Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind. told a Henrico County audience today that Sen. Barack Obama is best equipped to correct the abuses that led to the $700 billion Wall Street bailout.

"Who do you think is going to do a better job of protecting the taxpayer, putting into place the reforms, the regulation, the oversight to make sure this never happens again?" Bayh said at J.R. Tucker High School.

Bayh said Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, "wants to deregulate health care so the same thing can happen to health care that happened to the financial markets."

Bayh filled in for Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic vice presidential nominee, who canceled his appearances in Henrico and in Roanoke because of a family illness.

Bayh began his remarks by noting that Biden's mother-in-law had died today. Bonny Jean Jacobs, the mother of Biden's wife, Jill, was 78.