Mike Burns | |
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Member of the South CarolinaHouseofRepresentatives from the 17th district | |
Assumed office 2013 | |
Preceded by | Tom Corbin |
Personal details | |
Born | Columbia,South Carolina,U.S. | June 9,1952
Political party | Republican |
James Mikell "Mike" Burns (born June 9,1952) is an American politician. He is a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from the 17th District,serving since 2013. He is a member of the Republican party. [1] [2]
Burns is a member of the South Carolina Freedom Caucus. [3] [4] He also serves on the House Agriculture,Natural Resources &Environmental Affairs and the Regulations and Administrative Procedures Committees. [5]
On December 13,2017,Burns and fellow South Carolina representative Bill Chumley proposed building a monument to South Carolina's black Confederate soldiers,although the historical record shows that no such soldiers existed. [6]
In the 2023-2024 [7] and 2025-2026 [8] sessions of the South Carolina House of Representatives,Burns has filed bills to ban all plant and animal based foods [9] [10] from being "Certified SC Grown" food. The bills put forward would all ban foods that contain mRNA from being considered "Certified SC Grown" food.