I continued to serve in Congress until 2001.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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.
I was a very, very good congressman.
I was in the Minnesota state Senate from 2000 until 2006. In 2006, I was urged to run for Congress, I did. And I've been here ever since.
I also served on many government committees.
I will leave the U.S. Congress when the term for which I was elected expires in January 2011 and return to the practice of law with a sense of duty fulfilled.
When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.
I'm honored to have served for 18 years as Arizona's 10th Senator - and for four terms in the House of Representatives before that.
I ran for Congress, just once.
I didn't leave the Congress; I was expelled.