Byron Dorgan: “So they go home and say, I lost my job. This economy is not working. This economy is contracting, not expanding. Should…”

“So they go home and say, I lost my job. This economy is not working. This economy is contracting, not expanding. Should we do something about that? Sure, we ought to be working on that. We have homeland security issues. We have appropriations bills. We have a lot of work to do, so let's resolve this. The simplest possible way to resolve it is for the majority leader to understand he ought to use the same formula for this Congress as the Democrats used when they were in control in the last Congress. It seems to me that is the fair way to do it, and it seems to me it ought to be done this afternoon. Most people would look at this and say this is silly, just do this and get it done now.”