Posted on 09/23/2005 5:41:36 AM PDT by Gipper08
HERNDON, Va., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- On Monday, September 26 Congressman Mike Pence of Indiana will discuss with Capitol Hill interns why the conservative leadership in Congress has abandoned its allegiance to the principles of smaller government. The event will begin at 3:30 pm in Room 1334 of the Longworth House Office Building. Pence has been one of the lone conservatives speaking out against massive spending splurges, including the Prescription/Drug Medicare and Highway bills, and most recently, the hurricane relief bill. Currently, Pence is leading the charge of what has been called "Operation Offset," a strategic move to delay and cut other substantial expenditures in order to give aid responsibly to the victims of Katrina. According to Pence, "Congress must ensure that a catastrophe of nature does not become a catastrophe of debt for our children and grandchildren." "We are honored to have this distinguished leader with us to address students and interns on his efforts to advance fiscal responsibility and conservatism in an unfriendly Congress," said Jason Mattera, spokesman for Young America's Foundation. "Congressman Pence is not shy about his values and beliefs." Pence has emerged as a national spokesman for conservative principles. In 1992, he started a career in radio broadcasting. Pence was elected to Congress in November 2000 and was reelected to the Sixth Congressional District encompassing much of Eastern Indiana in 2002 and 2004.
Free posters will be given out
As the principal outreach organization of the Conservative Movement for 35 years, Young America's Foundation introduces thousands of young people to conservative ideas through national conferences, campus lectures and activism programs, internships, and seminars at the Reagan Ranch. Young America's Foundation preserves the Reagan Ranch as a premier presidential property and living tribute to Ronald Reagan's life and ideas.
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Conservatives have not given up, Republicans on the other hand......
Only the elected ones!
exactly
republican politicians are NOT conservatives
I don't think fiscal conservatives have given up, but the Repubs have.
I haven't given up on smaller government but I am giving up on the majority of republicans.
Mike Pence....good man...fiscally conservative....supports our troops in Iraq...pro life....believes in God....What's not to like about this guy....!
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Lockstep republicans are part of the problem.
There is nothing not to like!!!
Ditto.
I wonder if it is not the environment in Washington. Everyday, all day they meet with people asking for something.
Sometimes they just need to say NO.
It's like Rush says. DC is a very liberal town and once these guys get elected and get to DC the most important thing in the world to most of them is to be liked and respected by the power establishment in that cesspool. Getting invited to the right cocktail party and a favorable write up in the Washington Post is more important than trimming the budget to a lot of these clowns.
"Conservatives have not given up, Republicans on the other hand......"
EXACTLY!! When you go from a budget of less than 500 Billion dollars in 1984 to over two Trillion dollars now...and the republicans have been in contol of the congress for the last ten year, how else would you put it??? Spend is all these politicians know regardless of party affiliation.
AND I am sick of it!! It seems like the Republicans have had their chance and they are blowing it BIG TIME!!
The republican party is NOT the party of conservatives and conservatism.
Tell it to Mike Pence.
I find it quite amusing actually what power does to people. Out here i've known a few people who were mad at all the republican shenanigans going on(big government spending, medicare, pork barrell blah blah blah blah) and would always bitch about it, but then a good chunk of them went off to work for the republican party apparatus locally. Within a few months they were spewing the party line and saying suck it up and vote for the lesser of two evils and that yea were spending more but who cares at least were not spending as much as democrats would and we've got tax cuts and we've got the iraq war who cares about spending. Amazing how easily power corrupts.
Last Wednesday, Rep. Mike Pence, chairman of the House Republican Study Committee, joined colleagues at a press conference to flesh out their "Operation Offset" report, which laid out more than $900 billion in potential budget savings to offset the cost of Hurricane Katrina and other unexpected budget busters.
My initial, and enduring, thought is that if 900 bil can be "offset" why can't that same 900 bil be permanently deleted? I'm confident Rep. Pence feels this way too, only he's in the definite minority in the House...on both sides of the aisle.
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