stated that single mothers who live with their boyfriends should similarly be excluded from being educators.

At the start of November 2009, his new opponent, Carly Fiorina was suggesting, despite the fact that DeVore was garnering endorsements such as from Sen. Jim DeMint and almost 60 percent of California's elected Republican officials, including Rep. Tom McClintock, that he lacked the name recognition to provide her with a serious challenge in the primaries.

DeMint then faced Democratic state education superintendent Inez Tenenbaum in the November general election.

DeMint led Tenenbaum through much of the campaign and ultimately defeated her by 9. 6 percentage points.

Tenenbaum was the Democratic candidate for retiring Democrat Fritz Hollings's seat in the U. S. Senate ; she lost in the 2004 election to Republican Jim DeMint.

His parents, Betty W. ( née Rawlings ) and Thomas Eugene DeMint, divorced when he was five years old.

" Once the funds were attempted to be used for gun buybacks and other such anti-gun policies, Senator DeMint pushed through an amendment to the act stating that the money cannot be used for any anti-gun programs.

The AP report went on to say that President Obama had no intention of reimposing the doctrine, but Republicans ( led by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S. Carolina ) wanted more in the way of a guarantee that the doctrine would not be reimposed.

* Senator DeMint has been a consistent supporter of organized and led school prayer and has introduced legislation that would allow schools to display banners such as one stating " God Bless America ".

They are Senators Jim DeMint ( SC ) and Tom Coburn ( OK ); Senate candidates Sharron Angle ( NV ), Ken Buck ( CO ) ( endorsed after he won the primary ), Mike Lee ( UT ) ( endorsed after he won the primary, though the Club campaigned against Sen. Bennett before the state convention ), Ron Johnson ( WI ), Joe Miller ( AK ) ( endorsed after the Alaska primary ), Rand Paul ( KY ) ( endorsed after the Kentucky primary ), Marco Rubio ( FL ) and Pat Toomey ( PA ); Representative Tom Graves ( GA 9 ) and House candidates Justin Amash ( MI 3 ), Kevin Calvey ( OK 5 ), Jeff Duncan ( SC 3 ), Stephen Fincher ( TN 8 ) ( endorsed after primary ), Tim Griffin ( AR 2 ), David Harmer ( CA 11 ) ( endorsed after primary ), Andy Harris ( MD 1 ) ( endorsed after primary ), Nan Hayworth ( NY 19 ) ( endorsed after primary ), Tim Huelskamp ( KS 1 ), Jesse Kelly ( AZ 8 ) ( endorsed after primary ), Mick Mulvaney ( SC 5 )( endorsed after primary ), Mike Pompeo ( KS 4 ), Kevin Rothfus ( PA 4 ) ( endorsed after primary ), Dave Schweikert ( AZ 5 ) ( endorsed after primary ), Tim Scott ( SC 1 ), Robin Smith ( TN 3 ), and Todd Young ( IN 9 ) ( endorsed after primary ).

* Jim DeMint, U. S. Senator from South Carolina

The conservative fiscal watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste awarded Ensign a 92 % lifetime rating — the fourth highest Senator after Jim DeMint, Tom Coburn and Jon Kyl — as of 2007.

Grassley has opposed conservative Senators like Tom Coburn ( R-OK ) and Jim DeMint ( R-SC ) for wanting to bring an end to ethanol subsidies.

Beasley lost the Republican nomination to Congressman Jim DeMint of Greenville, South Carolina.

On February 25, 2008, Senator Jim DeMint ( R-SC ) amended bill S-1200, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.

James Warren " Jim " DeMint ( born September 2, 1951 ) is the junior United States Senator from South Carolina, serving since 2005.

DeMint was born in Greenville, South Carolina, one of four children.

Following the divorce, Betty DeMint operated a dance studio out of the family's home.

DeMint was educated at Christ Church Episcopal School and Wade Hampton High School in Greenville.

DeMint played drums for a cover band called Salt & Pepper.

DeMint worked in the field of market research.

* DeMint is ranked by The National Journal as one of the most conservative members of the Senate.

* DeMint opposes spending increases of the federal government.

* DeMint favors a balanced-budget amendment to the U. S. Constitution.

Nevertheless Thom's legacy remains strong, Krupp wrote in 1979, " Almost singlehandedly he has established the standards for archaeo-astronomical fieldwork and interpretation, and his amazing results have stirred controversy during the last three decades.

This stirred a lot of controversy because of its ethical implications.

The production stirred deep controversy by featuring nude performers in Mickey Mouse masks dancing on the ruins of the World Trade Center and a female singer with a painted on Hitler toothbrush moustache performing a straight arm Nazi salute, along with sinister portrayals of American soldiers, Uncle Sam, and Elvis Presley impersonators.

It stirred up controversy by portraying the lives of working class women and attacking the straight-laced, deeply religious society of mid-20th century Quebec.

Strength Thru Oi !, an album compiled by Bushell and released in May 1981, stirred controversy, especially when it was revealed that the belligerent figure on the cover was a neo-Nazi jailed for racist violence ( Bushell claimed ignorance ).

His nomination stirred up controversy about the mixing of whites and blacks in public life and fears of miscegenation ( especially as he had married a much younger white woman after his first wife died.

On 26 March 1564 Knox stirred controversy again, when he married Margaret Stewart, the daughter of an old friend, Andrew Stewart, Lord Ochiltree, a member of the Stuart family and a distant relative of the Queen, Mary Stuart.

The reign of Charles XII ( 1697 – 1718 ) has stirred great controversy ; historians have been puzzled ever since why this military genius overreached and greatly weakened Sweden.

This was a difficult goal to achieve, especially in a new industry, and within a short time the AEC's programs stirred considerable controversy.

Loos ' stripped-down buildings influenced the minimal massing of modern architecture, and stirred controversy.

Nijinsky took the creative reins and choreographed ballets, which pushed boundaries and stirred controversy.

Although Nash wasn't traded, General Manager Scott Howson publicly announced that he had privately requested a trade, a move that has stirred up much controversy.

The musician Taco Ockerse stirred up controversy in 1983 by using dancers in blackface for his hit synthpop version of Puttin ' on the Ritz.

The painting sparked public notoriety and stirred up controversy and has remained controversial, even to this day.

In 1832, Prudence Crandall, a schoolteacher raised as a Quaker, stirred controversy when she opened a school for black girls in town.

The photo on the left is of Courtney Love during her childhood in Oregon. Cobain's death also stirred controversy surrounding the final track on Live Through This — " Rock Star "— which contained lyrics that read: " How'd you like to be Nirvana ?/ So much fun to be Nirvana / A barrel of laughs to be Nirvana / Say you'd rather die ".

More controversy was stirred at a Pittsburgh Lollapalooza concert in the fall of 1995, when Love stormed offstage with the band in tears after an audience member threw shotgun shells at her, referencing speculation that she may have been involved in husband Kurt Cobain's death.

Nonetheless, as with the rumors surrounding the writing credits on Live Through This, unwarranted controversy stirred over the authorship of the songs.

The CD re-release stirred controversy among Daniel Amos fans by the inclusion of two bonus tracks: Tribute recordings that Larry recorded for the When Worlds Collide: A Tribute to Daniel Amos CD that he decided to include at the end of the Horrendous Disc CD.

Baldwin's second novel, Giovanni's Room, stirred controversy when it was first published in 1956 due to its explicit homoerotic content.

The music video stirred much controversy, showing the girls kissing and caressing each other in soaking wet school uniforms.

On October 3, 2006, Harris participated in a prayer service via phone call and stirred even more controversy.

It stirred up controversy and was criticized initially, and it became a lightning rod for feminists.

In the same year he edited Aids to Faith, a volume written in opposition to Essays and Reviews, the progressive sentiments of which had stirred up controversy in the Church of England.

While the college has recycled some historic buildings into new uses, it has also stirred up much controversy by seeking to demolish historic buildings surrounding the campus.