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  U.S. Congressman Mike Pence : 6th District Of Indiana
Mike Pence was born in Columbus, Indiana, graduated from Hanover College in 1981 and earned his Doctorate in Jurisprudence from Indiana University School of Law in 1986.
Pence was elected to Congress in November 2000 and was re-elected to the Sixth Congressional District, encompassing much of the eastern half of Indiana, in 2002 and 2004.
Pence has worked closely with Senator Richard Lugar to advance the vision of Freedom to Farm and is the author of the Farm Flexibility Act (or "Farm Flex"), which would give American farmers freedom to diversify their crops without fear of excessive penalties.
mikepence.house.gov /Biography   (602 words)

  
 Mike Pence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael Richard "Mike" Pence (born June 7, 1959) is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana's 6th District (see map).
Mike Pence has been mentioned as a possible candidate for President in 2008.
Pence is one of the House's most ardent conservatives.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mike_Pence   (494 words)

  
 Irregular Times Rating and Contact Information for Representative Mike Pence of IN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Pence has not yet cosponsored H.R., which would provide more information to the public about contacts between lobbyists and politicians, and which would slow down the revolving door of politics in which politicians move into cushy corporate jobs after they retire in exchange for favors.
Pence has not yet cosponsored H.R., which would put an end to the practice of "extraordinary rendition," in which Bush Administration officials send people into the custody of certain nations, knowing full well (some would say intending) that they will be tortured there.
Mike Pence has not yet cosponsored H.R., which would keep members of the Federal Communication Commission from using their appointed positions to censor cable, satellite or internet programs they consider to be indecent.
irregularbin.com /house/PenceIN6.html   (2420 words)

  
 2005 Man of the Year: Rep. Mike Pence by Lawrence Kudlow
Pence is a third-term congressman from Indiana’s 6th District, in the middle of the state.
Pence is a church-going evangelical who believes that “the sanctity of human life is the central axiom of Western civilization.” He supports traditional marriage and he refuses to accept gambling money for his campaigns.
Certainly, Pence is the kind of new blood that the GOP needs if it is to follow through on a return to the first principles of budget and tax cutting–along with protecting the unborn and spreading freedom and democracy worldwide in order to gain victory over the terrorists.
www.humanevents.com /article.php?id=11069   (1234 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Congress Poised to Debate Modification to Federal Stem Cell Rules -- May 23, 2005
MIKE PENCE: Well, I have to tell you that when you look at the steady march of human history, including, frankly, some very frightening chapters of the 20th century, the human record is not very encouraging when we come across societies who step across the simple notion that the human life is sacred.
MIKE PENCE: I have to admit, Jeffrey, to Diana that it may be today that the majority of the American public supports embryonic stem cell research as a principle.
MIKE PENCE: Well, but I think the jury is out on whether a majority of Americans support using federal tax dollars to fund research that destroys human embryos; that destroys human life.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/health/jan-june05/stemcell_5-23.html   (1707 words)

  
 Indiana Right To Life
Congressman Mike Pence was born in Columbus, Indiana.
Pence was elected in November 2000 to represent the interests of Indiana's 2nd Congressional District on Capitol Hill.
Pence is the sole Hoosier Republican on the House Agriculture Committee.
www.indianalife.org /html/events/mikepence.asp   (521 words)

  
 VDARE.com: 06/07/06 - Congressman Mike Pence and the Amnesty Lobby
Pence is not the first ambitious politician in Washington, DC to be seduced by the siren song of cheap labor, but his proposal is especially noxious because of its deceptive packaging.
Pence asserts his plan meets this test by requiring all illegal aliens now employed to cross the Mexican border and then return one week later to the same jobs with their freshly minted work permits.
According to the Krieble plan that Pence has now adopted, this one-week turnaround will be guaranteed by giving that task to private sector labor brokers who will coordinate background checks and match each worker to the same job they have been working illegally if their employers wants them to return.
www.vdare.com /misc/060607_henry.htm   (2126 words)

  
 Mike Pence for President 2008   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
After the fierce battle and the longest vote in Congressional history, Mike Pence was soon recognized by all of his conservative colleagues as the leader of the conservative movement.
Mike Pence’s effective leadership has been responsible for such victories as “Operation Offset” and has inspired several within his band of rebels to continue to advance the agenda of limited government and fiscal discipline.
Mike Pence, R-Ind., is chairman of the Republican Study Committee.
www.pence08.com   (1339 words)

  
 Mike Pence - Congresspedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Michael Pence is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana's 6th District (map) since 2001.
Pence was born June 7, 1959 in Columbus, Indiana.
Pence is the head of the conservative Republican Study Group which recently pushed, successfully, for cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and student loans.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Mike_Pence   (681 words)

  
 CNN.com - Rep. Mike Pence: National security - October 30, 2001
PENCE: I think the reason why the Justice Department has issued the general warning is because they have been presented with clear and convincing evidence of an imminent terrorist threat against targets either within the U.S. or of significance to the U.S. abroad.
PENCE: I think the threat of exposure to ordinary Americans for anthrax conveyed through the mail is virtually zero.
PENCE: I believe that with strong leadership from the president, the Congress will be taking action in the very near term to greatly restrict access to student visas, and also to greatly enhance our general border security.
edition.cnn.com /2001/COMMUNITY/10/30/pence   (1156 words)

  
 Daily Pundit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The “Pence Plan” was introduced today, which explains why John Fund was stumping for it yesterday.
There have been several reports Republican legislators are seriously considering getting behind Pence’s approach, which offers the lure of apparently tough enforcement now in exchange for amnesty plus opening the floodgates to tens of millions of new immigrants.
Hutchison and Pence explain their plan -- a vapor barrier on the border plus a huge new bureaucratic system to admit and monitor some 12 million former illegals.
www.dailypundit.com /2006/07/mike_pence_rolls_out_his_immig.php   (397 words)

  
 Whatever Happened to Mike Pence?
Pence has turned his back on the 88 percent of House Republicans who voted that we must achieve border security first, because we'll be cheated on border security if Congress passes a "comprehensive" bill.
Pence's plan calls for setting up privately financed offices outside the U.S., with the cutesy title Ellis Island Centers, to hand out the new W visas, which he claims would be more efficient than government bureaucracy.
Pence says that the Ellis Island Centers will be able to match workers with jobs, perform health screening, fingerprinting, and convey information to the FBI and Homeland Security for a background check in "a matter of one week, or less." We'll have to see that to believe it.
www.eagleforum.org /column/2006/june06/06-06-28.html   (907 words)

  
 USNews.com: And now, batting right: Christian, conservative, and Republican, in that order
Mike Pence of Indiana, says a GOP colleague, is "the most effective communicator we've had."
Known as a "conservative's conservative" on fiscal and social issues, Pence chairs an influential group of more than 110 Republican spending hawks who are winning major victories in their battle for smaller government.
Pence and his allies, however, can hardly be called "a few." More than 110 House Republicans out of a total of 231 belong to the conservative Republican Study Committee that he chairs.
www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/060424/24pence.htm   (604 words)

  
 RealClearPolitics - Articles - The Stealth Amnesty of Mike Pence
Rep. Mike Pence appears to have accepted the Tessio role in the great immigration battle of 2006.
The only difference between the Pence plan and the Kennedy-Bush amnesty is the one-week vacation employers would happily fund, as it means blanket amnesty for them as well as their illegal hires.
If the House buys the Pence plan, it will be the end of Republican control of the House in November and the end of Mike Pence as a rising star of the GOP.
www.realclearpolitics.com /articles/2006/06/the_stealth_amnesty_of_mike_pe.html   (820 words)

  
 USNews.com: Inside Washington: What You Didn't Know About Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana
Mike Pence was born June 7, 1959, in Columbus, Ind., into a family of Irish Catholic Democrats.
Pence practiced law after finishing law school and, in 1991, was named president of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation (a conservative think tank based in Indiana).
The 1990 campaign was marred by questionable campaign tactics, which Pence later expressed regret over in an article titled "Confessions of a Negative Campaigner." When he ran again in 2000, he focused on the issues and was this time victorious, elected to represent the "Hoosier values" of east-central Indiana.
www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/061115/15pencefacts.htm   (711 words)

  
 Project Vote Smart - Representative Pence - Interest Group Ratings
Spring 05 Representative Pence supported the interests of the Conservative Index - The John Birch Society 13 percent in Spring 05.
Spring 04 Representative Pence supported the interests of the Conservative Index - The John Birch Society 38 percent in Spring 04.
Fall 2004 Representative Pence supported the interests of the Conservative Index - The John Birch Society 50 percent in Fall 2004.
vote-smart.org /issue_rating_category.php?can_id=MIN10394&...+Issues   (9081 words)

  
 TIME.com: A Compromise Plan on Immigration -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The proposal by Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), provided to TIME ahead of an unveiling speech at the Heritage Foundation, is arguably less compassionate than the version being debated in the Senate and supported in principle by President George W. Bush.
Pence, a lawyer and former radio and television host, is chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the caucus of House conservatives, but the group did not offer the plan because it’s split on how to handle immigration overhaul.
Pence’s measure would create private worker placement agencies called Ellis Island Centers, licensed by the federal government to match approved guest workers with jobs that cannot be filled by Americans — a variation on an idea offered by Bush back in January 2004.
www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,1196991,00.html   (1003 words)

  
 Suitably Flip: Mike Pence for Minority Leader
Mike Pence (R-IN), who is angling for the role of House Minority Leader in this Friday's leadership elections.
Pence compared the upcoming contest to that of a senior class president election, a race he was quick to note he won.
With many wayward legislators on his own side of the aisle, however, a truly effective leader will be one who manages to restore what Pence referred to as the "foundation of public confidence in Republican governance" which has eroded in large part thanks to many GOP legislators departing from the Spirit of '94.
suitablyflip.blogs.com /suitably_flip/2006/11/mike_pence_for_.html   (746 words)

  
 Welsh Appalled at Mike Pence Support for Hastert | Barry Welsh for Congress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Pence shows poor judgment in supporting his friends in Congress instead of doing what is morally correct.
Pence has positioned himself as a part of the cover-up and an enabler of child predators.
Yesterday, Mike Pence called on Speaker Hastert not to resign in the face of charges that Hastert had known about Congressman Foley’s predatory behavior for three years.
barrywelsh.org /?q=node/781   (538 words)

  
 Save The GOP » Mike Pence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Pence, proud grandson of an Irish immigrant, says the only bill that can pass in this year’s hothouse environment may have to be one that couples stiffer border enforcement with a no-amnesty guest-worker program.
Mike Pence has put a bill on the table to handle the illegal immigration.
Whereas Congressman Pence stated on September 26, 2005, in a speech to the Young America’s Foundation, “The conservative movement is at a crossroads in America.
www.savethegop.com /archives/category/white-house-2008/mike-pence   (1328 words)

  
 Daily Pundit
That’s why I find Mike Pence's past support for the so-called Pence immigration compromise so troubling.
He still likes the "Pence Plan," whoever dreamed it up, but at least he admits it's a dead letter, and he sound willing to fight the standard buryer of his party over the issue.
Pence is saying, narrowly, that he’s against “amnesty.” Even George Bush says that.
www.dailypundit.com /2006/11/frum_on_mike_pence.php   (683 words)

  
 Compromise may hurt Pence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
For his efforts Pence is now the subject of harsh criticism from both sides of the debate.
Pence’s plan is the ’86 amnesty with a trip home tacked on.” MSNBC commentator Pat Buchanan this week joined the fray with a column attacking Pence as a traitor to the conservative cause because of his “stealth amnesty” plan.
Pence misread Gilchrist’s comments as support for his plan and announced Monday at The Heritage Foundation that the Minuteman leader was in favor.
www.heritage.org /Press/Commentary/ed061606b.cfm   (842 words)

  
 Target Pence and these Congressmen - Team America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Former Conservative Hero Mike Pence has announced his own guestworker/amnesty plan which he has the gall to call a "No Amnesty Solution." House Republicans are our only barrier against the flood of immigrants that the senate amnesty will bring and Pence is the hole in the dike.
Mike, Lifeboat America’s passengers and crew have to strap you to the mast as we chart this course through the rocky waters of the immigration debate.
The so-called compromise proposed by Rep. Mike Pence would place no limit whatsoever on the numbers of foreign workers who could be imported by U.S. employers from any country anywhere in the world.
www.teamamericapac.org /index.php?p=53   (1019 words)

  
 Say Anything: North Dakota's Most Popular Political Blog - The Chink In Mike Pence’s Armor
Now Pence is certainly a principled conservative on most issues, but before anyone jumps on the bandwagon for naming this guy minority leader in the House it should be considered that he’s not exactly conservative when it comes to one key issue: illegal immigration.
Pence’s plan simply gives them a license to do so legally and gives the licensed foreign recruitment centers a mushy name, “Ellis Island Centers.” It does offer the real benefit that aliens hired through such centers could be screened, were the government willing to do so.
Pence is a good guy, generally, but I think we need to think twice before encouraging the GOP to put this guy in a leadership role.
sayanythingblog.com /entry/the_chink_in_mike_pences_armor   (1135 words)

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