I was recruited by my wife the day after the Presidential election. My daughters were visually upset at the results and asked, 'What are we going to do?' I told my wife Christie that they were right. I had to do something. It was my time to step up and serve.

"I'm not going to make a career out of this" he says. In June 2011 Schilling introduced a bill to prevent members of Congress from receiving their congressional pension before they reach the Social Security retirement age. He has said that the federal government should stop regulating education and that local schools should be under local control.

Schilling challenged incumbent Democrat Phil Hare in the November 2010 election and defeated Hare by ten points. Robert Todd "Bobby" Schilling (born January 23 1964) is the former U.