Pence, who represents the Anderson area, and other House Republicans have been pushing on Capitol Hill for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to call Congress into special session to deal with the energy crisis.

Pence has been at the forefront of the Republican protest, spending much of the past two weeks since the adjournment of Congress in Washington. On the floor of the House, on television, on radio, on the Internet and in print, Pence and his brethren have been applying serious pressure on Pelosi...

While speculators, oil companies and politicians jockey for position in the energy debate, here in the Heartland, folks are demanding immediate action. And that’s precisely what Pence, as our representative, should be generating.