Evan Bayh: “At a time when ordinary people are having to cut back, should not Congress exert a little restraint?”

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…

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…

We have been hoping that this clearing process would take place, that we would get footing under the real estate sector.

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.