Byron Dorgan
Byron Dorgan
Byron Leslie Dorganis a former United States Senator and United States Congressman from North Dakota and currently serves as a senior policy advisor for the Washington, DC law firm Arent Fox LLP. He served 12 years in the U.S. House and 18 years in the Senate. He was a member of the Senate Democratic leadership for 16 years, first as Assistant Democratic Floor Leader and then as Chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee and Chairman of the Committee on Indian...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 May 1942
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Not only are the trade agreements we're negotiating around the world not turning things around, they are making things much worse,
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In fact, not only did NAFTA fail to create U.S. jobs, it lost them. Increased trade deficits with our NAFTA trading partners (Mexico and Canada) have so far cost the United States 377,000 jobs - approximately the number of new U.S. jobs its backers promised NAFTA would create.
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It is not taking a vote before we've heard the evidence.
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I think there was a massive waste of taxpayer money, ... stories about money being delivered in paper bags -- cash -- millions of dollars of cash being delivered in bags.
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This is non-negotiable at this point. You waited too long.
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This is a very positive step for our farmers and ranchers who are coping with losses from weather-related disasters.
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They didn't have the stomach to take the White House on.
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There's nothing normal or fair about any of these methods.
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The same folks who today defend high gasoline prices as the product of a free market said exactly the same thing about energy prices in the West when we now know ... Enron was manipulating the market at full throttle and reaping billions in profits.
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His attorneys have told us we should prepare for a hearing in which he would testify,
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I've always understood that appointments to the Supreme Court were for a lifetime, but an appointment to be independent counsel is not. It's time for this to end.
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I know of no concessions (the Chinese) have owned up to.
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This partnership borrowed over $110 million from a Canadian bank and that showed up booked as income to the company immediately, ... They were doing almost no business, but they manufactured income from a bank loan under their operative statement. That's the kind of thing that went on over and over and over again, shrouded in secrecy.
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For the Fed to put its foot on the brakes to slow the economy down will hurt everyone in this country,