Evan Bayh: “Providence, Rhode Island, has been a great story that has happened, not many years ago a place that was in real trouble.”

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 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…

I rise today to honor the life of SFC Barry Edward Jarvis of the U.S. Army and Tell City, IN. Sergeant Jarvis was assigned to the 1st Squadron of the 61st Cavalry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, KY. He was 36 years old…

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