At the same time, Jim Webb said, he should be talking about how he will be the 14th Scotch-Irish president if he's to win this race, as well.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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...