Evan Bayh: “Providence, Rhode Island, has been a great story that has happened, not many years ago a place that was in real trouble.”

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

The reason for the study, as I recall, was that many of us understood that there was a potential risk here that probably had to be dealt with.

I know we are not supposed to recognize people in the gallery, but I am going to break the rules for one of the first times here to thank my wife. We have been married for 25 wonderful years, and frankly, Mr. President, I wouldn't have…

I will make one comment I do not expect you to respond to, but a skeptic might look at all this and say what was really at work here was a choice between an eventual orderly restructuring or a disorderly restructuring that could have been…