Evan Bayh: “We need more than just kind of a vague assertion that, 'Don't worry. Trust us, it'll be taken care of.'”

I would like to thank all of our witnesses today for your contributions.

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.

We need to be realistic about that.

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…