last thing before we go tonight is the death of a legislative giant of the last century. birch bayh was a liberal democrat from the conservative state of louisiana. he rose through a farming family. u.s. army and then eventually law school. years later after three terms in the u.s. senate, he was taken down by the conservative reagan wave of 1980. beaten by a young upstart named dan quayle. but while birch bayh was in the senate, starting with his arrival in 1963, he left a mark. he was the author of title ix, the land mark federal legislation that outlawed gender discrimination in schools receiving federal funds. it changed the face of women's athletics by forcing schools to provide equal resources. he was the only person since our founding fathers to author two