Evan Bayh: “If it is the former, we can ratchet up economic, financial, diplomatic, cultural, all sorts of pressure.”

I rise today to honor the life of SSG Kevin Matthew Pape of the U.S. Army and Fort Wayne, IN. Staff Sergeant Pape was assigned to C Company, 1st Battalion, in the 75th Ranger Regiment at Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia. He was 30 years old…

Capital liquidity standards, resolution protocols, how we handle derivatives, all those kinds of things, it is just important that we harmonize as much as possible.

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

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.