Mike Pence
Mike Pence
Michael Richard "Mike" Penceis an American politician and attorney, the Republican Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, in the 2016 election. He has been serving since 2013 as the 50th governor of Indiana. Pence previously represented Indiana's 2nd congressional district and Indiana's 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013 and served as chairman of the House Republican Conference from 2009 to 2011. Pence is a conservative and a supporter of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 June 1959
CityColumbus, IN
CountryUnited States of America
The President reminded us that the war in Iraq is a central battlefield in the war on terror that began the morning of September the 11th.
For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.
I have a sense of this man [Donald Trump]. I have a sense of his heart.
The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.
The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.
The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness.
We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps their lives to take a stand for the values upon which we have really founded this nation.
You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we're looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And it must be opposed.
In my home state of Indiana we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes.
When people take greater ownership of their own health care and are encouraged to do that in a health plan, their health gets better. They pursue more wellness opportunities.
We have no higher stewardship, no higher calling than to come onto this floor and into this chamber and make the tough decisions.
When I was home this weekend, no one I talked to had any interest in talking about who was to blame for Hurricane Katrina. But almost everyone wanted to talk about how we're going to pay for it.