Byron Dorgan: “I further ask the Senator, isn't it the case that at the start of this year we heard all of this talk about, ``this is a…”

“I further ask the Senator, isn't it the case that at the start of this year we heard all of this talk about, ``this is a new day, a new approach; we are all going to work together, have a great deal of bipartisanship; we are not going to do things like we used to do them''? Isn't it the case that when you have a 50/50 Senate and you have a Budget Committee that is 50/50, equal membership on each side, and then you have a conference but only one side is invited to the conference, that that somehow sounds like the old way, sounds like the partisanship we used to see? Would the Senator from North Dakota agree with that?”