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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Most likely Congress will do little or nothing but talk a great deal and hold hearings,
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Retaliation against employees for providing information to Congress is illegal and entirely unacceptable.
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Consumers need relief from high energy prices. Talk is cheap. The price of energy is not. Congress needs to act.
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Congress is going to slap on the penalties unless you and commissioner Selig do it first.
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Everyone expects American businesses to make a profit and I don't begrudge them that, ... But the big oil companies are now reaping an unbelievable windfall, and it's time for Congress to help consumers.
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It's very important for Congress to be able to do its work, to fully investigate what has happened here, for us to have information about all of these partnerships,
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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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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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The same folks who today defend high gasoline prices as the product of a free market said exactly the same thing about energy prices in the West when we now know ... Enron was manipulating the market at full throttle and reaping billions in profits.
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I've always understood that appointments to the Supreme Court were for a lifetime, but an appointment to be independent counsel is not. It's time for this to end.
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Complaints that the selection process was inadequate are significant and come from people in a position to know the facts, ... I think such an investigation is not only appropriate but very much needed.
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There's nothing normal or fair about any of these methods.
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I think this is a seed bed for substantial growth and opportunities in our region,
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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,