Mike Pence

on Monday I had the profound honor of being the first Hoosier to welcome President George W. Bush to the great State of Indiana on his very first visit there. As the President trod the sawdust of the Indiana State Fair Grounds, he was…

Mr. Speaker, despite what the economists tell us America is in recession. My districts in eastern Indiana has seen job loss since the final days of the Clinton administration and that economic collapse has gone forwards unabated. The time…

America stands with Israel. This weekend as the Secretary of State begins a key phase of negotiations in the road map for peace, I am confident he will remember this core value of the American people. America is not a neutral party in the…

it is written, if you owe taxes, pay taxes. No law-abiding American anywhere would argue the point. But one of my predecessors in this Chamber, Jack Kemp, also famously said, what you tax you get less of, what you subsidize you get more…

there is an epidemic of AIDS and HIV in Africa that can be described as a pandemic on that continent, 42 million infected with HIV, 8,500 deaths every day, entire villages in Africa where there is no single living adult. Yesterday as I sat…

just three weeks from the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the battle for Baghdad is drawing to a close. Less than 2 hours ago, amidst the cheers and grateful smiles of the newly freed people of Iraq, the 3rd Army met the 1st Marine…

The Pence amendment will make it a criminal act to knowingly use a misleading domain name with the intent to deceive a person into viewing obscenity on the Internet; and, most especially, it would make it a criminal act to knowingly use a…

I rise today as the author of the Pence amendment, the Truth in Domain Names Act, as a legislator, as a member of the Committee on the Judiciary, its Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property; but also, most…

I rise this evening to denounce the creation and the broadcast of the inhumane treatment of United States prisoners of war held by the Iraqi military, photographed by the Iraqi military in violation of the Geneva Convention and broadcast…

today is a solemn day. History awaits America tonight, and while I would never question the patriotism of anyone who would challenge the wisdom of U.S. policy exercising their first amendment rights on this floor or in this Nation, I will…

last night President George W. Bush spoke with vision and courage and in keeping with the highest ideals of this Nation and its storied history. It is clear that the long nightmare of the Iraqi people is about to come to an end. Diplomacy…

surely he came to save that which was lost. As the father of two beautiful daughters, I was elated last night to see a little girl by the name of Elizabeth Smart lost 9 months ago to her family and her community restored to hearth and…

long ago it was written, ``Choose this day whom you will serve.'' Today, as we go about the people's business in this House of Representatives, in another body on the east coast of this country, an international security council meets and…

I was here on September 11, 2001. I saw the skies filled with mud-brown smoke rising from the devastation at the Pentagon. I felt that anger that every American felt then and that continues to simmer in the lesser angels of our nature to…

Today marks the 30th day since the Shuttle Columbia disaster, and thus the end of what is for Jews around the world a traditional 30-day mourning period for the untimely death of Israeli astronaut Colonel Ilan Ramon. It is my privilege to…

as our Nation mobilizes in every way, and most especially our military, to confront the war on terror, as our soldiers in numbers exceeding 150,000 prepare in a theater overseas for possible confrontation, a brief word about the…

I rise in strong and grateful support for the Human Cloning Prohibition Act and for the extraordinary efforts of my colleague, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Weldon), in conceiving of and promoting this bill over the last several years. I…

tonight I rise more as a father than as a Member of Congress. I am, proudly, the father of three small children, all under the age of 11. And today when I introduced the Truth in Domain Names Act, I did it very much with Michael and…

we will confront many issues in the 108th Congress. They will have to do with the economy; our own budget; a debate over cloning, which will come to the House floor this week and to this very Chamber moments from now; reforming Medicare…

I rise today reminded of the tribute that we have paid to a former President named Ronald Reagan just a few days ago on what was his 92nd birthday. I think of what Ronald Reagan spoke about as a vision for welfare in America. He said, "It…

the history of our Nation was forged in the balmy summer of 1787 in what was at the time the statehouse of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. There the geniuses who created the Constitution of the United States created three separate branches…

it was made official last week: our alert status is high. For many Americans, this call for high vigilance has resulted in high anxieties. And in these days of war and rumors of war, we are even hearing the voice of our enemy echo across…

it was written long ago that without a vision, the people perish. Tonight, the President of the United States from this very Chamber will offer a vision of moral clarity and purpose and resolve for the American people and the world. It…

like many people across eastern Indiana, I was shocked and dismayed yesterday to learn of the complete elimination of over 400 manufacturing jobs from Anderson, Indiana. It is therefore altogether fitting that we would as our first…

from the time I arrived in Washington, D.C., now fully more than 2 years ago, I pledged myself to my constituents in eastern Indiana to fight to renew the American Dream; that is that dream of every American, whatever their race, whatever…