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.

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

I'm not impressed by your assertion that there are thousands of facts. That's your job. That's the FBI agent's job.

I know for a fact of much of the success we're experiencing, including the ability of Americans in many parts -- not all.

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

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

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

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This is a time for acting in a way that's responsible. If you really want to stop the war, cut the funding. It does make you accountable for what happens thereafter, but you have done something as a matter of principle.

We don't have the technical capacity to create something like that.

I do not endorse or support his views on President Bush or almost any other issue, particularly that's unrelated to being a mayor.

It would be preferable to have the matter transcribed.

You really are, in so many ways, a role model for us all, just -- not just as elected leaders, but really as citizens of -- of this -- of this country.

Do you know how many hundreds of thousands of fans you have out there that would like to follow your lead, and this pledge merely says as you can read it up there, that you're agreeing to consume no more energy in your residence than the…

Thousands of meteorologists and geologists, physicists, astrophysicists, climatologists, scientists who disagree with you, are they all wrong and you're right?

My perspective has been that some of the statements that you have made are -- have inaccuracies and have been misleading.

I obviously sat here with you 30 years ago. What you were saying about environmental issues back then really do make you look like a prophet.