Byron Dorgan

We obviously need to be graduating more than 80 a year.

Congratulations on your selection for the head of the BIA.

I have a lot of confidence in you. So I look forward to working with you on that common sense solution.

I appreciate the testimony, and I think we would very much like to get some reports back from you about your inventory, parts inventory, auto inventory.

The dealers have said quite the opposite, quite the contrary. It seems to me, to the automobile manufacturers, you don't have a business without dealers.

If they do take our franchise, can they--can they and will they give us first option, if they decide to open up in that area again?

I am wondering who is making the decisions in this country about who is too big to fail and who is too small to matter?

What about customers in rural states? ... they will get in their pickup trucks and their cars and drive a three-hour round trip to get service.

We have had testimony from some laboratory directors about the substantial increased cost of the contracts to supervise these laboratories.

Given what has happened in the world in recent days, weeks, months, it seems to me that the issue of nuclear non-proliferation is unbelievably important.

Considering the age of the stockpile and non-proliferation treaties, do you think keeping the LANSCE facility operating in the future will be important for the country?

Well, at this point, we are not talking about the Reliable Replacement Weapon, or the RRW program, but we are talking about stockpile stewardship, which I understand is increasingly reliant on science.

Bad ideas have unlimited shelf life here in the Nation's capital, and also that bad ideas are bipartisan.

The cloture vote just started, just an observation.

But pure fusion consumes its waste, doesn't it?

Chairman Rockefeller and Senator Dorgan played key roles in obtaining this new rulemaking authority for the FTC.

Let me just say that that issue exists all across the country on flood control projects, and the key, from the Corps' standpoint, and it makes perfect sense, of course, is that when you develop a cost-benefit ratio, you are talking about…

We are not able to ask every question in this circumstance, but we appreciate the cooperation of the witnesses.

That is why we solicited them to go ahead with this comprehensive study.

Permanent flood protection for the Fargo Moorhead metropolitan area is critical.

We will go with September, sir.

The only one that would meet a test and go forward would be the levee option?

We must recognize the tremendous risk and cost associated with every year that passes without protection in place.

The levee option would then represent the only option that would meet the Federal cost-benefit ratio test.

We have before us a historic opportunity and an obligation to future generations to work together as communities to solve this daunting, but solvable problem.