Senator Byron Dorgan

Democrat  •  North Dakota  •  10th Term  •  Sworn In 1981
Current Term 2005 - 2010 View All
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04/21/07
Congress Discusses KBR Abuse Charges

Congress Discusses KBR Abuse Charges posted by anthony @ 18:48 BST By DONNA BORAK AP Business Writer The Associated Press April 19, 2007, 3:44PM WASHINGTON — U.S. lawmakers on Thursday railed against senior Army officials and defense contractor

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04/21/07
Follow The Money

Follow The Money April 21st, 2007 “Profiteering during wartime is inexcusable,” said Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan, testifying at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. “This is the most significant waste, fraud and abuse we have ever seen in t

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04/21/07
Lawmakers Rail Against Halliburton Unit for Alleged Abuses

Lawmakers Rail Against Halliburton Unit for Alleged Abuses truthout.org: Washington - U.S. lawmakers on Thursday railed against senior Army officials and defense contractor KBR Inc. over persistent allegations of fraud and contract abuse on a multibill

04/21/07
US SENATOR BYRON DORGAN (D-ND) US SENATOR BYRON DORGAN (D-ND ...

00-00-0000 NEWS CONFERENCE REGARDING THE TRADE DEFICIT REVIEW COMMISSION REPORT Elapsed Time 00:00, Eastern Time 13:06 SPEAKERS: US Senator BYRON DORGAN (D-ND) US REPRESENTATIVE PETER DEFAZIO (D-OR) DORGAN: As some of you know, ...

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04/21/07
Congress Examines $2B KBR Fraud

"Profiteering during wartime is inexcusable," said Sen. Byron Dorgan, DN.D., testifying at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. "This is the most significant waste, fraud and abuse we have ever seen in this country." ...

04/20/07
Lawmakers Rail Against Halliburton Unit for Alleged Abuses

Lawmakers Rail Against Halliburton Unit for Alleged Abuses Submitted by Gordon on Fri, 04/20/2007 - 4:01pm. :: Anti War LINKS By Donna Borak - nThe Associated Press Washington - U.S. lawmakers on Thursday railed against senior Army officials and defens

04/20/07
Is Treason, During War-time, Still A Hanging Offense

WASHINGTON: U.S. lawmakers on Thursday railed against senior U.S. Army officials and defense contractor KBR Inc. over persistent allegations of fraud and contract abuse on a multibillion-dollar deal to provide food and shelter to American troops in Iraq.

04/20/07
Iraq Contracts

"Profiteering during wartime is inexcusable," said Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan, testifying at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. "This is the most significant waste, fraud and abuse we have ever seen in this country." ...

04/20/07
[fraud and abuse] former halliburton unit on the ropes

"I think profiteering during wartime is inexcusable," said Sen. Byron Dorgan, DN.D., during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. "We've got a very serious problem. This is the most significant waste, fraud and abuse we have ever ..

04/20/07
The case of $2 billion of fraud/abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan

“I think profiteering during wartime is inexcusable,” said Sen. Byron Dorgan, DN.D., during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. “We've got a very serious problem. This is the most significant waste, fraud and abuse we have ever ...

04/20/07
Lawmakers Rail Against KBR

... abuse on a multibillion-dollar deal to provide food and shelter to American troops in Iraq. "Profiteering during wartime is inexcusable," said Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan, testifying at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. "

04/19/07
Congress rails against KBR, former Halliburton unit, for fraud and ...

"I think profiteering during wartime is inexcusable," said Sen. Byron Dorgan, DN.D., during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. "We've got a very serious problem. This is the most significant waste, fraud and abuse we have ever ..

04/19/07
US lawmakers rail against KBR, former Halliburton unit, for ...

... fraud and contract abuse on a multibillion-dollar deal to provide food and shelter to American troops in Iraq."This is the most significant waste, fraud and abuse we have ever seen in this country."said Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan.

04/19/07
US Congress rails against KBR, former Halliburton unit, for fraud ...

IHT: “I think profiteering during wartime is inexcusable,” said Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan, during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. “We’ve got a very serious problem. This is the most significant waste, fraud and abuse we ...

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04/19/07
Byron Dorgan Uses Hearing To Rail Against Free Trade, Pimp His Book

One of the witnesses was fellow protectionist Sen. Sherrod ”Hawley” Brown (D-OH). Luckily they were offset by trade expert and NAM alum Christoper Wenk who actually was armed with the facts, showing that trade agreements create jobs for ...

04/18/07
Commerce Committee Considers SIRIUS-XM Merger

The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, chaired by Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), held a hearing yesterday to discuss the proposed merger between satellite radio providers SIRIUS Satellite Radio and XM. Speaking to the committee, SIRIUS' CEO Mel Karmazin argue

04/18/07
Senate Republicans filibuster prescription drug bill

UPDATE: Sen. Byron Dorgan's speaking now about "cloture petitions" that Democrats are needing to file to debate anything at all, needing to vote on motions to proceed to debate anything at all. Senate Republicans mean to shut down the ...

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04/17/07
Two tribal colleges left behind by President Bush

..> ^Red Tree Woman^ Date: Apr 17, 2007 1:46 PM Subject Two tribal colleges left behind by President Bush Body: Two tribal colleges whose budgets have been repeatedly cut by the Bush administration have finally found a political solution to their

04/17/07
Dorgan Sponsors Bill to Increase Nation’s Energy Efficiency

Via a news release from Sen. Dorgan's office... (WASHINGTON, DC) --- US Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and a bi-partisan group of senior members of the Senate, including the top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Energy Committee, ...

04/16/07
Wednesday, April 18, 2007

The Good...The Bad...The Ugly of the Week... The Good It's good to see coaches and general managers get rewarded like Carolina Hurricanes GM Jim Rutherford who received a 5-year contract extension. Rutherford just completed another season as the only GM i

04/16/07
Malfeasance In Government

Folks like Sen. Patty Murray and Sen. Byron Dorgan were asking about what seems to me to be basic services the armed forces ought to be providing to Guardsmen - basic services and care that you would assume the biggest military in the ...

04/15/07
Schools near their wish: Easier tax levies

Schools near their wish: Easier tax levies MSNBC - OLYMPIA - Legislators ended their fighting Thursday, and now voters will decide in November whether to make it easier to pass school levies. The state Senate voted 33-16 to approve a constitutional amendme

04/15/07
Pay As You Go?

Liberal North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan, who heads up the budget committee in the senate, is joining Representative Rangel in this push. While the national “news” media is focused upon Al Sharpton’s take on the Don Imus firing or the ...

04/15/07
Letter: Tax cheats head to the Caymans

According to Sen. Byron Dorgan, DN.D., 12748 American corporations, many of them federal contractors, use the same small building in the Cayman Islands as their official mailing address to avoid paying taxes in the United States. ...

04/13/07
Senate "Cells" Out

From an e-mail I received from the Family Research Council :(www.frc.org) (I added bold fonts and italics where I thought appropriate.) Senate 'Cells' Out Despite a series of announcements over the last two weeks indicating that adult stem cells have s

04/13/07
My kind of Democrat

The party of Kennedy still has honorable members. I painted the Dems in a pretty bad light last post, I'm not to pleased by the conduct of the party and party leadership. The good news is that it's not all bad. Senator Joe Biden of Delaware: "If [the a

04/12/07
News from headquarters

Sen. Byron Dorgan will be a guest on CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" at 5 pm He'll discuss US trade policy. Also, I received an email from the Democratic National Committee the other day outlining achievements by the new Democratic-led ...

04/12/07
NEW HOMESTEAD ACT SEEKS TO STEM POPULATION LOSS IN RURAL AREAS

IN RURAL AREAS (WASHINGTON, DC) --- US Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) introduced legislation Thursday to ... by Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), and Senators Tim Johnson (D-SD), Sam Brownback (R-KS), Dick Durbin (D-IL), ...

04/10/07
The True State of our Economy

For your reading pleasure today, here are three articles that tell the state of our economy as a whole. http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2007/04/05/news/state/131476.txt This first one is about a company named Paladin Brands and their decision to

04/10/07
Senator Dorgan and Kent Hrbek Successes

Krbek, former Twins great, signed 2/2 cards c/o home. Senator Byron Dorgan, ND, signed c/o office.

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Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-2551
Fax: 202-224-1193

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