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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I think this Congress has to stand up for the interest of the American consumer, ... This is about as far from a free market as anything I know.
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Northwest is not a philanthropic organization - it has its own interests,
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These are the kinds of companies that want all the benefits of American citizenship and all the benefits from doing business with the federal government, but they don't want to bare the burden of the responsibilities of paying taxes to our government,
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I think this is a seed bed for substantial growth and opportunities in our region,
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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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We simply must ensure accountability for these massive expenditures -- so that these dollars don't just wind up lining the pockets of unscrupulous contractors, as we've seen all too often in Iraq,
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This relates to a massive number of American jobs and American enterprise being shipped overseas in circumstances of trade that are fundamentally unfair because that is the way China wants it.
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When you juxtapose what happened to the people at the top and what happened to the people at the bottom it makes you sick.
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The taxpayers deserve accountability.
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One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle.
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This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.
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We are telling a guy who fought for freedom that he doesn't have the freedom to see a sick child.
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Very few people know anything about this nominee's views about a wide range of subjects, ... This is a very important seat because it's a swing vote.