Souder has said that an actual voting record in Congress is more valuable than claimed positions on issues.

The 2006 election was significantly different than 2004, when the 3rd district voted 68 %- 32 % for George W. Bush over John Kerry, and re-elected Souder 69 %- 31 % ( when Souder faced Maria Parra, a Democrat who made national headlines when she walked off the stage during a televised debate ).

The Monster Hero returns to the Health Club, killing a drug dealer ( Dennis Souder ) by crushing his face with a weight lifting machine.

On May 18, 2010, Souder announced his resignation from Congress effective May 21, 2010, after admitting to an affair with one of his part-time female staff members.

Souder served as an aide for United States Representative Dan Coats from 1983 to 1984 ; as minority staff director of the House Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families from 1985 to 1988 ; and again as an aide for Coats from 1988 to 1993, staying with Coats when he became a United States Senator in 1989.

On May 18, 2010, Souder announced he would resign from Congress effective Friday, May 21, after admitting to an affair with Tracy Meadows Jackson, a married female staffer .< REF NAME =" CILIZZA0518 "/> Famously, he and Ms. Jackson had made a public video in which they both extolled the virtues of abstinence.

Souder, however, withdrew his official support for Kelty in October 2007 because of Kelty's campaign finance law problems and a birthday cake frosted with a crude joke which was given to Kelty by several Republicans and garnered controversy.

Representative Mark Souder of Indiana is very famous among the elite SSDP social circles as the author of the Aid Elimination Penalty in the Higher Education Act Amendments of 1998.

Souder is seen, to well-informed members of SSDP, as one of the foremost proposers of insensible marijuana policies.

In 2004, alongside several other Republican members of Congress, including Mark Souder and Katherine Harris, Ballenger submitted an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court case Gonzales v. Raich, defending the federal government's power to raid, arrest, prosecute and imprison patients who use medical marijuana even in states that have declared such use legally permitted.

The " legalizers " comment came in a Dear Colleague letter written by Souder supporting the Higher Education Act Aid Elimination Penalty.

Souder was the Ranking Member on the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.

Until the start of the 110th Congress, Souder was chairman of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources.

" Souder also applied for non-combatant status during the Vietnam War on religious grounds.

Souder is a supporter of the War on Drugs.

On February 9, 2007, Souder appeared as a guest on MSNBC's The Situation With Tucker Carlson.

The congressman later went on to say " No drug user is a single drug user " and " a marijuana user is very seldom just a casual marijuana user ", to which Carlson said that, based upon users he knows, Souder was wrong.

In 2002, after redistricting based on the 2000 census, Souder was elected to represent Indiana's 3rd congressional district.

The bipartisan Workplace Religious Freedom Act ( WRFA ) was introduced in the United States Senate by Senator Rick Santorum ( R-Pennsylvania ) and Senator John Kerry ( D-Massachusetts ) on March 17, 2005, and in the House of Representatives by Representatives Mark Souder ( R-IN ), Carolyn McCarthy ( D-NY ), Bobby Jindal ( R-LA ), and Anthony Weiner ( D-NY ).

In early 2006, Souder added, to a bill about the office of the drug czar, a provision calling for the fungus Fusarium oxysporum to be used as a biological control agent against drug crops in foreign countries.

As Ásatrú implies a focus on polytheistic belief in the Æsir usage of the term in Scandinavia has declined somewhat.

It has since declined owing to the loss of most of the heavy industry.

Today the language has declined in popularity along with the Amiga computer for which it was written.

The high content of zinc in coinage and brass objects declined after the first century AD and it has been suggested that this reflects zinc loss during recycling and thus an interruption in the production of new brass.

Textile processing generally has declined since the mid-1990s, although clothing exports have grown steadily since 2000.

In the face of screen-reader software, braille usage has declined.

The population in the northern Free State, Limpopo, Gauteng, Mpumalanga and North West Province has declined by up to 1 %.

Fishing has declined due to habitat degradation, overfishing, trawling, bycatch and climate change.

The plant occurs as a rare casual in the British Isles, mainly in southern England, but the frequency of its occurrence has declined greatly.

In spite of its early meteoric rise, church membership has declined sharply over the past eight decades, according to the church's former treasurer, J. Edward Odegaard.

The population of a number of native predatory reptiles has declined, such as the varanid lizards Varanus mertensi, V. mitchelli, and V. panoptes, the land snakes Pseudechis australis and Acanthophis antarcticus, and the crocodile species Crocodylus johnstoni ; in contrast, the population of the agamid lizard Amphibolurus gilberti — known to be a prey item of V. panoptes — has increased.

Most modern cannon are similar to those used in the Second World War, although the importance of the larger caliber weapons has declined with the development of missiles.

Since the international adoption of the MKS standard in the 1940s and the SI standard in the 1960s, the technical use of CGS units has gradually declined worldwide, in the United States more slowly than elsewhere.

Sparsely populated in relation to its area, the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ) is home to a vast potential of natural resources and mineral wealth, its untapped deposits of raw minerals are estimated to be worth in excess of US $ 24 trillion, yet the economy of the DRC has declined drastically since the mid-1980s.

Output of sugar has declined annually since 1982, and land is gradually being taken out of sugar production and switched to food crops.

African AIDS cases, though, have increased in the last three decades as HIV's prevalence has increased but as malnutrition percentages and poor sanitation have declined in many African regions.

Estimated dietary intake has also declined, although FDA food tests commonly detect it.

Many of Dublin's traditional industries, such as food processing, textile manufacturing, brewing, and distilling have gradually declined, although Guinness has been brewed at the St. James's Gate Brewery since 1759.

The extreme poverty rate has declined significantly between 1999 and 2010.

The story of Æthelred's notorious nickname, " Æthelred the Unready ", from Old English Æþelræd Unræd, goes a long way toward explaining how his reputation has declined through history.

Gabon is sub-Saharan Africa ’ s third-largest crude oil producer and exporter, although there are concerns that proven reserves are declining and production has declined as well.

The role of the UK Ministry of Defence, which at one time was Gibraltar's main source of income, has declined, with today's economy mainly based on shipping, tourism, financial services, and the Internet.

While economic growth has declined since 2001 due to adverse shocks, including slowdown in the global economy and natural disasters, fiscal policy became more expansionary when privatization receipts declined.