Byron Dorgan

The Center for New Growth and Economic Development will work with Turtle Mountain Community College to develop a curriculum on ``windsmithing'' so that others can learn the trade of wind energy. The Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation is…

I am also interested in making sure there is something in the box before it is locked. We have $1.3 trillion in tax cut proposals around here for surpluses that don't yet exist.

I think there are a lot of wonderful things going on in this country. All of us should count our blessings that we live in a country that is doing so well. The economy is growing, growing rapidly; we have unprecedented economic growth and…

We are headed toward an election. That will affect the Senate schedule. That means it is likely the Senate will complete its work, the Congress will complete its work, in the 106th Congress by the middle of October. As we look to that…

I thought it would be interesting to describe what the agenda should have been and what we have done. I will talk about some of the issues with which most Americans believe the Congress should be dealing: Common sense gun safety. For those…

We have an agricultural disaster, not with respect to the collapse of commodity prices but with respect to floods and drought that have destroyed a significant number of crops in various parts of our country. If I might, with my…

It is not my intention to have the American people go to another country for their prescription drugs. It is my intention to force the pharmaceutical industry to reprice their drugs here in the United States. If our pharmacists and our…

Drug benefit costs for large employers are expected to jump 22.5 percent for employees and 23.4 percent for retirees over the next year... Congress is about to permit the wholesale importation of drugs from Mexico and Canada. The personal…

I specifically want to draw attention to one area in which I think that there is great potential--lignite energy development. In my state of North Dakota, the lignite industry provides a low-cost, reliable energy source for more than 2…

I believe we ought to enact a generous exemption for family farms and small businesses so that no family farms or small businesses will be caught in the web of an estate tax. It is not as if this is a riveting debate, of course. The estate…

I happen to believe we ought to change the estate tax to provide a significant exemption so that no small business and no family farm gets caught in the estate tax. I don't want people to try to leave the family farm or the small business…

I want to make it clear that funding to assure the timely and accurate processing of Medicare claims also is a high priority for me and the beneficiaries in my state. I am concerned that HCFA projects a 3.5 percent increase in claims…

Life-saving miracle drugs can only perform miracles for those who can afford them. Senior citizens all too often are choosing between groceries and the prescription drugs they need. If we were to create the Medicare program today…

I mean, 40 years of embargo with respect to Cuba, speaking only now of Cuba, ought to tell us that when a policy doesn't work, you should change the policy--especially that portion of the policy that deals with food and medicine. It is…

It certainly is, and it is a tax that was not a part of any public discussion and imposed in a room with the doors locked.

I sure am. The GAO reported about the disrepair of schools, on Indian reservations, in inner cities, all across the country. You go to poor school districts that don't have a large tax base, and you find that we are sending kids into…

When we deal with legislation on the floor of the Senate, everyone here has a right, it seems to me, to come and offer amendments and have a debate on them. You have just filed two cloture motions to shut off debate on a filibuster that…

I say the reason there is a substantial amount of anxiety building up in this Senate is that people were not elected from various States to say: Go and do your thing in the Senate under the rules, and, by the way, we would like the…

I think the price of fuel in this country is a pretty tough pill for the American people to swallow. What has happened is the price of gasoline has spiked up. It is not because the free market has caused that. It is because we have a…

I sat in that room--I come from a town of about 270 people, a small ranching area of Southwestern North Dakota. I sat in that room--the assembly room in Constitution Hall--200 years after the Constitution was written, the document that…

I should mention also, about the trip to Canada, the Customs folks will allow you to bring a small amount of prescription drugs back across the border for personal use.

It is almost unthinkable what has happened, especially in Africa, with respect to the subject of AIDS. AIDS is a scourge, a plague that is affecting the entire world. It is the first plague since the bubonic plague for which there is no…

The reason this is an important issue, if I can respond to the Senator from Nevada, is because we have the majority party running television ads across the country at the moment.

The year 2012 was not put in writing. We said that doesn't make any sense. They have two stages of denial. First, we are not using Social Security, they said. Second, if we are, we will stop by 2012. Then they said: If you don't buy 2012…

I believe strongly this country has a moral responsibility in the world to lead on the question of the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.