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updated 8:55 a.m. ET July 17, 2007

METAIRIE, La. - Senator David Vitter will be back on Capitol Hill today, a day after emerging from seclusion over his admitted links to a Washington escort service.

The Louisiana Republican held hands with his wife at a suburban New Orleans news conference where he again apologized for his past behavior. The first-term senator also denied having relationships with New Orleans prostitutes.

Vitter did not take questions. But his wife, Wendy, stepped to the podium and called her husband her "best friend."

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She says she forgave him years ago, adding, "To forgive is not always the easy choice, but it was and is the right choice for me."