Byron Dorgan

This bill is the Homeland Security Appropriations bill which provides the kinds of protections that we need for the threats and attacks against our homeland. When I describe what the National Intelligence Estimate last week said was the…

That is addressed by the issue of aviation security. That threat may come from someone nailing themselves into a container with food and telephones and a heater----

It means if the most serious threat to our country exists from a terrorist organization that has rebuilt and regenerated its capability to attack us in our homeland--and that is what our National Intelligence Estimate tells us--it means…

The microcredit approach has been unbelievably successful, giving poor people the opportunity to buy needles for crocheting and bicycles for delivery services in various parts of the world. This approach allows a student who has no…

I understand, and have always understood, it is far easier, when making a case, to make the negative side than the positive side. I understand, and have always understood, it is easier to recognize failure than it is to recognize success…

I think, you know, the scandal of tainted pet food is going to move us in this direction because finally I think people say, you know, this is not just some academic debate. Country of Origin Labeling, understanding where the meat you…

I think, you know, the scandal of tainted pet food is going to move us in this direction because finally I think people say, you know, this is not just some academic debate. Country of Origin Labeling, understanding where the meat you…

I must say, however, that I think what we have on the floor of the Senate, perhaps with some amendments, is a significant change with respect to an issue that we should address; that is, energy. Let me talk about the automobile efficiency…

Well, where is the illegal immigration going to come from if you have secured the border? If you have not secured the border, isn't it the case that what you have simply done is said we are going to have 400,000 people come across the…

Let me say that with all the budget talk, we went to war a few years ago and we sent soldiers halfway around the world to go to war. The country didn't go to war. This Congress didn't go to war. Every single dollar we have used to fight…

But when he says, ``This is your money,'' should he not also, when you hold up that chart, say to the American people: This is your debt? Isn't it the case that in the years in which they ratcheted up that debt by spending money and not…

I would observe that the discussion I just had about the Enron Corporation--I think the largest financial supporter of the current occupant of the White House for his first run for the Presidency--it was a corporation that had hundreds of…

Might I point out, the second-degree amendment is language taken out of the Dorgan-Snowe bill that we filed months and months ago. It is identical language with respect to counterfeit-resistant technology. It is not new language.

Might I ask the question, are you moving in your committee toward requiring a pedigree and serial numbers? Is that where you are going to move in committee to have consensus? That is what I understand.

I suggested two additions to the managers' package that I hope will be considered. One is country-of-origin labeling with respect to prescription drugs: Any prescription drug dispensed in the United States shall affix on each dispenser or…

It is the case with this advertising that if you take this purple drug, you know, you will be riding in a convertible, perhaps through a beautiful meadow, where the Sun is shining and the birds are singing and life is wonderful. Why…

I do want to make one point. The Senator from Mississippi indicated the amendment I have offered would allow for the reimportation of drugs that are not FDA approved. I don't know where that information comes from, but it is demonstrably…

I do want to say what he said to me after he left Health and Human Services. I met him in the elevator outside the Senate Chamber one day after he left being Secretary. He said: By the way, Byron, you keep working on the imported drug…

The continued and insistent reference to this amendment posing safety risks, or risks of unsafe prescription drugs, is at odds with everything we know to be the case. I described Dr. David Kessler, and I suggested if anybody knows a more…

My expectation is, he would think this would be a serious and thoughtful amendment that he disagrees strongly with, but I hope he would not suggest the motive is politics. CBO has suggested this bill will save $50 billion for the American…

The fact is, the American consumers are charged the highest prices for prescription drugs anywhere in the world. The highest prices for prescription drugs are charged to the American consumer. It is not right. It is not fair. It ought to…

I wish to talk about that testimony. The Armed Services Committee, under the chairmanship of Senator Carl Levin, is holding a hearing this morning on contracting abuses; that is, contracting abuses in Iraq especially under what is called…

I think in 1945 had someone said, 'You know what? We're going to build thousands of additional nuclear weapons, thousands of them, and by the way, in the next 62 years, none will be used in anger, that's going to require some unbelievably…

These are--as I indicated when I started--very complicated issues. And I have tried very hard to meet with a lot of people, study these issues, try to understand these issues in recent months.

Senator Domenici, I think what we will do is arrange a classified briefing and invite members of the subcommittee to it.