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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They are ... profiting in an extraordinary way at the expense of the American consumer.
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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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This is a very positive step for our farmers and ranchers who are coping with losses from weather-related disasters.
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Northwest is not a philanthropic organization - it has its own interests,
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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 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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I think it's appropriate at this point for Al Gore ... to give a speech tonight, to give a speech tonight that is a concession speech,
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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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If the allegations brought forward by the whistleblowers are correct, they represent both a security threat and a waste of taxpayer dollars. It would be ironic, to say the least, if DHS were unable to secure its own headquarters.
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If the allegations brought forward by the whistle-blowers are correct, they represent both a security threat and a waste of taxpayer dollars.
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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.