Mike Pence: “I would reflect at the outset about World Press Freedom Day which was the very day that we launched the Congressional…”

“I would reflect at the outset about World Press Freedom Day which was the very day that we launched the Congressional Caucus For Freedom of the Press back on May 3, 2006, the profound importance of the freedom of the press and my belief that the United States of America ought to be a beacon of freedom for the world. We ought to inspire, we ought to articulate, we ought to use our freedom, as the gentleman from California is doing today in this Special Order, to highlight the absence of freedom in other parts of the globe. A few thoughts on freedom of the press. I would offer where there is no freedom of the press, there is no freedom. If America is to be a beacon of hope for the world, we must hold high the idea of a free and independent press. We must advance it abroad and we must defend it at home.”