Many conservatives, I think, see action on climate change as really an attack on a way of life. That`s really a hard pill to swallow, that the whole way that I have created my life is wrong, you`re saying, that I shouldn`t have this house in the suburb, I shouldn`t be driving this car.

We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it.

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.