PenceBlog: <b>Pence, 17 House conservatives oppose Shays-Meehan Bill <b> - U.S. Congressman Mike Pence : 6th District Of Indiana

Yesterday Congressman Pence joined 17 other House conservatives and voted against the Shays-Meehan 527 Reform Act.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the New York Times writes in this article that "a Republican opponent of the bill, Representative Mike Pence of Indiana, has compared the exercise to whack-a-mole, a carnival game in which a player hits one mole with a hammer and another pops up."

Tory Newmyer writes "the 527 bill passed despite opposition from some leading House conservatives, including Republican Study Committee Chairman Mike Pence (Ind.), who argued that it curtailed free speech" in this Roll Call article.

According to Joel Havemann's LA Times article, Rep. Pence "has argued that limits on contributions to 527 committees would leave a political vacuum that would be filled by other, unregulated groups."

Robert B. Bluey of Human Events writes that House conservatives came up short of needed votes, by a 218-209 margin, in his online column.

Bluey also writes about Rep. Pence's 527 Fairness Act and pro-freedom amendment in this article.

posted by Pence Press Office # 7:07 AM