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From 1992 to 1999, Congressman Pence would espouse these credentials every day on his syndicated talk show heard throughout Indiana. In November of 2004, he was re-elected to his third term in the United States Congress from Indiana’s 6th Congressional District. Mike Pence personifies the core conservative values of the Red-State-Midwest commonly known as “Hoosier Values.” Born in Columbus, Indiana into an extremely patriotic family (Mike still cherishes the Bronze Star his father was awarded in Korea,) Mike’s parents instilled in him the values that became the guiding principles throughout his life. As example, when Pence was attending Law School,...

MIKE PENCE If the Republican majority in the Senate and House can somehow stave off a newly energized Democratic assault in the mid-term elections next November and preserve their governing status, they may well have Indiana congressman Mike Pence to thank. It has been Pence and his roughly 100 colleagues in the House Republican Study Committee (RSC) who have almost single-handedly stopped the chronic GOP overspending of the past five years and forced the first full-fledged budget-cutting bill since 1997. In doing so, Pence and his dedicated band of principled House members have begun to force the GOP back to...

Virginia Senator disregards conservative base Last night the House voted 260 to 159 to approve an amendment to the bill sponsored by House Armed Services Chairman Duncan Hunter (R.-Calif.) to authorize construction of several hundred miles of fencing along five strategic stretches of border. Before the scheduled vote, Human Events Assistant Editor Amanda Carpenter asked Republicans if they thought the U.S. had the engineering capability to build a fence that would keep illegal aliens out, and the obvious follow-up: If we can build one, why not do it? Sen. George Allen (R.-Va.), a likely 2008 presidential candidate, carefully straddled the...

Governor says he’ll serve 4 years if re-elected Gov. Mark Sanford “absolutely” will not run for president in 2008. In a wide-ranging interview with The State newspaper in his State House office last week, Sanford said he would not be a candidate for president in the 2008 Republican primary. Sanford will seek re-election as governor in 2006. “Should I get re-elected,” Sanford said, “I absolutely am serving all four years, because we just have some huge issues here in South Carolina that are just an immense challenge.” Sanford has said in the past that he was not planning to run...

The leader of the House Republican Study Committee, a group of 107 conservatives, says he has no intention of seeking the majority leader post in the House of Representatives should his party call for new elections to permanently replace Rep. Tom DeLay. But Rep. Mike Pence (R.-Ind.) also wouldn’t rule out the possibility, telling HUMAN EVENTS today: “I’m not calling for leadership elections, and I have no intention, at this time, of seeking a leadership position in the Republican majority.” DeLay, the Texas Republican who had to surrender the majority leader job upon his indictment in September, could face a...

Pence attends Bush Iraq speech at Annapolis, files blog entry Congressman Calls Address "Forceful and Effective" ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND— At the invitation of the White House, Rep. Mike Pence (IN-6) attended President Bush's address at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, this morning. “The President delivered a forceful and effective defense of the strategy and stakes facing our nation in Iraq. From inside the arena, it appeared that the President was both at ease and determined. He pounded the facts about our enemy, their aims and our progress in Iraq into the American debate." Full Text Before the speech: “I am...

The final vote on the bill to create the largest new entitlement in decades was 220-215, but it was even closer than that for most of Saturday morning. Rep. Mike Pence (R.-Ind.), who spearheaded the conservative opposition to the prescription drug entitlement (H.R.?1) in the House, called his own efforts a "successful failure." Pointing out that the conservative opposition to the bill grew by six votes since June, he compared the stand by 25 principled House conservatives against the bill to the battle of the Alamo. The new votes for the bill, whose earlier version passed by just one vote...

Amid its disarray last week, the House of Representatives did do one good deed: It included the repeal of the anti-trade Byrd Amendment as part of its budget reconciliation. The White House is also pushing repeal, so opponents are now hoping Senators (including a Republican who wants to run for President) will keep this protectionism alive. "Byrd" is named after West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, who snuck it into a 2001 spending bill without debate. The amendment gives companies that sue for "anti-dumping" relief any duties that the government imposes on foreign competitors. U.S. companies that decline to join any...

Since taking the lead of the Republican Study Committee at the beginning of the year, Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., has charted a more aggressive course for the 106-member group of House conservatives, first confronting party leaders over budget rules and now again on how to pay for hurricane-related spending. For many of the party’s fiscally conservative supporters, the surge of spending for Katrina relief was the final straw from an administration that was spending at levels they considered unacceptable. Even excluding spending on defense, homeland security and Katrina relief, discretionary federal spending has risen 33 percent since President Bush took...

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Last week during our Coalitions Lunch at Free Congress Foundation one of the 80-odd participants learned that Tom DeLay had been indicted in Texas and, therefore, had to step aside as Majority Leader. The wire service story suggested that Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) would appoint House Rules Committee Chairman David Drier (R-CA) as Acting Majority Leader. One of our participants quickly drafted a letter to Speaker Hastert saying we did not want to undercut the chain of command and we supported Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO) to be Acting Majority Leader. Nearly everyone signed the letter. My colleague Bob...

following are remarks by Congressman Mike Pence at a Young America's Foundation Capitol Hill event for interns on September 26, 2005. I come today with a sense of privilege and gratitude. It’s a privilege to speak to men and women from which will likely come the future of our Party and our nation. And gratitude to Young America's Foundation, who hosts me today, and who welcomed me last month to the home of my hero. A home nestled in the Santa Inez Mountains of California, Rancho del Cielo, the Reagan Ranch. Thanks to YAF, my wife and our three small...