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.

Most of us complain about Congress. We say it's a place that doesn't reflect us; they don't listen to us. Actually, Congress well reflects the American people. It gives us exactly what we ask for.

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.

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.

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?