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It's been more than a decade since a sitting vice president visited Billings, according to Gazette archives.

Then-Vice President Dick Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming,spoke at the Billings Hotel for 20 minutes on Oct. 2, 2006, according to Gazette archives.One-hundred-and-fifty people paid $250 a plate to see the vice president speak.

Like the upcoming visit of Vice President Mike Pence, Cheney's visit was aimed at boosting the chances of a Republican candidate in a race for Montana's lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.Pence will speak at the Montana Pavilionat MetraPark Friday at 6 p.m. Doors open at 4 p.m., and the event is free.

The 2006 fundraiser was on behalf of Rep. Denny Rehberg, but Cheney also spoke out against Republican Sen. Conrad Burns' Democratic opponent, then-State Sen. Jon Tester.

Then-Vice President Dick Cheney speaks during a fundraiser for then-Rep. Denny Rehberg at the Billings Hotel and Convention Center in Billings on Oct. 2, 2006. Current Vice President Mike Pence will speak at the Montana Pavilion of MetraPark Friday at 6 p.m. Doors open at 4 p.m., and the event is free.

Cheney attacked Tester for his opposition to the Patriot Act, a piece of legislation passed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that granted law enforcement and certain federal agencies unprecedented powers, which some critics have said are in violation of the privacy rights of U.S. citizens.

Referring to the Iraq War, Cheney said "retreat has failed in the past ... betraying friends only heightens the danger to America," and he urged attendees to "reject this defeatism," of the war.

Cheney highlighted the Bush administration's economic policies, specifically pointing to tax cuts that he credited with fueling economic growth. Despite his promise that more people were working and the standard of living for American workers was "on the rise," only one of the two congressional candidates Cheney stumped for that night would return to Washington after the election's conclusion.

Neither then-Democratic State Rep. Monica Lindeen nor Libertarian candidate Mike Fellows were able to defeat Rehberg. Tester, however, won his race against Burns.

Prior to Cheney, the last sitting vice president to visit Billings was Dan Quayle, vice president under George H.W. Bush, in 1992.

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Vice President Mike Pence and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke are scheduled to visit a coal mine on the Crow Reservation Friday. The Trump Administration has voiced its support for the coal industry, but spokesmen for the industry and an environmental organization arent certain what can be done to help that ailing energy source.

Still the executive director of the Montana Coal Council is pleased the AbsalokaMine was selected to showcase the industry.

Bud Clinch says the visit gives officials the opportunity to, share with them the unique relationship that exists there between a private coal mining company and the Crow Tribe because the majority of the miners there are Crow members.

The Absaloka Mine is a partnership between Westmoreland Coal Company and others formed to lease and mine the coal reserves from the Crow Tribe.

Clinch said the visit is important as Trump Administration has already taken steps to reverse rules and regulations put into place by the Obama Administration. He said while that has provided some relief, the coal industry still faces competition from cheap natural gas thats being used for electric generation.

Are things perfect and rosy? Certainly not, said Clinch. But there are vastly improved over what theyve been in the last few years.

Derf Johnson is a staff attorney for the Montana Environmental Information Center. He said coal faces another pressure from cheap and abundant renewable energy.

Dont take it from me, Johnson said. Take it from Warren Buffett. Take it from utilities. Take it from energy experts. That is the long term prediction for the coal industry.

Johnson doubts a visit to a Montana coal mine by Trump Administration officials can stop the long term structural decline and demand for coal.

The way theyve been portraying the potential rebound for the coal industry is really dishonest, he said. It doesnt comport with reality. It doesnt comport with the way the economics of energy are moving forward into the future and I think its giving people a sense of false hope.

After the mine tour, Vice President Mike Pence and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke are scheduled to meet with industry and Crow tribal representatives for a business roundtable.

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By midday, the White House effort to appear less Nixonian was continuing apace. After all, what could appear less Nixonian than meeting the Russian ambassador and then doing a photo op in the Oval with Henry Kissinger?

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And then, of course, there's Mike Pence, who really is a remarkable piece of smarm sculpture. Pence dropped by the Senate and he dropped a little mendacity on the assembled media, as The Hill reports.

"The president's decision to accept the recommendation of the deputy attorney general and the attorney general to remove Director Comey as the head of the FBI was based solely and exclusively on his commitment to the best interest of the American peopleI personally am very grateful that we have a president willing to show the kind of strong and decisive leadership" necessary to fire him."

Remember how Nixon used to refer to himself as The President when he wanted to come off as particularly macho? That's what Pence was dealing with here. Unfortunately for the notably unpopular former governor of Indiana, it only took The New York Times about 45 minutes to make Pence look enough like a tool that he should be hanging on a hook in Home Depot. As they used to say back in the day, follow the money:

Days before he was fired, James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, asked the Justice Department for a significant increase in money and personnel for the bureau's investigation into Russia's interference in the presidential election, according to three officials with knowledge of his request. Mr. Comey asked for the resources during a meeting last week with Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who wrote the Justice Department's memo that was used to justify the firing of the F.B.I. director this week. Mr. Comey then briefed members of Congress on the meeting in recent days.

The ominous howling of King Timahoe grows ever louder.

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Vice President Mike Pence toldreporters at the Capitol that he did not think an independent prosecutor was necessary to investigate potential collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

The facts that are in public today are very clear," Pence said in an interview televised by CNN.

"The former director of DNI has said there is no evidence of collusion, Pence added, though that misstatedwhat James Clapper, former director of national intelligence, has testified.

Pence defended Comey's ouster against accusations that it was designed to halt the Russia investigation, repeatedly praising Trump's "decisiveaction" and leadership.

"The president made the right decision at the right time, Pence said.

Pence repeated the White House talking point that the decision was based on the recommendation of Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein. He said Trump has begun evaluating potential replacements.

The simple fact is Director Comey had lost the support of the American people, Pence said.

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