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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The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.
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I think when someone runs a $10 billion company into the ground, the last thing you do is give him a bonus. Pay is based on performance. When somebody is cooking the books and running a company into the ground, you don't give them big bonuses. That's not rocket science.
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I think it's probably inevitable that the votes are going to exist to call witnesses,
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I think this is nonnegotiable, ... You've waited too long.
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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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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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Our soldiers are prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for their country, and we must do our part. And that means voting for the funds they need to finish the job.
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I think this is a seed bed for substantial growth and opportunities in our region,
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Most likely Congress will do little or nothing but talk a great deal and hold hearings,
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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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We don't make one pair of Levi's in the United States any more. Want to wear Tony Lama Boots? You're probably wearing Chinese boots. You want to eat Fig Newton cookies? You're eating a foreign product. Didn't used to be. It's Mexican now. We are seeing a wholesale movement away from this country of things that we make, products that we produce, that used to have attached to them good jobs for Americans.
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We have four cities that produce a lot of traffic for them, and we're very dependent on Northwest, ... I want to see that the airline continues to serve us with the service we need.
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The credit goes to anybody and everybody who understood this was bad public policy,