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.

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.

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

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

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

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.