Chuck Fleischmann

Small business is the backbone of America.

I think we ought to take Al Gore, put him on an iceberg, and put him way out there.

I wear frayed khaki pants.

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.