169 Facts About Vice President Mike Pence

Vice President Mike Pence was born and raised in Columbus, Indiana, and is the younger brother of US Representative Greg Vice President Mike Pence.

Vice President Mike Pence graduated from Hanover College and earned a law degree from the Indiana University Robert H McKinney School of Law before entering private practice.

Vice President Mike Pence was elected to the US House of Representatives in 2000 and represented the of Indiana from 2001 to 2003 and the of Indiana from 2003 to 2013.

Vice President Mike Pence chaired the Republican Study Committee from 2005 to 2007 and served as the chairman of the House Republican Conference from 2009 to 2011, the third-highest position in the House Republican leadership.

Vice President Mike Pence successfully sought the Republican nomination for the 2012 Indiana gubernatorial election when term-limited Mitch Daniels retired.

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Vice President Mike Pence defeated former Indiana House speaker John R Gregg in the closest gubernatorial election in 50 years.

Vice President Mike Pence signed bills intended to restrict abortions, including one that prohibited abortions if the reason for the procedure was the fetus's race, gender, or disability.

Vice President Mike Pence was inaugurated as vice president of the United States on January 20,2017.

In February 2020, Vice President Mike Pence was appointed chairman of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, which was established in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

Vice President Mike Pence has distanced himself from Trump by endorsing candidates in several Republican primary elections in opposition to the candidate endorsed by Trump.

Michael Richard Vice President Mike Pence was born on June 7,1959, in Columbus, Indiana, one of six children of Ann Jane "Nancy" Cawley and Edward Joseph Vice President Mike Pence Jr.

Vice President Mike Pence's father served in the US Army during the Korean War and received the Bronze Star in 1953, which Pence displays in his office along with its commendation letter and a reception photograph.

Vice President Mike Pence's father was of German and Irish descent and his mother is of Irish ancestry.

Vice President Mike Pence earned a Bachelor of Arts in history from Hanover College in 1981, and a Juris Doctor from the Robert H McKinney School of Law at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis in Indianapolis in 1986.

Vice President Mike Pence volunteered for the Bartholomew County Democratic Party in 1976 and voted for Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential election, and has said he was originally inspired to get involved in politics by people such as John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

In 1988, Vice President Mike Pence ran for Congress against Democratic incumbent Philip Sharp, but lost.

Vice President Mike Pence ran against Sharp again in 1990, quitting his job in order to work full-time in the campaign, but was unsuccessful.

In 1991, Vice President Mike Pence wrote an essay, "Confessions of a Negative Campaigner", published in the Indiana Policy Review, in which he apologized for running negative ads against Sharp.

Vice President Mike Pence vowed to refrain from using insulting speech or running ads that belittle his adversaries.

In 1992, Pence began hosting a daily talk show on WRCR, The Mike Pence Show, in addition to a Saturday show on WNDE in Indianapolis.

Vice President Mike Pence called himself "Rush Limbaugh on decaf" since he considered himself politically conservative while not as bombastic as Limbaugh.

Vice President Mike Pence ended his radio and television shows in 1999 to focus on his 2000 campaign for Congress, which he eventually won.

Vice President Mike Pence began to climb the party leadership structure and from 2005 to 2007 was chairman of the Republican Study Committee, a group of conservative House Republicans.

In November 2006, Vice President Mike Pence announced his candidacy for leader of the Republican Party in the United States House of Representatives.

Vice President Mike Pence's release announcing his run for minority leader focused on a "return to the values" of the Newt Gingrich-headed 1994 Republican Revolution.

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In January 2009, Vice President Mike Pence was elected as the Republican Conference chairman, the third-highest-ranking Republican leadership position at the time behind Minority Leader John Boehner and Republican Whip Eric Cantor.

Vice President Mike Pence was the first representative from Indiana to hold a House leadership position since 1981.

In May 2011, Vice President Mike Pence announced that he would be seeking the Republican nomination for governor of Indiana in 2012.

Vice President Mike Pence ran on a platform that touted the successes of his predecessor and promised to continue educational reform and business deregulation of Daniels.

Vice President Mike Pence was sworn in as the 50th governor of Indiana on January 14,2013.

Vice President Mike Pence was unsuccessful in his efforts to persuade the companies to stay in the state, although the companies agreed to reimburse local and state governments for certain tax incentives they had received.

The Indiana Economic Development Corporation led by Vice President Mike Pence had approved $24million in incentives to ten companies who sent jobs abroad.

In 2013, Vice President Mike Pence signed a law blocking local governments in Indiana from requiring businesses to offer higher wages or benefits beyond those required by federal law.

In 2015, Vice President Mike Pence signed the repeal an Indiana law that required construction companies working on publicly funded projects to pay a prevailing wage.

In 2013, Vice President Mike Pence announced the formation of the Indiana Biosciences Research Institute, a life sciences research facility supported with $25million in startup funds from the state.

Vice President Mike Pence made tax reform, namely a ten percent income-tax rate cut, a priority for 2013.

The bill, which was passed by a huge majority of legislators and subsequently vetoed by Vice President Mike Pence, allowed money to be kept and not returned to the taxpayers as would have otherwise been necessary.

Vice President Mike Pence initially proposed the initiative in his State of the State address in January 2015.

In October 2015, Vice President Mike Pence "announced plans to pay off a $250million federal loan" to cover unemployment insurance payments which had spiked during the recession.

In March 2016, Vice President Mike Pence signed legislation to fund a $230million two-year road-funding package.

In 2014, a little over one year after taking office, Vice President Mike Pence helped establish a $10-million state preschool pilot program in Indiana and testified personally before the state Senate Education Committee in favor of the program to convince fellow Republicans to approve the plan.

In 2015, Vice President Mike Pence secured significant increases in charter-school funding from the legislation, although he did not get everything he had proposed.

Vice President Mike Pence opposed the Common Core State Standards Initiative, calling for the repeal of the standards in his 2014 State of the State address.

In one of his first acts as governor, Vice President Mike Pence removed control of the Educational Employment Relations Board, which was in charge of handling conflicts between unions and school boards, from Glenda Ritz, a Democrat who was the Indiana superintendent of public instruction.

Vice President Mike Pence created a new "Center for Education and Career Innovation" to coordinate efforts between schools and the private sector; Ritz opposed the center, viewing it as a "power grab" and encroachment on her own duties.

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In May 2015, Vice President Mike Pence signed a bill stripping Ritz of much of her authority over standardized testing and other education issues, and reconstituting the State Board of Education dominated by Vice President Mike Pence appointees.

In 2016, Vice President Mike Pence said that even if legal challenges failed, Indiana would continue to defy the rule and would not come up with its own plan to reduce emissions.

In 2014, over the opposition of Indiana school organizations, Vice President Mike Pence signed a bill which allows firearms to be kept in vehicles on school property.

In 2015, following a shooting in Chattanooga, Vice President Mike Pence recruited the National Rifle Association to train the Indiana National Guard on concealed carry.

In May 2015, Vice President Mike Pence signed into law Senate Bill 98, which limited lawsuits against gun and ammunition manufacturers and sellers and retroactively terminated the City of Gary's still-pending 1999 lawsuit against gun manufacturers and retailers that allegedly made illegal sales of handguns.

In 2016, Vice President Mike Pence signed Senate Bill 109 into law, legalizing the captive hunting of farm-raised deer in Indiana.

Vice President Mike Pence had long been a vocal opponent of needle exchange programs, which allow drug users to trade in used syringes for sterile ones in order to stop the spread of diseases, despite solid scientific evidence that such programs prevent the spread of AIDS, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C, and do not increase drug abuse.

In March 2015, well after the outbreak began, Vice President Mike Pence finally allowed at least five counties to open needle exchanges, but did not move to lift the state ban on funding for needle exchanges.

Critics say Vice President Mike Pence's compromise had been ineffective because counties had no way to pay for needle exchanges themselves.

Anesthesiologist Jerome Adams, then the Vice President Mike Pence-appointed Indiana state health commissioner and later surgeon general of the United States during the Trump administration, defended Vice President Mike Pence, arguing that publicly funded needle exchange programs are controversial in many conservative communities.

Vice President Mike Pence had told lawmakers he would veto any bill they might pass that provided for such exchanges.

On March 26,2015, Vice President Mike Pence signed Indiana Senate Bill 101, known as the Indiana "religious objections" bill, into law.

Vice President Mike Pence defended the law, saying it was not about discrimination.

Vice President Mike Pence received heavy criticism from liberals at the time of signing the religious freedom law, who labeled him as anti-gay.

In March 2016, as Indiana governor, Pence signed into law H B 1337, a bill that both banned certain abortion procedures and placed new restrictions on abortion providers.

In June 2013, Vice President Mike Pence was criticized for deleting comments of others posted on his official government Facebook page; he apologized.

On January 26,2015, it was widely reported that Pence had planned to launch a state-run, taxpayer-funded news service for Indiana.

In December 2015, Vice President Mike Pence said that "calls to ban Muslims from entering the US are offensive and unconstitutional".

Vice President Mike Pence "repeatedly stonewalled public records requests as governor, often withholding documents or delaying their release if not denying them outright".

In March 2017, after Pence had become vice president, the State of Indiana released 29 emails to media outlets that had made public records requests, but withheld an undisclosed number of other emails, saying they were deliberative or advisory and thus exempt from public disclosure.

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Vice President Mike Pence ran for a second term as governor and was unopposed in the Republican primary on May 3,2016.

Vice President Mike Pence was to face Democrat John R Gregg in a rematch of the 2012 race.

However, Pence filed paperwork ending his campaign on July 15,2016, as Trump announced his selection of Pence as his vice presidential running mate.

Vice President Mike Pence had stronger connections at the time to the politically influential big donors, the Kochs, than Trump did.

Immediately after the announcement, Vice President Mike Pence said he was "very supportive of Donald Trump's call to temporarily suspend immigration from countries where terrorist influence and impact represents a threat to the United States".

Vice President Mike Pence said he was "absolutely" in sync with Trump's Mexican wall proposal, saying Mexico was "absolutely" going to pay for it.

That day, Vice President Mike Pence said to reporters, "I do not condone his remarks and cannot defend them, " but made clear that he was standing by Trump.

On October 10,2016, Vice President Mike Pence appeared on CNN and said, in response to rumors that he was leaving the ticket, that it was "absolutely false to suggest that at any point in time we considered dropping off this ticket" and that it is the "greatest honor of my life" to be nominated as Trump's running mate.

On October 27,2016, a chartered Boeing 737 carrying Vice President Mike Pence skidded off a runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York City and was slowed by an engineered materials arrestor system; no injuries were reported.

On November 8,2016, Pence was elected vice president of the United States as Trump's running mate.

On January 20,2017, at noon, Pence became the 48th vice president of the United States, sworn into the office by justice Clarence Thomas, using Ronald Reagan's Bible, opened to 2 Chronicles 7:14, "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land, " which is the same verse Reagan used for his swearing-ins as governor and president.

Vice President Mike Pence used his personal Bible which he opens every morning.

Vice President Mike Pence administered the oath of office to the White House senior staff on January 22,2017.

On February 5,2017, Vice President Mike Pence warned Iran "not to test the resolve" of the new Trump administration following their ballistic missile tests.

Vice President Mike Pence cast the deciding vote to break a fifty-fifty tie to confirm Betsy DeVos as the secretary of education.

In 2018, Pence broke a tie to confirm Jonathan A Kobes for the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

In total, Vice President Mike Pence had cast 13 tie-breaking votes, seventh-most in history and more than his previous four predecessors cast combined.

Vice President Mike Pence ended his trip with stops in Sydney, Australia, and Oahu, Hawaii and American Samoa.

On May 21,2017, Vice President Mike Pence delivered the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame.

Traditionally, the president delivers the address at Notre Dame in his inaugural year, but in 2017 Pence was invited instead when Trump decided to speak at Liberty University.

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On October 8,2017, Vice President Mike Pence walked out of a game between the NFL's Indianapolis Colts and San Francisco 49ers at Trump's request after members of the 49ers knelt during the national anthem.

Reid expressed doubt over the regularity Pence is in terms of attending Colts matches, and referenced a photograph of the vice president and his wife in Colts uniform that had been tweeted before the match, although the official photograph proved otherwise.

Vice President Mike Pence's schedule included four hours spent in transit in one day, and two flights on Air Force Two before the end of the next day.

In May 2017, Vice President Mike Pence filed Federal Election Commission paperwork to form Great America Committee, a political action committee that would be headed by his former campaign staffers Nick Ayers and Marty Obst.

Vice President Mike Pence was a key player in the Trump-Ukraine scandal and the Trump impeachment inquiry.

Vice President Mike Pence met with Zelensky in Poland on September 1,2019, during an unexpected delay in US military aid to Ukraine.

Vice President Mike Pence defended Trump's decision in January 2020 to assassinate the Iranian major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qasem Soleimani, promoting conspiracy theories that supposedly linked the al-Qaeda attacks on the United States to Iran.

On February 26,2020, President Trump named Pence as the leader of the White House Coronavirus Task Force to combat the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US Various public health officials and members of Congress had suggested the selection of a "Coronavirus Czar", though Trump said that would not be the title's name.

Vice President Mike Pence defended his action, saying he needed to look staff "in the eye".

Later, Vice President Mike Pence acknowledged he should have worn a mask during the hospital visit, and did so two days later when visiting a ventilator production facility.

In late June 2020, as coronavirus cases were spiking, Vice President Mike Pence gave an optimistic press briefing where he made several misleading and false claims about the state of the coronavirus pandemic.

Vice President Mike Pence misleadingly argued that surges in cases were the result of increased testing, telling reporters that increases in new cases were "a reflection of a great success in expanding testing across the country".

Vice President Mike Pence falsely claimed that coronavirus fatalities were declining all across the country, that the curve had been flattened, and that all 50 states were opening up.

Vice President Mike Pence declined to endorse Pence should his running mate seek in 2024 to succeed him, but said he would give it "very strong consideration".

In remarks about law enforcement during the 2020 Republican convention, Vice President Mike Pence said a federal security officer, Dave Underwood, "was shot and killed during the riots in Oakland", implying he was killed by rioters, when instead a man linked to the far-right Boogaloo movement had exploited the unrest as a cover for murder.

On October 7,2020, Vice President Mike Pence participated in a debate with Kamala Harris that was held by USA Today in Salt Lake City, Utah, and moderated by Susan Page, the Washington bureau chief of the newspaper.

The United States Department of Justice represented Pence in this case, and argued for its dismissal, stating that the lawsuit was a "walking legal contradiction" because it sought to grant power to the vice president, while suing the vice president.

Vice President Mike Pence was not evacuated from the Senate chambers until 14 minutes after the initial breach of the Capitol was reported.

In spite of the threats against Pence, Trump never reached out to Pence or inquired about his safety during the attack on the Capitol, according to sources close to the vice president.

In February 2021, it was announced that Vice President Mike Pence would join the Heritage Foundation as a distinguished visiting fellow.

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Vice President Mike Pence joined the Young America's Foundation conservative youth organization, with plans to launch a new podcast with the group in the coming months.

In March 2021, Vice President Mike Pence published an op-ed on a Heritage Foundation website in which he noted "significant voting irregularities and numerous instances of officials setting aside state election law" during the 2020 election.

Vice President Mike Pence narrated a four-part television series on the career of right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh titled Age of Rush, which debuted on Fox Nation in March 2021.

Vice President Mike Pence had previously cited Limbaugh as an inspiration for his career in talk radio and then in politics.

In May 2022, The New York Times reported that Pence was considering a presidential run regardless of whether Trump decided to run for a second term.

Since leaving the vice presidency, Pence has distanced himself from Trump's attempts to cast doubt on the 2020 presidential election and made high-profile speeches in early nominating states.

Vice President Mike Pence has separated himself from Trump by endorsing candidates in several Republican primary elections in opposition to the candidate endorsed by Trump.

Vice President Mike Pence appeared in the July 2022 documentary Unprecedented.

In October 2022, Vice President Mike Pence condemned "unprincipled populism" and "Putin apologists" in the Republican Party.

In 2016, Vice President Mike Pence was described as being staunchly conservative on fiscal and social issues, with his political views strongly shaped by his Christian faith and by the conservative political theorist Russell Kirk.

Vice President Mike Pence is an opponent of abortion, and his unwavering support of abortion restrictions has gained him the support of grassroots conservative activists.

Vice President Mike Pence began seeking to defund Planned Parenthood in 2007 and in three congressional sessions, he introduced legislation to block organizations that provide abortion services from receiving any Title X funding, even for services not related to reproductive health or family planning.

Vice President Mike Pence called Powell's comments a "sad day" and expressed his support for abstinence education.

Vice President Mike Pence has been a staunch opponent of efforts to expand LGBT civil rights, during both his governorship and his tenure as a US representative.

Vice President Mike Pence opposed the Troubled Asset Relief Program of 2008.

In 2007, Vice President Mike Pence voted against raising the federal minimum wage to $7.

Vice President Mike Pence voted against the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Vice President Mike Pence had publicly opposed the bill denouncing it as a failure, and called for a federal spending freeze.

Nevertheless, several months after voting against the bill, Vice President Mike Pence privately sought $6million in stimulus funds for projects in his district, and in 2010, hosted a job fair for stimulus-backed employers.

Vice President Mike Pence voted against the act that created Medicare PartD and against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

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In June 2012, after the US Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act in NFIB v Sebelius, Pence likened the ruling to the September 11 attacks in a closed-door meeting of the House Republican Conference.

Vice President Mike Pence wrote an article that appeared on his 2000 congressional campaign website arguing against the tobacco settlement and tobacco regulation, saying they would create "new government bureaucracies" and encroach on private lives.

In 2009, Vice President Mike Pence voted against the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which allows the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco products.

Vice President Mike Pence was slow to support a needle exchange program in Indiana to combat a major HIV outbreak related to needle-sharing among opioid drug users.

In June 2006, Vice President Mike Pence unveiled an immigration plan that would include increased border security, followed by strict enforcement of laws against hiring illegal aliens, and a guest worker program.

Vice President Mike Pence asserted in 2018 that the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution would not apply to "people who are in the country illegally".

In 2010, Vice President Mike Pence voted against the DREAM Act, which would grant the undocumented children of illegal immigrants conditional non-immigrant status if they met certain requirements.

In 2010, Pence said Arizona S B 1070, which at the time of passage in 2010 was the nation's broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration legislation, was "a good faith to try and restore order to their communities".

Vice President Mike Pence had previously proposed a similar but more aggressive reform plan than Bush's.

Vice President Mike Pence supported the Patriot Act on its passage in 2001, and in 2005 called the act "essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home".

Vice President Mike Pence was a sponsor of legislation in 2009 to extend three expiring provisions of the Patriot Act for an additional ten years.

Vice President Mike Pence "has been a longtime, aggressive advocate of trade deals" between the US and foreign countries.

Vice President Mike Pence has been a supporter of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and during his tenure in the House, he voted for every free-trade agreement that came before him.

Vice President Mike Pence voted in favor of the Central American Free Trade Agreement ; in favor of keeping the US in the World Trade Organization; and in favor of permanent normal trade relations with China.

Vice President Mike Pence supported bilateral free-trade agreements with Colombia, South Korea, Panama, Peru, Oman, Chile, and Singapore.

Vice President Mike Pence voted against the Trade and Globalization Act of 2007, which would have expanded Trade Adjustment Assistance to American workers adversely affected by globalization.

However, in 2014 Vice President Mike Pence called for the "swift adoption" of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, urging Indiana's congressional delegation to support the trade deal.

Vice President Mike Pence supported the Iraq War Resolution, which authorized military action against Iraq.

At the time, Vice President Mike Pence said "the surge is working" and defended the initial decision to invade in 2003.

Vice President Mike Pence has opposed closing the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and trying the suspected terrorists in the United States.

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Vice President Mike Pence has stated his support of Israel and its right to attack facilities in Iran to prevent the Iranians from developing nuclear weapons, has defended the actions of Israel in its use of deadly force in enforcing the blockade of Gaza, and has referred to Israel as "America's most cherished ally".

Vice President Mike Pence visited Israel in 2014 to express his support, and in 2016 signed into law a bill which would ban Indiana from having any commercial dealings with a company that boycotts Israel.

Two weeks prior to the NATO intervention in Libya, Vice President Mike Pence thanked the Obama administration and secretary of state Hillary Clinton for their efforts to isolate the Gaddafi regime.

On July 26,2018, Vice President Mike Pence raised the Xinjiang re-education camps issue at Ministerial To Advance Religious Freedom.

In 2009, Vice President Mike Pence led the Republican effort to defeat the American Clean Energy and Security Act, a Democratic-backed bill to cut greenhouse gas emissions through a cap-and-trade system.

On September 27,2016 Vice President Mike Pence said "there's no question" that human activity affects both the climate and the environment.

Vice President Mike Pence holds a lifetime rating of four percent from the League of Conservation Voters.

Vice President Mike Pence "repeatedly voted against energy efficiency and renewable energy funding and rules" and voted "for several bills that supported fossil fuel development, including legislation promoting offshore drilling".

Vice President Mike Pence has questioned proposals to decrease penalties for low-level marijuana offenses in Indiana, saying the state should focus on "reducing crime, not reducing penalties".

In 2013, Vice President Mike Pence expressed concern that a then-pending bill to revise the state's criminal code was not tough enough on drug crimes, and successfully lobbied to limit the reduction in sentencing of marijuana offenses.

Vice President Mike Pence signed Senate Bill8 to allow the death penalty for beheadings if the victim was alive at the time of the offense.

Vice President Mike Pence has been an advocate of federal restrictions on online gambling.

Vice President Mike Pence described the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, known as McCain–Feingold, which regulates the financing of political campaigns, as "oppressive restrictions on free speech".

Vice President Mike Pence added that no significant US group would disagree, as he saw it, about "the preciousness and importance of every human life".

Mike Pence was born to Nancy and Edward J Pence in 1959.

Vice President Mike Pence's father died in 1988, leaving his mother a widow with four grown children and two teenagers.

Michael Vice President Mike Pence is a first lieutenant and pilot in the United States Marine Corps.

On May 1,2004, Vice President Mike Pence's mother re-married – this time to Basil Coolidge Fritsch, a widower since 2001.

Greg and Mike are similar enough in appearance that Greg once successfully acted as a decoy to lure the press away from his brother when Mike Pence was being touted as a potential running mate to Donald Trump.

Marlon Bundo's: A Day in the Life of the Vice President was written by his daughter Charlotte and released on March 19,2018.

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Vice President Mike Pence was raised in a Catholic family, was as an altar server, and attended parochial school.

Vice President Mike Pence became a born-again Christian in college, while a member of a nondenominational Christian student group, and identified his first year—and specifically "a Christian music festival in Asbury, Kentucky, in the spring of 1978" referring to the Ichthus Music Festival at then Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky—as the moment he made a "commitment to Christ".

Vice President Mike Pence called himself Catholic in a 1994 news piece, although by 1995, he and his family had joined an evangelical megachurch, the Grace Evangelical Church.

Vice President Mike Pence has described himself as "a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order", and as "a born-again, evangelical Catholic".