I have voted to make tough DECISIONS in budgetary TIMES, I've served on TWO recessionary budgets, my opponent has never served on any a BUDGET COMMITTEE where there was less money to spend than the year before.

We MAKE a SERIES of INVESTMENTS, some will PAN out and some won't.

We SAW in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an ILLNESS called SARS. SARS ENDED up killing 800 PEOPLE which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as HIGH as it could have been.

We must recognize that we're all PART of a web of life around the WORLD. ANYTIME you extinguish a SPECIES, the consequences are serious.

Terri's death brings to a CLOSE a very tragic, HUMAN and PERSONAL event that has LEFT everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what SIDE of the issue you may have been on.

It is true that I will CONFESS that I have an incredible FASCINATION for pop-culture stories about the APOCALYPSE and the end of the WORLD.

The MAIN PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY of a PERSON in BUSINESS is business.

I was not much INTERESTED in school, and both at secondary school and at UNIVERSITY, I only just scraped through, with as little effort as I judged POSSIBLE WITHOUT failing.

My parents got divorced when I was really YOUNG and I was a very hyperactive KID, so both parents independently WOULD play Enya at the house to CALM me down and soothe me as a kid.

I FIRST DECIDED to RUN for Congress when I was 29 - and became a Representative at the age of 30.