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 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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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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We need this because I believe the current profits are the highest they have ever been, and at the same time the oil companies are accumulating all this gain, there is a lot of pain for consumers,
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I know of no concessions (the Chinese) have owned up to.
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His attorneys have told us we should prepare for a hearing in which he would testify,
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In a small state like ours it's important to have the ability to work together,
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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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How could regulators have sat by? ... Were they or asleep or brain dead?
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I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.
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If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.
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Is there decency left in American politics?
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The taxpayers deserve accountability.
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President Eisenhower saw it coming, and it is here. Patriotism no longer exists among many of these corporations. Some companies have more economic clout than entire countries. They can make or break a politician.