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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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