I represented the 4th District of South Carolina... from the election '92 until election '98. And then I was out six years and then came back for another six years between the election 2004 and the election 2010.

The federal government can't remodel every firehouse and buy every new policeradio in the name of Homeland Security.

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.

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

I think we`re all experiencing climate change. Experience is an effective teacher. It`s sometimes a very harsh teacher. So we will be taught about climate change.

Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.

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.