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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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Vice President Mike Pence joined "CBS This Morning" to discuss the Trump administration's stance on North Korea, the United States' relationship with China, and the budget deal Congress passed over the weekend. Below is a full transcript.

CHARLIE ROSE: We're in the East Room, having a remarkable day, a special day for us-- getting a chance to see this magnificent building, feel the patriotism, feel the sense of history here. And we're especially glad now to be joined by the vice president of the United States. Welcome.

VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: Thank you very much. And welcome to the White House.

GAYLE KING: Thank you.

CHARLIE ROSE: Let me begin with North Korea. You were there. Tell me the impact of being there-- and-- and where you think this conflict is right now. Because the president talked to John Dickerson and-- and characterized the North Korean leader.

VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: Well, it's-- it's a very serious time in the region. And it's a very serious threat to the peace and stability of our allies. And-- I-- I think-- as the president has said again and again, North Korea represents the most serious security threat in the world.

And he wanted me to go there. He wanted me to reaffirm our commitment to South Korea, to Japan, to our allies in the region, but to stand there, as I had the privilege to do-- at the DMZ and to look into North Korea-- for me-- was-- it-- it was-- it was a chilling experience to-- to look into a nation-- living under the kind of oppressive regime-- that--

CHARLIE ROSE: Everybody--

VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: --Kim family means in Pyongyang.

CHARLIE ROSE: Everybody knows-- that the best way to get something done here is through China, with China. The president constantly talks about this relationship he has with Xi Jinping. What are the Chinese doing, specifically, that's making-- the chances of eliminating this problem--

VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: Well, look--

CHARLIE ROSE: --easier?

VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: --we-- yeah, the-- and the president's made it clear. We seek a peaceable solution here. And-- but the key is that-- that-- the message he had me make clear, he had the secretary of state make clear, and he's made clear, is that the era of strategic patience is over-- that-- that now, for more than a quarter of a century, the United States has-- has-- in-- in one way or another-- negotiated, had talks, waited patiently. All the while we've seen the regime in North Korea continue its headlong pursuit of nuclear weapons-- and a ballistic missile program.

And the president said that's over. We're engaging our allies in the region, to economically and diplomatically isolate North Korea. But what's really new here, I think it's a great encouragement to people across this country and across the world, is that you have a president-- in President Trump who's engaging directly with the president of China. And we are seeing China do more than they have done before.

CHARLIE ROSE: And what is that?

VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: Well, we-- we have word of-- of China turning back coal shipments from North Korea. We have word of them-- beginning to-- reduce the amount of commercial travel that exists between North Korea. But as the secretary of state said at the U.N. last week, China needs to do more.

We're calling on our allies in the region to reconsider their diplomatic relations with North Korea. We're-- we're calling on allies in the region to reconsider their guest worker program that provides an enormous amount of cur-- currency to the regime. The key here is for the-- the United States-- and our allies in the region, working with China-- to provide the kind of economic and diplomatic pressure that will result in the regime in Pyongyang-- ending permanently-- their nuclear and ballistic missile ambition.

Now we also made it clear all options are on the table. And-- in-- in-- in actions the world has seen the president take in Syria and Afghanistan, President Trump in a very real way has-- has restored the credibility of American power. And they know that-- they know that we are-- we are prepared to defend our allies and defend--

GAYLE KING: So we've made it clear--

VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: --ourselves. But we're going to drive toward a peaceable solution.

GAYLE KING: We've made it clear, Mr. Vice President. Have they -- have-- do you have a sense of what they want in return from us?

CHARLIE ROSE: The North Koreans?

GAYLE KING: Yes. Yes.

VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: Well, we-- I-- I don't think we do at this point. We continue to see one provocation after another. This-- this weekend began with-- another failed missile launch from North Korea-- even while the world community was discussing the issue at the U.N. Security--

GAYLE KING: So how--

VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: --Council.

GAYLE KING: --do we get at that, to find out, "What do you want in return?" What-- what is the whole purpose here--

VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: Well, I-- I-- honestly, I think North Korea knows what the world community wants. The world community has been united for--

GAYLE KING: No, I want to

VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: --a quarter of a century.

GAYLE KING: --know what they want. What-- I-- I'm-- I'm curious about what their-- what they want.

VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: Well--

NORAH O'DONNELL: --they want an end to sanctions--

VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: Well-- well, thean -- I think this is a terrific question because one of the things that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has made clear is that under President Donald Trump we are not going to negotiate to get the right to negotiate. We're not going to negotiate to get at the negotiating table. North Korea knows through U.N. actions in the past, through pronouncements by the world community, they need to abandon their nuclear program, abandon their ballistic missile program, they need to stand down in a very real sense to have the right to engage the world community on the way forward.

NORAH O'DONNELL: Mr. Vice President, can I ask you, before Congress finally reached agreement on this spending agreement last night so there won't be a government shutdown, but it does not include money for the wall and it does continue funding for Planned Parenthood. Are you disappointed?

VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: We couldn't be more pleased that thanks to President Trump's leadership and direct engagement, last night at the White House and leaders in the House and Senate in both parties signed off on a budget deal. It'll avert a government shutdown but more important than that there's going to be a significant increase in military spending. Our armed forces have been hollowed out in recent years by budget cuts. 21 billion dollars in defense spending in this bill. There's also a down payment on border security. I think the American people are encouraged to hear that since our inauguration, illegal border crossings are down 60 plus percent in this country. And in this bill there's a down payment on additional border security. I'm also pleased to see as the President was insistent on that we're providing support for health benefits for coal miners and here in the District of Columbia we're continuing an educational choice program for disadvantaged children that began back in the days when I was in the Congress. So this is a budget deal that's a bipartisan win for the American people and the President signed off on the parameters early yesterday. Republicans and Democrats reached an agreement with the White House last night and I think--

NORAH O'DONNELL: There was compromise--

VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: --that's a good piece of Monday morning news for the American people.

NORAH O'DONNELL: --there was compromise.

GAYLE KING: The President told John Dickerson over the weekend that there was a learning curve for the Republican party and he said for himself as well. Do you feel that?

VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: Well for me it's just been an incredibly humbling experience to be able to come to this building every day to serve as Vice President to President Donald Trump. But I think for our colleagues on Capitol Hill particularly, as we continue to drive toward our promise of repealing and replacing Obamacare, as we lay a foundation for an infrastructure bill, for President Trump's call for the largest tax cut in American history, I think this the learning process for many on Capitol Hill about governing has been moving forward.

And I think this morning's announcement about reaching a bipartisan deal on budget says that the American people can be encouraged that Washington is working again thanks to the strong leadership of President Donald Trump. Thanks to his direct engagement with members of congress. We're seeing real progress

GAYLE KING: I hear you have Wednesday night dinners for people

NORAH O'DONNELL: Thank you, Mr. Vice President, we are out of time. Thank you so much--

GAYLE KING: --I would like to come to a Wednesday night dinner.

NORAH O'DONNELL: --for joining us.

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posted at 10:41 pm on May 2, 2017 by Allahpundit

I asked the same question this morning. There are no good answers but there are answers.

RUSH: Mr. Vice President, weve been told this for 15 years, well get em next time, after every continuing resolution

THE VICE PRESIDENT: No, we got em this time.

RUSH: well get em next time, well kick the can down the road, well get em next time.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: We got em this time, $21 billion in defense spending at a time I gotta tell you, I was out there visiting troops in South Korea. I was standing on the deck of the USS Reagan in the harbor in Japan. Look, the president has made it clear, his number one priority is national defense and national security. And to say in this very first budget bill, instead of getting gridlock, instead of getting a government shutdown, which Washingtons been pretty good at for a while, we actually made process and were making a significant investment (crosstalk)

RUSH: Okay, but why then is the president now suggesting a budget shutdown in September or October? If its no good now, why is it good then? You guys were sent there to drain the swamp. Theres a clear Trump agenda that just isnt seeable. Its not visible in this budget, and some people are getting concerned that theres more concern for bipartisanship and crossing the aisle, working with Democrats, than there is in draining the swamp and actually peeling away all of the roughage that is preventing actually moving forward here on so many of these issues that affect people domestically.

The only way to defend the bill is to focus on defense spending, particularly the fact that Republicans didnt have to match that $21 billion for the Pentagon dollar-for-dollar with funding for non-military domestic programs, as was the case during the Obama era. How difficult was it to wring that concession from Schumer given the state of play in foreign policy, though? Were on the brink of a war with North Korea thatll devastate the Korean peninsula and could conceivably turn nuclear, with thousands of American soldiers in harms way. We just attacked Syria to punish Assad for crossing the red line against chemical weapons, a move cheered by both parties, including just today by Hillary Clinton. Democrats are seething at Putin and Russia for meddling in the campaign and eager for Trump to take a more hostile posture towards Moscow. And of course theyre under pressure to reconnect with Trumps blue-collar base, many of whom are suspicious of the left for being weak and politically correct towards terrorism. Under the circumstances, Democrats had lots of incentives not to resist a boost to defense spending. If theyd gone to the mat to block it and war broke out next week with Pyongyang, Fox News would be running headlines for weeks about liberals having stabbed Americas troops in the back in a moment of crisis. That $21 billion is a win, but its not some uniquely Republican win the way that, say, choking off funding for the border wall is a clear win for Democrats. And dont forget its a much smaller number than Trump had asked for. Even his big win is something of a defeat.

Also, explain this logic to me from Mick Mulvaneys presser today:

White House budget director Mick Mulvaney angrily ripped Democrats for spiking the football over the spending bill passed this week that funds the government through September, saying President Trump cut a tremendous deal for the American people.

Mulvaney added that the Democrats wanted a shutdown to make the Trump administration look bad

They wanted a shutdown. We know that, he said. They were desperate to make this administration look like we couldnt function, like we couldnt govern.

If the bill is a victory for Republicans because it averted a shutdown, whats the argument for ever going to the mat and refusing a Democratic demand? Why not cave on everything? Schumer will spend the next four years trying to make the White House look like it cant function. (With the GOP paralyzed on health care, he doesnt need to work hard.) If top priority for Team Trump is making sure not to give him any evidence to support that claim then theyre going to have to cave in September too, when Trump vowed the GOP would make its stand. And now that Schumers seen how nervous Trump and Mulvaney are about being blamed if a shutdown occurs, hes going to push at least as hard next time as he did this time. Semi-serious exit question: Is defense spending all Schumer needs to compromise on in order to win on everything else? If Pence is willing to sell this turd of a bill on the Rush Limbaugh Show as some great victory simply because Democrats didnt hassle the White House on money for the troops, Schumer might happily repeat that bargain going forward. Trump gets money for the military, Dems get to say theyre tough on national defense, and meanwhile the left wins on everything else.

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