Special session begins Tuesday to deal with unemployment, Sanford impeachment

South Carolina lawmakers are returning to the Statehouse this week to discuss unemployment benefits.
   
Lawmakers return Tuesday for a one-day discussion over a bill to extend emergency benefits to thousands. Leaders summoned lawmakers to Columbia earlier this month after the benefits ran out for nearly 7,000 unemployed South Carolinians.
   
One lawmaker is also expected to bring up a resolution to impeach Gov. Mark Sanford. Rep. Greg Delleney says the measure accuses Sanford of dereliction of duty for abandoning his post to rendezvous with his Argentine lover without telling his chain of command where he was.
   
The State Ethics Commission is also conducting a criminal ethics investigation into Sanford’s use of state planes for personal and political purposes.