Evan Bayh: “I am confident of the Secretary's interest in this issue, as well, and his good faith efforts.”

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.

Only Congress could come up with a situation like this where you have to give your recommendations about implementation of the rule.

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…

And the more protracted this foreclosure problem, the more that delays recovery.