Evan Bayh: “For those of you who favor the closure of the locks, what can be done about this flooding issue?”

In all likelihood there were gay Americans serving at Valley Forge, there were gay Americans at Gettysburg, there were gay Americans on Normandy Beach, there are gay Americans serving in Iraq and Afghanistan today.

Our national security has not been harmed by the integration of the Armed Forces.

I had no idea until I was talking to Senator Bennet yesterday about his father's long commitment to public service.

I believe is discriminatory. Times have changed since then and it seems to me we should respond to those changes, changes in the attitude of our people, the acceptance of gay and lesbian people in the workplace.