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Rep. Greg Pence

Representative for Indiana’s 6th District

pronounced greg // pens

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Pence is the representative for Indiana’s 6th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2019. Pence is next up for reelection in 2022 and serves until Jan 3, 2023.

Pence is among the Republican legislators who participated in the months-long, multifarious attempted coup following the 2020 presidential election. Shortly after the election, Pence joined a case before the Supreme Court calling for all the votes for president in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — states that were narrowly won by Democrats — to be discarded, in order to change the outcome of the election, based on lies and a preposterous legal argument which the Supreme Court rejected. (Following the rejection of several related cases before the Supreme Court, another legislator who joined the case called for violence.) On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the insurrection at the Capitol, Pence voted to reject the state-certified election results of Arizona and/or Pennsylvania (states narrowly won by Democrats), which could have changed the outcome of the election. These legislators have generally changed their story after their vote, claiming it was merely a protest and not intended to change the outcome of the election as they clearly sought prior to the vote. The January 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol disrupted Congress’s count of electors that determined the outcome of the presidential election with the goal to prevent President Joe Biden from taking office.
Photo of Rep. Greg Pence [R-IN6]

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Pence is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Pence has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to May 13, 2022. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Greg Pence sits on the following committees:

Enacted Legislation

Pence was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

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Does 1 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Pence sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Transportation and Public Works (29%) Armed Forces and National Security (21%) Government Operations and Politics (21%) Science, Technology, Communications (14%) International Affairs (14%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Pence recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Pence voted Nay

Pence voted Nay

Pence voted Nay

Passed 333/81 on May 11, 2022.

Pence voted Nay

Pence voted Nay

Pence voted Yea

Passed 361/69 on Mar 9, 2022.

Pence voted Yea

Passed 265/163 on Jan 20, 2022.

Pence voted Yea

Passed 327/85 on Dec 21, 2020.
This bill became the vehicle for passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, a major government funding bill, which also included economic stimulus provisions due …

Pence voted Nay

Pence voted Nay

Passed 329/73 on Sep 17, 2020.

Pence voted Nay

Missed Votes

From Jan 2019 to May 2022, Pence missed 36 of 1,588 roll call votes, which is 2.3%. This is on par with the median of 2.1% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.

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Primary Sources

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