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.

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

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?

We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

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