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WASHINGTON Vice President Mike Pence plans to travel to Montana next week to campaign for a Republican congressional candidate running in a special election.

The vice president's office said Friday that Pence is expected to campaign for Greg Gianforte during the weekend of May 13. Details on the trip have not yet been finalized.

Montana is holding a May 25 special election to fill the seat vacated by Ryan Zinke, who resigned from Congress earlier this year to serve as President Donald Trump's Interior secretary.

Gianforte is competing against Democrat Rob Quist and Libertarian Mark Wicks for the state's only congressional seat.

A spokesman for Gianfortes campaign could not immediately be reached for comment.

Trump's sonDonald Trump Jr.is campaigning for Gianforte next week in Helena, Great Falls and Sidney, making his second trip on the GOP candidate's behalf.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., announced hell becoming to Montana in Mayto campaign for Quist, but those dates are still undetermined.

Pence's trip was first reported byThe Washington Post.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. Life is winning in America, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence told attendees at a pro-life gala on Wednesday evening in Washington, D.C.

Life is winning through the steady advance of so many areas of science that provide a glimpse at the unborn baby in the womb, the vice president said, through the generosity of millions of adoptive families, and through the compassionate caregivers and volunteers at crisis pregnancy centers and faith-based organizations, who minister to women in cities and towns across America.

Compassion is overcoming convenience, hope is defeating despair, he said.

Pence delivered the keynote address at the 10th annual gala of the Susan B. Anthony List on May 3rd in Washington, D.C.

The pro-life group honored Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) with the Marilyn Musgrave Defender of Life Award, and Leonard Leo, the executive vice president of The Federalist Society, with the 2017 Distinguished Leader Award.

SBA List president Marjorie Dannenfelser, in a statement, praised Blacks tireless efforts to investigate and defund Planned Parenthood, the nations #1 abortion business, and redirect their taxpayer dollars to real, comprehensive health care for women.

Black sponsored a joint resolution, ultimately signed by President Trump, that nullified an Obama administration rule which pro-life leaders had called the Presidents parting gift to the abortion industry. Blacks resolution allowed states to, once again, block clinics from receiving federal Title X grants if they performed abortions.

Vice President Pence had cast the tiebreaking vote in the U.S. Senate to ensure the passage of the resolution.

Leo, meanwhile, was credited for his work to help the Trump administration nominate Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, a pick that pro-life leaders applauded.

SBA List highlighted Pences past pro-life record as a U.S. congressman and as governor of Indiana, sponsoring more than two dozen pro-life bills in the U.S. House of Representatives as well as signing pro-life legislation into law in his state.

He also became the first sitting vice president to address the March for Life, this past January.

White House senior advisor Kellyanne Conway briefly addressed the gala attendees at the beginning of Wednesdays event, thanking them for their help in defending human life and promising that more would be done by the administration to protect life.

Pence, in his keynote speech, emphasized that life is winning in many ways, including through the quiet counsel between mothers and daughters, grandmothers and granddaughters, he continued, friends across kitchen tables.

He exhorted those in attendance to carry on the work of Susan B. Anthony, known for her activism for the abolition of slavery, womens suffrage and womens rights, and temperance. Let us strive with all our might to finish the work that Susan B. Anthony started, he said.

Susan B. Anthony fought against injustices, too many of which still survive to this day, Pence said, and abortion is the worst of them.

I truly believe that weve come to a pivotal moment in the life of this movement, the life of our nation, he said, asking those in attendance to continue to stand up and speak out.

We need every ounce of your energy and enthusiasm, he said. We need your prayers.

The recent passage of Blacks joint resolution was only the beginning of the fight, Pence said, and were going to see that fight all the way through.

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When considering vice president Mike Pence, one might be inclined to recall that time he voted against recognizing Pi Day, or his alleged tendency to refer to his wife as mother. In his latest ascension within the Trump administration, Pencewho is ostensibly a creationistwill be given the responsibility of leading a science and technology-oriented committee.

The initiative Pence will be helming is the National Space Council (NSC), which was originally founded under president Eisenhower in 1958 as a centralized coordinating authority to direct policy for agencies that deal with space, such as NASA, the Department of Defense, and the National Reconnaissance Office. Since then, the committee has been killed and resurrected a few times, most recently in 1989 for four years during the George H. W. Bush administration. In the 90s, president Clinton decided to deactivate the organization, as it wasnt doing anything particularly valuable. But no obvious warning signs will stop President Trumpat some point very soon, SpaceNews reports that hes expected to issue an executive order to reinstate the committee.

The recommendation coming out of the Trump campaign to create the National Space Council is going to happen, former space policy advisor Robert Walker, who once called NASAs earth sciences division politicized science, said at a symposium for Ultra Low-Cost Access to Space in Washington, D.C. Its a way of ensuring that the nations resources are all directed towards national goals.

So far, the Trump administration has appeared quite interested in space, if not in training the next generation of rocket scientists. Recently, it was announced that the federal government will give NASA $19.65 billion for the fiscal year 2017, which is about $600 million dollars more than the agency originally requested. Reviving the NSC could be the administrations way of showing that it wants to make sure all this money is being used effectivelyand with Mike Pence overseeing it, what could go wrong?

To be fair to Pence, having the vice president oversee the NSC is tradition. This is part of a historical artifact, John Logsdon, founder of The Space Policy Institute, told Gizmodo.In 1961, President Kennedy was looking to give Lyndon Johnson something to do as his vice president. When [Johnson] was in the senate in 1958, he had been the person most influential in creating the council, so Kennedy was advisedand agreedthat running the space council would be a good thing for Lyndon to do. Its been a vice presidential role ever since.

But according to Logsdon, whos written an incredibly comprehensive analysis of the NSCs history, reactivating the committee might not be the most effective way to coordinate US space activities. This is because, for one thing, the NSC was never really that influential of an organization.

Frankly, its never been very important, Logsdon explained. Its been used on a few occasions. It was used to put together the recommendations to President Kennedy to go the Moon.

Aside from a few blips on the relevancy radar, the NSC hasnt done much to make space great again...or ever. Some, like former NASA administrator James Webb, resented the extra buffer between his agency at the White House during the Kennedy administration. So, one has to ask, will reviving a historically insignificant organization be a spectacular waste?

Thats controversial, Logsdon said. I think theres a clear need for coordination of the national space effort at the level at the top of the government. Whether this is the best way to do it is arguable.

To be fair, some experts think that a revived NSC could act as a liaison between Congress and the White House to resolve funding disputes.Theres a lot of congressional guidance on the programs they fund, and they dont always align with the administrations viewpoints, James Reuter, deputy associate administrator for programs in NASAs space technology mission directorate, said at the Ultra Low-Cost Access to Space symposium. Perhaps a space council could help us. Others at the symposium expressed hope that the NSC would foster more government cooperation with the commercial space industry.

According to Logsdon, the NSC is made up of the vice president, the head of NASA, a senior official from the Department of Defense, and another official from the Department of Transportation of commerce, among other high-ranking officials. But the real work is done by its staff, he explained. So one of the key issues if this proposal emerges, is how many staff positions will the executive secretary have to do this coordinating job? Since its unclear how much the NSC will be able to staff upor how influential itll beLogsdon suggests that having an adequately staffed National Security Council would be a better use of time and resources.

In any case, the executive order to revive the NSC is expected to come down any day. We can only hope Mike Pence is prepared for the enormous burden of nothingness headed his way.

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WASHINGTON Vice President Mike Pence told pro-life activists at the Susan B. Anthony Lists Campaign for Life Gala on Wednesday that Congress will vote to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, on Thursday.

Tomorrow, we begin the end of Obamacare, he said.

House Republicans have announced that they will vote on their Obamacare replacement bill, the American Health Care Act, on Thursday.

When they vote to repeal and replace Obamacare we will finally defund Planned Parenthood, he said to applause.

Pence said that he believes the bill will usher in a new era for health care in America and be one of the Trump administrations defining victories for life.

He told activists that he brought greetings from President Donald Trump, whom he called a champion of life.

There is a president in the Oval Office who is fighting every day, I promise you, he said, fighting every single day, to restore the sanctity of life in American law.

He praised the organization for carrying on the pro-life feminism of its namesake, and fighting for the rights of women born and unborn that will and are and ever will be their birthright.

Pence argued that personnel is policy and Trump selected staff who are pro-life leaders, touting the recent announcement that Dr. Charmaine Yoest, the former president and CEO of Americans United for Life, will serve as assistant secretary of public affairs at HHS.

For the first time in a long time, Pence said, a presidential administration is full of people who stand without apology for life.

Pence argued that Trump kept his promise to appoint a pro-life justice to the court in Justice Neil Gorsuch.

As a candidate, Trump vowed to pro-life leaders on his campaigns Pro-Life Coalition which was spearheaded by Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser that he would nominate pro-life justices to the Supreme Court, sign the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act into law, reallocate federal funds granted to Planned Parenthood to community health centers, and to make the Hyde Amendment permanent law.

Kellyanne Conway, senior adviser to President Donald Trump, spoke at the gala beforePence. She vowed that the administration is just getting started on implementing pro-life policy.

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