byron dorgan

The push is on to dilute the climate change bills moving through Congress, and it’s not coming only from conservatives. Mother Jones’ Kate Sheppard reports today that 14 Senate Democrats are urging their leadership to amend the proposal to grant more free polluting permits to the coal-burning utilities that emit the most greenhouse gases. In [...]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) vowed Tuesday that the Senate this year will consider controversial legislation allowing Americans to buy their prescription drugs from abroad, where they sell for much less than they do domestically.
In a Sept. 22 letter to Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), Reid promised that [...]

Nuclear power courts new friends as it pushes for subsidies in the Senate’s sweeping climate bill.

The Republican National Committee’s new ad — running in Arkansas, Nevada, and North Dakota — isn’t all that subtle. The Freudian takeaway words and images: Children, debt, “risky experiments.”
Why those three states? There are three Senate races between them in 2010.

Sens. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) just shot out a statement reacting to the recent deal cut between the White House and the pharmaceutical industry to trim prescription drug costs for millions of Medicare patients. Here’s a hint: They’re not terribly impressed.
“Even with PhRMA’s offer to help seniors,” says Dorgan, “American consumers will [...]

Following up on Spencer’s post, Human Rights Watch isn’t the only voice expressing concerns that the Obama administration’s new Cuba travel policy doesn’t go far enough. Here’s the statement moments ago from Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D), a long-time sponsor of legislation to lift the ban on Americans traveling to Cuba.
[M]ore needs to be done. We [...]

In November of 1999, when the Senate voted overwhelmingly to approve legislation deregulating the finance industry, The New York Times described part of the debate like this:
The opponents of the measure gloomily predicted that by unshackling banks and enabling them to move more freely into new kinds of financial activities, the new law could lead [...]

Something strange has happened to Senate Democrats.
Just a few weeks ago, few showed any interest in taking up House-passed legislation that would rein in executive pay for companies that accepted cash under the Troubled Assets Relief Program. Instead, party leaders said they’d trust the new administration to spend the TARP funds wisely.
Today, in the few [...]

Want to lower your taxes and maybe get a bailout?
Incorporate.
The Government Accountability Office released a report today indicating that 83 of the 100 largest U.S. corporations — including many that are benefiting from Washington’s many taxpayer-funded bailouts — operate subsidiaries in countries known to be tax havens. Additionally, 63 of the 100 largest publicly-traded federal [...]

Remember that GAO report from a few weeks back revealing that: 1) Iraq’s oil revenue surplus could reach $50 billion this year and 2) roughly $10 billion of the $43 billion Washington has appropriated for Iraq reconstruction remains unspent?
Well, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) wants the money back. And this week he introduced legislation to do [...]