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Rep. Greg Pence (R-IN)

Editors Note: The Armenian Weekly Editorial Board has corrected the story below to reflect the accurate name of the school that Congressman Pence visited in November. During a phone conversation with the Weekly, Congressman Pences office denied the following events, conveyed to the Weekly by a source, ever took place.

Evidence that the State Departments gag rule on discussing the Armenian Genocide is alive and well arose the week after the historic landslide vote in the United States House of Representatives. While the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.296) passed by a vote of 405 to 11, notable among the 11 no votes was Republican Congressman Greg Pence of Indiana, older brother of Vice President Mike Pence.

When Congressman Pence visited Central Middle School in Columbus, Indiana the week after the vote, school administrators directed teachers that no one should raise the Genocide Resolution or Cong. Pences no vote during his visit. It is reasonable to infer that Pences staff requested the imposition of the gag rule and that he wanted to avoid the embarrassment of defending his vote.

While it is possible that Pences staff was trying to avoid partisan politics during a school visit, Congressman Pences own words contradict this. In an article reporting on the visit in the Columbus Republic newspaper, Pence is quoted at length denouncing the Houses impeachment inquiry and calling it a Soviet-style or Russian-style witch hunt.

Congressmen Pences office has denied the aforementioned events, as conveyed to the Weekly by a source.

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