http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/03/03/the-only-physicist-in-congress-finally-able-to-join-science-committee-vows-to-explain-science-to-colleagues/
"If asking an actual scientist to help oversee Congress’s decisions regarding science funding and research seems kind of like a no-brainer, then you are officially smarter than Congress. Unlike Foster, most of the Republican-led Science Committee is filled with politicians who are intentionally anti-science."