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Byron Dorgan: “I sat in that room--I come from a town of about 270 people, a small ranching area of Southwestern North Dakota. I sat in…”

On the recordMarch 29, 2000
I sat in that room--I come from a town of about 270 people, a small ranching area of Southwestern North Dakota. I sat in that room--the assembly room in Constitution Hall--200 years after the Constitution was written, the document that begins, ``We the people.'' In that room, George Washington's chair is still in front of the room, where he sat as he presided over the constitutional convention, and Ben Franklin sat over on this side, and there was Madison and Mason; Thomas Jefferson was in Europe, but he contributed through his writings to the Bill of Rights.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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Reflecting on the significance of the U.S. Constitution during a Senate discussion.

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