Byron Dorgan

Former Senator Dorgan referred to these offices as one-stop shops.

I look in my daughter's eyes and she asks me the question: Am I going to be the one or the three, Mom?

I came to the Senate in 2000 to plead for a change in the law.

I believe its basic purpose is threefold.

The Act's passage last year took many people by surprise, not only among the usual Beltway skeptics here in Washington, DC but across Indian Country.

Taking thousands of people, maybe tens of thousands of people off government assistance and giving them hope is the way to go.

We are building a town on our reservation that Senator Johanns referred to.

If we were to go backwards, it wouldn't save the government a penny.

The reason I took the time to talk about the economic environment we live in, because that economic environment still exists.

Hoping for an amendment to make disciplinary proceedings public.

Let me make a point that I think is so important for the record. I hope it is not now or ever considered a source of weakness for this country to aspire to have a planet with fewer nuclear weapons. It ought to be a source of strength that…

It is very important going forward that we all understand what not only this administration but the previous administration has proposed with respect to modernization. I agree with my colleague from Kentucky. It is encouraging, at the end…

So it is not that we are not passing a tax cut for everyone, we are passing a tax cut for every person in America. We are just saying, maybe on that second million, we might ought to take that $300 billion and put it in deficit reduction…

I think most passengers would choose the latter by far.

It's a race between offense and defense.

I assume terrorists would look for the weakest link to enter the system.

Mr. Chairman, we commend you for holding this important hearing.

That to me is failure.

I think Mr. Pistole when he was here indicated that the programming and the technology would be usable on the existing frame of the imaging systems they now have.

We understand that we have standards here that we expect to be implemented across the country in a similar fashion.

I hope that my colleagues in the Senate--I know I speak for Senator Rockefeller--would join us in working seriously to try, even at this late date, to get the FAA reauthorization bill completed.

The October cargo plot represents an evolution of the threat beyond passenger planes to cargo.

It's completed by this committee, but we have not yet had completion of a conference report and get it to the President for signature.

I look forward to working with you to see that the amendments to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistant Tribal Self-Governance Act, which is of great importance to Indian Country, are soon enacted into law.

The Indian Self-Determination Act I think has been one of the most important pieces of legislation for tribes and for tribal sovereignty.