Mike Pence

it is June 6, 2002, and 58 years ago on this day, as President Reagan said nearly 20 years ago, we mark a day in history when allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim a continent to liberty. As President Reagan said, for 4 long years…

we find ourselves in a long war on terror. There has been much discussion on Capitol Hill this week and around America about blame and about how it is that we ought to inquire and investigate institutional failures. So I rise today, Mr…

I am cursed with a memory full of useless information, some of which were the comments made by Democrats in 1996 when we passed welfare reform. Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund, said the bill was an outrage…

the Internet can be a force for good or a force for evil. At its best the Web is used to disseminate information and provide educational materials to children. Teachers and parents often encourage children to turn to the Internet for…

it has been a hallmark of the Republican majority in Congress to practice fiscal restraint and to stand by a strong national defense. Today here on Capitol Hill we will be about the business of responding to the President's supplemental…

I pray for the peace of Jerusalem almost every day. As I listen to the gentleman from California speak about the tragic loss of life on both sides of this conflict, I know of his sincerity and greatly appreciate it. But I rise today as an…

I thank the gentleman with a gentle heart from Colorado for yielding and giving me the honor of coming alongside and joining him in his effort to bring a forgotten part of the world before the American people. Without flattering the…

we heard about the Bush recession on this floor months ago, even though the recession in which we found ourselves had begun a matter of weeks after George Bush became President of the United States. So I am waiting, Mr. Speaker, to begin…

I come today to this Chamber having had an extraordinary morning in east central Indiana. At my side was the conference chairman for the Republican majority of the Congress, J.C. Watts, who is, among other accolades including Orange Bowl…

Mr. Speaker, we all realized, many on both sides of the aisle last year, that it was simply morally wrong to tax married couples more than unmarried couples living together in America. Mr. Speaker, we realized it was morally wrong to tax…

I am a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order. My faith trumps my philosophy, and my philosophy trumps my partisanship, and it is from my faith and from my philosophy, as it is I believe for many Christian Americans…

As a father of three small children, I do rise to denounce this deplorable decision where the court struck down a 1996 Federal ban on computer-generated child pornography. The court actually wrote that the law was not sufficiently precise…

in the 1830s, the French observer Alexis de Tocqueville took a road trip through America. We were a very young Nation, less than 60 years old, progressing, as Thomas Jefferson said, ``beyond the reach of the mortal eye.'' De Tocqueville…

it is written that ``I set before you blessings and curses, life and death. Now choose life that you and your children might live.'' Today, 40 Nobel laureates will come to Capitol Hill to express their support for human cloning for…

It was a sunny day on Monday on the south lawn of the White House where I had the privilege of gathering with several thousand Americans to hear the President speak words to a troubled world. He said, "There can be no peace in a world…

I do rise as a member of the Committee on the Judiciary in strong support of the rule and of the underlying legislation, the Class Action Fairness Act of 2002. I believe as a new Member of this institution that whatever laws that we pass…

it is said that the Almighty sets before us blessings and curses, life and death, and that we are to choose life so that we and our children might live. This week on this floor, in this Chamber, in this country, our Congress will have the…

it is written that, ``If you owe debts, pay debts; if honor, then honor; if respect, then respect.'' I can think of no more fitting time to apply this verse than today, 1 day after we as Americans watched the flag-draped caskets of seven…

I rise today in deep humility to join in the shock and the grief of the citizens of Shelby County, Indiana, to pay tribute to the passing of a leader, a wife, a mother, and a distinguished local citizen, Cathy Laird, who passed away at the…

I am a strong advocate of free trade. As an original co-sponsor of Presidential Trade Promotion Authority, I fought on the floor of this very Chamber to give this President the ability to negotiate down trade barriers because I simply…

we are told that ``there is a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven.'' At this time in our Nation's history, it is undeniable that citizens have found a newfound interest in spiritual things. And until 2 days…

It is February 12, 2002, and on this calendar date 193 years ago today, just scarcely two lifetimes ago, came into the world the 16th President of the United States of America, the father of the Republican Party, the leader who ended…

my wife, Karen, and I just returned from celebrating, along with 3,800 other citizens of both political parties, the 50th National Prayer Breakfast here in Washington, D.C. It was truly an inspiring morning. I offer congratulations to the…

mark your calendar. It is official. I have, in fact, as of this date and this hour heard everything: President Ronald Wilson Reagan on the occasion of his 91st birthday used as an example in the House of Representatives as a tax increaser…

a woman 4 months pregnant flees to her mother's village to avoid a forced abortion in China. Her brother, two sisters and three other relatives are arrested as bargaining chips to enforce China's brutal one-child-per-family policy. Three…