And I'm going to work like heck for the next 14 months to get Virginians to hire me.

Virginia Governor Tim Kaine has closed a legal leap hole that allowed Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho to purchase weapons.

I think this is one of those very unfortunate situations where completely inadvertently he took the weapon into the Senate yesterday.

If you've had a chance to read the biographies, the short stories of those who were killed, you just uncover marvelous stories of joy and learning, of friendships, of hobbies and the thrill of teaching and educating generations of…

Governor Tim Kaine is setting up an independent panel to search for answers, as well as how to prevent anything like this from ever happening again.

I have never carried a gun in the Capitol complex, and I did not give the weapon to Phillip Thompson. And that's all.

Democrat Senator Jim Webb of Virginia went on the record to explain how a trusted aide of his named Phillip Thompson ended up getting stopped by police with the senator's loaded pistol at a checkpoint in the Capitol complex.

The incident is an oversight and says the aide is a former Marine and a trusted employee of the senator.

The gun actually belonged to Senator Webb, and that Webb had given Thompson the gun on the way to the airport.

To our knowledge, this incident was an oversight by the senator's aide.

I would, first of all, like to thank all the panelists for their testimony.

I agree with you from a totally different set of experiences that income averaging has its benefits.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have moved up to a better mike here.

If I may, on a couple of points: One is, we had a trade deficit last year of $832 billion...

Someone may have asked this question before I got here, but I have heard it said that a lot of the proponents of wage insurance, argue, either directly or implicitly, that it would encourage workers to take lower-paying jobs.

Do you agree that immediate, full accountability is essential for money already appropriated and spent?

I have a high regard for Admiral Fallon.

I have run out of time and I wish all of you gentlemen the best in your new positions.