Evan Bayh: “I think we would all agree that we have a strong interest in avoiding that.”

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

If they become significantly affected by this, does that present a systemic risk of some kind?

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.

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.