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https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/18/politics/mike-pence-mothers-day-care/index.html

Quote:Mike Pence argued in 1997 that "day-care kids get the short end of the emotional stick" and that households with two working parents lead to "stunted emotional growth."


The Indiana governor and Republican vice presidential candidate condemned what he called "the big lie that 'Mom doesn't matter'" in a letter to the editor of The Indianapolis Star.


"For years, we have gotten the message from the mouthpieces of the popular culture that you can have it all, career, kids and a two-car garage. The numbers in this federally funded study argue that the converse is true," Pence wrote.

"Sure, you can have it all, but your day-care kids get the short end of the emotional stick."

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-pence-unpaid-leave_us_57d86264e4b0aa4b722d20e0

Quote:Trump’s choice for vice president, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, must be having a change of heart when it comes to family leave. In his time in Congress from 2001 to 2012, Pence appears to have been no different from the majority of GOP office-holders on this front. When he had the opportunity to support a stronger family leave law, he either declined to back it or voted against it.

When House Democrats proposed a national paid leave law in 2008 and again in 2009, it did not enjoy Pence’s backing. Nor did the Democratic proposal, introduced session after session, to guarantee workers paid sick days.


“Mike Pence is no fan of paid leave as far as I know,” said Vicki Shabo, vice president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, which has been tracking paid leave laws for years.


In fact, Pence did not support even narrow expansions of family leave, be it paid or unpaid.


While Pence was in Congress, Democrats tried to expand the unpaid leave law already on the books. The Family and Medical Leave Act only covers businesses with at least 50 employees. That carves out a lot of workers who are employed by small businesses. Over the years, Democrats have tried to put more workplaces under the law in order to guarantee unpaid leave for more workers. Pence, however, did not join as a co-sponsor on the bills, which never made it into law.


Democrats also tried to pass a paid family leave guarantee for federal employees, who only enjoy unpaid leave, while Pence was in Congress. (Federal workers only have unpaid family leave, and they’re encouraged to use paid sick days after having a child.) In 2008, a measure providing four weeks of paid leave to federal employees made it to the floor and actually passed, though not with Pence’s help. He voted against it. Notably, 50 of Pence’s Republican colleagues crossed the aisle to join Democrats on the family-friendly measure. (The measure never passed the Senate, and federal workers still have no paid leave guarantee.)


In 2009, Democrats made another run at the same measure. This time, they peeled off 24 Republicans to support it. Politico reported on the hint of support for paid leave on the GOP side, writing that House Republicans had found “a novel way to rid themselves of the Democrats’ ‘party of no’ label.” 

But the show of bipartisanship didn’t include Pence that time, either. He still voted no.