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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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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You know, I come from a rural state, I grew up around guns, ... As a teenager I had a rifle and shotgun, so ...
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The proposal is to have a presentation of the evidence by the House managers, have a presentation by the White House, and then have a vote to determine if these instances were born out by the facts, do they rise to the level of impeachment?
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We don't have a solution for Bismarck and Grand Forks, but we have the attention of the president of the company,
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Tomlinson's legacy at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a negative one, ... He has done far more harm to the CPB than good.
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This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest.
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There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.
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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.
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We spin around the Sun with 6 billion of us and somehow through divine providence we landed right here right now.
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There is no evidence that we ever get tough with anybody, no matter the circumstances, because most of our trade policy is mushy-headed, foreign policy rather than sound, sensible economic policy.
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I don't know whether Ken Lay is going to testify. What I do know is that his attorneys have told us that we should prepare for a hearing in which he will testify,
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Frankly, I don't think his next-year's budget adds up,
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We have a constitutional responsibility to use our heads, our hearts and our minds to make good decisions about the future of this country.
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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,