Evan Bayh: “I want to begin by thanking Chairman Dodd of the Banking Committee as a whole and his hard-working staff for their…”

There's something fundamentally wrong about that. If we can pursue our Nation's security without putting them or us as a country institutionalizing hypocrisy, I think America is stronger, we are a more just and secure country.

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

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.

We are paying a macroeconomic price for the delay in resolving this issue.