Friday, June 29, 2007
The Liberty Papers blog discusses Fairness Doctrine
The Liberty Papers blog says Congressman Pence’s Broadcaster Freedom Act is a victory for the First Amendment. Read it here.
Power Line blog says Democrats trying to bring down talk radio
Power Line blog says Congressman Pence is taking on the Fairness Doctrine with his Broadcaster Freedom Act. Check it out here.
Gary Bauer says conservative talk radio is under siege from the left
Gary Bauer writes in Human Events that Congressman Pence’s Broadcaster Freedom Act will prevent the left from regulating talk radio. Check it out here.
TIME says the GOP is rallying against the Fairness Doctrine
Gilbert Cruz of TIME writes that Congressman Pence is leading the fight against The Fairness Doctrine. Read it here.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Fox News story on Fairness Doctrine
Fox News discusses the Fairness Doctrine and Congressman Pence’s Broadcasters Freedom Act to stop the FCC from regulating talk radio. Read the story here.
Newt Gingrich on the Fairness Doctrine
Newt Gingrich mentioned Congressman Pence’s efforts on Fairness Doctrine on Hannity and Colmes last night. Read it here.
The Fairness Doctrine on Special Report
Congressman Pence was mentioned on Fox News’ Special Report about his new legislation to counter the Fairness Doctrine. Read it here.
Investors Business Daily says that liberal Democrats want to regulate speech by using the power of government
Investors Business Daily says Congressman Pence is leading the fight to reject the Fairness Doctrine. Check it out here.
WISH-TV reports on Congressman Pence’s opposition to the Fairness Doctrine
Jim Shella of WISH-TV reports that Congressman Pence is leading a group of conservatives who oppose the Fairness Doctrine. Read the story here.
Crosswalk.com says Democrats in Congress seek to regulate talk radio by brining back the Fairness Doctrine
Whitney Stewart and Fred Lucas of Crosswalk.com write that Congressman Pence’s Broadcasters Freedom Act will counter moves to bring back the Fairness Doctrine. Check it out here.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Rush Limbaugh talks about Congressman Pence's efforts on the Fairness Doctrine
Click here for a transcript of the show today.
Captain’s Quarters blog talks about the Fairness Doctrine
Ed Morrissey of Captain’s Quarters blog writes about Congressman Pence’s opposition to the Fairness Doctrine. Check it out here.
The Washington Examiner on the Fairness Doctrine
The Washington Examiner is critical of members of Congress who wish to revive the Fairness Doctrine. Read the story here.
NewsBusters discusses the debate over the Fairness Doctrine
NewsBusters’ blogger Noel Sheppard praises Congressman Pence’s efforts to combat the Fairness Doctrine by introducing the Broadcaster Freedom Act. Read it here.
AOL blogs about the Fairness Doctrine
AOL Blogger Matt Margolis blogs about Congressman Pence’s introduction of the Broadcaster Freedom Act. Read it here.
Michelle Malkin blogs on Congressman Pence's Broadcasters Freedom Act
Michelle Malkin of MichelleMalkin.com wrote a blog piece on The Fairness Doctrine and praises Congressman Pence’s efforts on the Broadcaster Freedom Act. Read it here.
Robert Bluey blogs on The Fairness Doctrine
Robert Bluey of Blueyblog.com wrote a blog piece on the Fairness Doctrine and commends Congressman Pence for introducing the Broadcasters Freedom Act. Check it here. His story is also linked on Redstate. Click here.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
The Hill on the Fairness Doctrine
The Hill has a front page story on Democrat efforts to bring back the Fairness Doctrine and House Republican efforts, led by Congressman Pence, to stop them.
Excerpts:
“It’s time to reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine,” said Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). “I have this old-fashioned attitude that when Americans hear both sides of the story, they’re in a better position to make a decision.”
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To halt the growing momentum in Congress to balance conservative radio programming, House lawmakers are preparing to introduce legislation this week that would codify the FCC’s 1985 decision to abandon the Fairness Doctrine.
Rep. Mike Pence (R), who worked as a syndicated talk radio host in Indiana before winning election to the House, is the main sponsor of the legislation. He is working with Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), a radio station owner, on the bill.
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Pence hopes to rally colleagues around the issue with a speech that he plans to deliver on the House floor today.
“Since the demise of the Fairness Doctrine, talk radio has emerged as a dynamic forum for public debate and an asset to the nation,” Pence wrote in his prepared remarks. “Unfortunately, in the name of fairness, there has been much talk in recent days about the need to level the playing field of radio broadcasting by restoring the Fairness Doctrine.
“Bringing back the Fairness Doctrine would amount to government control over political views expressed on the public airwaves,” he wrote.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
World Tribune on Pence's efforts to restrict foreign aid for Palestinian Authority
Click here to read the story.
Friday, June 22, 2007
Citizen Link says the U.S. House killed a pro-life policy in a vote yesterday
Citizen Link cites Congressman Pence’s opposition to taxpayer money funding abortions in foreign countries. Read the article here.
AP says the United States House of Representatives has voted to reverse previous legislation that bans aid to foreign countries to perform abortion
Ann Flaherty of AP quotes Congressman Pence’s strong opposition to allowing foreign aid to be used to perform abortions. Read the story here.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
AP: Pence to try and restrict taxpayer dollars from being given to the Palestinian Authority
Ann Flaherty from the Associated Press writes that Congressman Pence is drafting legislation that would restrict money from being given to the Palestinian Authority. A few excerpts:
Pence, R-Ind., said he is drafting legislation that would restrict money from being given to the Palestinians so long as Hamas has control of Gaza. Pence wants to offer the measure as an amendment to a $34.2 billion bill that funds the State Department and foreign assistance programs.
Pence said his concern is that Bush's decision to resume aid will "open the flood gates of support for authorities within the Fatah government that could ultimately be used against Israel," he said in an interview Wednesday.
"Right now we're at a time when Hamas is sitting behind the desk of government buildings in Gaza City wearing ski masks and holding AK-47s," he added. "It's hard for me to see where we can provide any funds directly or indirectly to supplement or support what is an emerging terrorist Palestinian state."
AP: Pence opposes effort to provide contraceptive grants to groups overseas that also provide abortions
Ann Flaherty of AP writes that Congressman Pence is opposed to U.S. funding of abortions in groups overseas. Check it out here.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
The Oakland Tribune urges Congress to pass the Free Flow of Information Act of 2007
The Oakland Tribune quotes Congressman Pence concerning Congress passing a federal shield law for journalists. Check it our here.
Ken Blackwell writes in Townhall.com that American’s are tired of excessive spending and are fed up with earmarks
Former Governor Ken Blackwell mentions Congressman Pence’s leading efforts to end the process of earmarking. Read the article here.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
National Journal’s Beltway Blogroll says voters in the state of Washington believe bloggers should be protected by a federal shield law.
Congressman Pence is quoted in Beltway Blogroll about the need for a federal shield law. Read it here.
Pence: “It's imperative the Republican Party be for something."
This story today quotes Congressman Pence and gives the latest outlook for the immigration bill.
CNN features report on earmarks
Congressman Pence was among the first to make his earmark requests public on his website. This CNN story talks about which lawmakers made their requests public and which did not.
Friday, June 15, 2007
Media Shield Hearing
Below are a few links to stories about yesterday’s hearing conducted by the House Judiciary Committee on Congressman Pence's federal media shield bill:
AP Story
WTHR (Indianapolis)
San Francisco Chronicle
CBS News Blog
And here are excerpts from today’s Columbus Republic :
By Kirk Johannesen
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., urged members of House Judiciary Committee on Thursday to support a federal media shield law to protect the public’s right to know.
Pence and U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., are the lead sponsors of House Resolution 2102, Free Flow of Information Act of 2007.
The bill was written in the 109th Congress and reintroduced in the 110th. Its purpose is to maintain a free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news media.
The bill awaits a vote in the committee to see if it is passed to the House floor for a vote.
Pence hopes the bill will pass in the House before the August recess.
Whistle-blower need
Pence said he and Boucher were encouraged by the reception the bill received from committee members during the three-hour hearing.
“We both left feeling like they had moved the legislation forward. We did not hear from any members of Congress, that participated, any unilateral opposition,” Pence said.
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Pence told the committee that if W. Mark Felt had not received assurances of confidentiality, he would not have revealed government abuses that became known as the Watergate scandal.
Pence told the committee that 32 states and District of Columbia have statutes that protect reporters from testifying or revealing their information in court. There is no federal law guaranteeing such protections.
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Former New York Times columnist William Safire testified at the hearing. Pence said he described an atmosphere of “coercive chilling.”
Safire said colleagues who have received subpoenas or have faced jail time for not revealing sources are now lessinclined to assure confidentiality to sources in exchange for information.
Pence noted that in July 2005, New York Times reporter Judith Miller was jailed for contempt of court for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury that was investigating a leak naming Valerie Plame as a CIA agent. Miller served 85 days in jail.
He also mentioned San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, who faced jail time for not revealing to a federal grand jury their sources in reporting on steroid use in professional sports.
Pence said a free and independent press is the only check on government power in real time.
“Without the free flow of information from sources to reporters, the public is illequipped to make informed decisions,” Pence said.
WTHR (Indianapolis) says Hoosier lawmakers take a step forward to protect journalists
WTHR's Tom Walker reports on yesterday’s media shield hearing. Check it out here.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports on President Bush’s trip to the Hill yesterday
The Enquirer quotes Congressman Pence concerning the Senate immigration reform bill. Read it here.
Pence asks government watchdog to look into possible fraud involving North Korea
Reuters makes note in this story that Congressman Pence and other members of Congress are asking the Government Accounting Office to look into fraud involving North Korea and the U.S. government.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
AP reports on President Bush’s meeting with Senators on immigration
AP’s Julie Hirschfeld Davis quotes Congressman Pence’s reaction to the President’s visit to Capitol Hill concerning immigration here.
Monday, June 11, 2007
AP gives lay of the land on immigration
AP’s Julie Hirschfeld Davis quotes Congressman Pence about President Bush’s support of the Senate immigration bill. Read it here.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Pence immigration op-ed
The Washington Times ran an op-ed by Congressman Pence on immigration today. In the op-ed, Congressman Pence talks about why the Senate immigration bill failed and what he thinks needs to be done on the issue now.
The entire op-ed is below:
Why I was opposed
By Mike Pence
Published June 10, 2007
Last year, President Bush set out his views on immigration reform to the American people, saying there must be "a rational middle ground between granting an automatic path to citizenship for every illegal immigrant, and a program of mass deportation."
I agree with the president that a rational middle ground can be found between automatic citizenship and mass deportation, but the amnesty bill that was defeated in the Senate was not the middle ground.
I opposed the Senate immigration bill because of its core fallacy that millions of illegal immigrants could get right with the law without having to leave the country. For most Americans, and me, that is amnesty and I cannot support it.
Different from last year's Senate compromise, this Senate bill included provisions that appeared to require illegal immigrants to leave the country, but that simply was not the case. Even several major news organizations characterized this "touchback" provision as mandatory.
But the Senate bill only included a requirement that Z Visa holders return to the U.S. Consulate in their country of origin if they wanted to apply for a green card, which was strictly optional. Under the Senate bill, illegals could obtain a Z Visa, which was renewable indefinitely, simply by paying a fine and passing a background check. Z Visa holders never were required to leave the country to get right with the law.
The purpose of requiring illegal immigrants to leave the country to get right with the law is not simply to do a quick "touchback." That is a gimmick. The purpose of leaving the country to get right with the law is to require people to apply for the legal right to enter the United States in the same way all other visa applicants apply to come into the United States.
If a person applies from outside of the country and is denied, then the person does not need to be deported because he or she is already gone. If the person, however, applies from outside the country and is accepted, which would mean the person passed a background check and a health screening and has a job, that person has corrected his or her original illegal act and has been granted legal entry to America without amnesty.
While I strongly opposed the Senate immigration bill, I am not against every version of immigration reform. Last year, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and I proposed a no-amnesty solution to the illegal immigration crisis, and I believe it still holds promise if Congress makes another attempt at immigration reform this year.
Any future effort at immigration reform must reflect the following four-step process:
Securing our border is the first step. As President Reagan said, "A nation without borders is not a nation." Therefore, we must make America a nation with borders. We must man the door. No temporary worker program should begin until border security measures are completed. The border must continue to be certified as secure for a temporary worker program to continue.
The second step is to decide, once and for all, to deny amnesty to people whose first act in the United States was a violation of the law by requiring all illegal immigrants to leave the country to get right with the law.
The third step is to put in place a temporary worker program, without amnesty, that will establish "Ellis Island Centers" outside the country where private sector employment firms can match employers with willing temporary workers who pass a background check and learn English.
The final step is tough employer sanctions and an employment verification system that ensures a full partnership between American business and the U.S. government in enforcing our immigration laws.
I opposed the Senate immigration bill because I believe we can solve the crisis of illegal immigration without amnesty or a massive new federal bureaucracy.
Now that the Senate has defeated its flawed version of immigration reform, I hope the House will take a fresh look at the issue. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced her desire to see a bipartisan immigration reform bill. If she is looking for consensus, I believe this four-part plan is a template for reform that those opposing amnesty can embrace. I believe this proposal offers a solution that those calling for humane treatment of the illegal aliens in our midst can embrace. And I believe this solution is one the American people can embrace. It is the real rational middle ground.
Mike Pence, an Indiana Republican, is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Stem cell coverage
The U.S. House voted today on whether taxpayers should be forced to pay for destructive embryonic stem cell research. Check out the ocverage of the debate below:
Indianapolis' WTHR Ch. 13
South Bend's WNDU
Washington Post
San Francisco Chronicle
LifeNews.com
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Schwarzenegger backs shield law
In a letter to Congressman Pence, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he supports the Free Flow of Information Act. Read it here.
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
The Waco Tribune-Herald says Congress needs to pass Free Flow of Information Act
The Waco Tribune-Herald editorializes on the need to pass the Free Flow of Information Act and quotes Congressman Pence. Check it out here.
Monday, June 04, 2007
The Palladium-Item urges Congress to pass an immigration reform bill
The Palladium-Item says that Congress needs to pass an immigration reform bill and urges Congressman Pence to work to get the bill passed. Read it here.
The San Antonio Express-News on immigration bill
The San Antonio Express-News mentions Senator Hutchison and Congressman Pence’s plan on immigration. Read the article here.
Manhattan Institute’s Tamar Jacoby on immigration
The North County Times quotes Tamar Jacoby of the Manhattan Institute on Congressman Pence’s role in the immigration debate here.
The Herald Bulletin writes about Indiana National Guard Lt. Col. Jay Jerrils returning home from Iraq for his daughters graduation
Justin Schneider of The Herald Bulletin reports that Congressman Pence spoke during a ceremony in honor of Lt. Col Jerrils’ return home from Iraq to see his daughter gradate from Liberty Christian School. Read it here.
The Kansas City Star discusses media freedom in Kenya
The Kansas City Star writes about a bill to protect media in Kenya and mentions Congressman Pence’s bipartisan effort to protect journalist here in the United States. Read it here.
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