If we fulfill our responsibility to the Constitution, the Supreme Court will be filled with superior legal minds who will pursue the one agenda that our founding fathers intended in writing the Constitution: justice, rather than political or personal goals.

If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.

I don't like to see facts twisted, untruths fabricated to give the [Supreme Court] nominee a black eye, even before he comes before Senate committee.

It wouldn't do me much good to back somebody that won in Iowa if they can't carry on the campaign elsewhere.

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities

John Marshall's warning that the power to tax is the power to destroy has taken on far greater meaning... more specifically, the power of the Internal Revenue Service is threatening to destroy the freedom of religion , guaranteed by the First Amendment. As part of that guarantee, Congress has granted tax exemptions for churches to avoid excessive interference in their religious activities.