Byron Dorgan: “5 years ago today, our colleague Paul Wellstone and his wife Sheila Wellstone were killed in a plane crash in northern…”

“5 years ago today, our colleague Paul Wellstone and his wife Sheila Wellstone were killed in a plane crash in northern Minnesota. It hardly seems like 5 years. I remember that morning I was on the road driving in a van to Grand Forks, ND, going to a meeting when I received a call that an airplane had gone down in northern Minnesota and it was the plane that Paul and his wife Sheila and some staff were on. They feared that the crash had taken their lives. I was thinking as I was coming over here today that the day Paul and Sheila were killed was very much like today--a gray day with rain and moisture. Paul and his wife were on a plane flying to a funeral in northern Minnesota. They lost their lives. They were in the final stages of a very aggressive Senate campaign, one I believe Paul would have won. I believe he would have retained his seat in the Senate. He cared deeply about his opportunities, his privilege, and his obligation as a Senator.”