COLUMBIA — South Carolina steel companies are pushing a bill to require state and local officials to build all taxpayer-funded projects using U.S.-made steel and iron.
A House panel voted unanimously to advance the bill Tuesday after hearing from steel giant Nucor Corp., as well as American SpiralWeld, a company with operations in Columbia that turns Nucor’s steel into pipe.
“If we’re going to spend our taxpayer dollars, we would rather it come back to places like Darlington County,” said Republican Rep. Richie Yow, whose district covers a Nucor steel plant in Darlington…