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Spitz-take.
Is Eliot Spitzer clueless or dishonest? It has to be one or the other in this clip from earlier today on CNN. I’m leaning towards dishonest. He jumps all over Rep. Mike Pence for not including Social Security reform and balancing the budget in the FY2011 budget proposal, which Democrats didn’t bother to pass when […]
Representative Mike Pence spoke with Tea Party members in a rally in Washington promising to fight for the budget cuts they want to see from the GOP.
Representative Mike Pence spoke with Tea Party members in a rally in Washington promising to fight for the budget cuts they want to see from the GOP.
Representative Mike Pence spoke with Tea Party members in a rally in Washington promising to fight for the budget cuts they want to see from the GOP.
Indiana Republican Rep. Mike Pence takes to the National Review to declare war on women again.
On Feb. 18, 2011, with bipartisan support, the House of Representatives passed the Pence Amendment, which would end taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood. In response, Planned Parenthood used its vast resources to launch slick Madison Avenue television ads portraying the group — the nation’s largest abortion provider — as an altruistic organization that provides health-care services to the poor and has only an incidental interest in abortion.Despite efforts to suggest otherwise, the Pence Amendment does not reduce funding for cancer screenings or eliminate one dime of funding for other important health services to women; the money that does not go to Planned Parenthood as a result of the Pence Amendment will go to other organizations that provide these services. If the Pence Amendment becomes law, thousands of women’s health centers, clinics, and hospitals will still provide assistance to low-income families and women. The Pence Amendment would simply deny any and all federal funding to Planned Parenthood.
Two problems with that. One, Pence believes 100% in the fungiablity of federal dollars to Planned Parenthood, but of course doesn’t mean that women, particularly poor women, will have access if Planned Parenthood shuts down. If Planned Parenthood is the only clinic around offering women’s health services in the area, and funding goes away, it’s going to take time to replace the clinic with the “other organizations”. In the meantime, where do women go to get health services?
Second, if you buy the fungiabilty argument, then no government dollars can ever go to any organization, clinic, doctor, or nurse at a clinic that does provide them, but why does the argument stop there? Why not strip federal funding from the local, county, and state government that allows the clinic to exist? Why not strip tax breaks from medical equipment providers, power companies, water and sanitation providers, contractors, and automakers that allow the people at the clinic to function as a business?
Oh, and Pence has no problem with oil companies making tens of billions in profits while getting government subsidies, nor does he have a problem with farm subsidy payments (being from Indiana.) Only when it involves Planned Parenthood does he decide to be a fiscal hawk who wants the federal government to interfere between doctor and patient, if THAT stance makes any sense.
Rep. Mike Pence gave a great House floor speech about the truth behind his amendment to defund Planned Parenthood.
Rep. Mike Pence gave a great House floor speech about the truth behind his amendment to defund Planned Parenthood.
Rep. Mike Pence gave a great House floor speech about the truth behind his amendment to defund Planned Parenthood.
Rep. Mike Pence, during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing regarding the situation in Libya that there is no parsing words, “We’re at war in Libya.”
Rep. Mike Pence is touring the state of Indiana and getting a sense of what the Hoosiers want from their politicians.
I’ll make this bet, Pence will become the next governor of Indiana and I am not the only one.
I am glad that we have a serious and stalwart conservative like Rep. Mike Pence in congress.
On the one-year anniversary of Obamacare, Pence reminds us about the awfulness of this health care law, and that it’s still a government takeover of health care.
For over 40 years, the government’s Title X initiative has supported family planning programs that provide contraceptive, health, and family services to over 5 million low-income women and men each year. Title X “makes no funds available for abortion” but provides grants to a network of organizations that play “a critical role in ensuring access to confidential, voluntary family planning services and information to all who want and need them.” Of the millions of women served by these clinics, 28 percent receive care at Planned Parenthood.
Recognizing the “important work” such clinics like Planned Parenthood perform “in our inner cities,” Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) pushed back against criticism of the House GOP’s plan to gut the program in a recent radio interview, saying he himself has “never advocated reducing funding for Title X”:
“I’ve never advocated reducing funding for Title X,” Pence said during a recent radio interview with the chairman of a county Right to Life organization in his home state.
“Title X clinics do important work in our inner cities,” Pence said. “They provide health services for women and children that might not otherwise have access to them.”
As a prominent and influential House Republican, Pence and his defense of Title X may be able to win over the program’s most voracious opponent: Mike Pence. Not only did he successfully pass an amendment to “eliminate the entire Title X program” in February, he is the chief sponsor of the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act — a bill that would ban those clinics that “do important work” from receiving any federal funds because they may provide abortions.
Readily admitting that the law prohibits federal funds from being used to pay for abortions, Pence insists that “common sense says there’s no question that taxpayer dollars received by Planned Parenthood are used to cover allowed expenses like overhead operational costs, thus freeing up other money for clinics that do provide abortion.” His bill, he says, would “close the loophole that’s forced millions of pro-life Americans to subsidize the nations leading abortion provider, sustaining and underwriting this nefarious trade.”
NARAL Pro-Choice America President Nancy Keenan told ThinkProgress there’s only one way to view Pence’s open hypocrisy: “Clearly, Pence is feeling the political heat for being the head cheerleader for an over-reaching agenda that would take away millions of Americans’ access to contraception, cancer screenings, and health-care services.” But whatever he may say, his actions speak louder than words. (HT: Raw Story)
In an interview this morning, Rep. Mike Pence talked about the continuing resolution.
If it means funding the government one day at a time, then do it until Democrats agree to Republicans’ terms.
Rep. Mike Pence was on Hugh Hewitt’s show and said he expects the GOP Leadership to denounce the claims by the anonymous GOP aide.
Rep. Mike Pence drew a line in the sand when he met with GOP leadership, according to a colleague of Pence.
Go Pence!
