Evan Bayh: “Any action by Congress to reduce the budget request for Defense to fund programs not requested by the administration…”

It's time now to allow men and women to serve their country and to do so without having to conceal their sexual orientation.

I had no idea until I was talking to Senator Bennet yesterday about his father's long commitment to public service.

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.

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.