http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trump-vp-pick-mike-pence-congress-225547 Pence was the anti-Trump in Congress
With few exceptions, the VP pick was a down-the-line conservative during his dozen years in the House — as measured and pre-packaged as Trump is freewheeling.
By Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan
07/15/16 11:07 AM EDT
It'd be a stretch to call Mike Pence the attack dog Donald Trump said he wanted. But the Indiana governor, Trump’s choice for vice president, definitely had a flair for the dramatic during his dozen years in the House of Representatives, using the kind of soaring — and at times searing — rhetoric he honed as a talk radio host.
The son of a gas station owner who grew up a Democrat, the 57-year-old former congressman once declared that he wasn't just a Republican; he was a “Christian, a conservative and a Republican” — pause for effect — “in that order.” Pence didn't just want to get rid of the Democratic health care law; he wanted to “repeal Obamacare — lock, stock, and barrel.”
Once, during a closed-door House Republican Conference meeting, Pence went so far as to liken the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Obamacare to the 9/11 attacks. And when President Barack Obama came to visit House Republicans in 2010, it was Pence, then No. 3 in GOP leadership, who decided to open the session to TV cameras, setting up a defining moment in the confrontation between the president and the rising congressional majority.
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