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

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

Our hope is we move beyond denial and into debate... If we cleaned up the air, would it really be bad for us?

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.

NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government.

There's a lot of Republicans who may have in the past been critical of fellow Catholics who they call 'cafeteria Catholics' who don't follow the church's teachings - say, on abortion. But now, are they going to become 'cafeteria Catholics' themselves and not follow the church's teachings on climate change?

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.