• U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) speaks at a press conference on bipartisan legislation he introduced that will reduce the cost of prescription drugs in the United States.
  • U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) addresses the graduating class of 2007 at a commencement ceremony at United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck.
  • U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) calls on the President Wednesday to support an agriculture disaster package for family farmers and ranchers at a press conference at a farmers’ market near the U.S. Capitol.
  • U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) breaks ground at the Energy and Environmental Research Center’s (EERC) National Center for Hydrogen Technology, which he helped create to bolster the EERC’s research into the fuel he believes will help lead America to energy independence.
  • U.S. Senators Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad and Congressman Earl Pomeroy present an American flag that was flown over the U.S. Capitol to the Bismarck Century High School band and choir. The Century students traveled to Washington, D.C., and the delegation organized a concert on the U.S. Capitol grounds
  • U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) presented John Schreiner, Jr. of Cogswell, North Dakota, with a Bronze Star Medal for his distinguished service in World War II. The award ceremony was held on October 9, 2006 in Fargo, North Dakota. Schreiner was joined by his three brothers, two grandsons and five of his children. “I am pleased to have presented John with one of our nation’s highest military honors, the Bronze Star Medal, for his dedication and service to our country,” said Dorgan.
  • U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) calls for Congressional action to relieve the burden of rising fuel prices facing consumers at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol.
  • U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) meets with astronauts who spent five-and-a-half months on the International Space Station, including the time period when U.S. Space Shuttle Columbia was lost.
  • U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) has led the fight in the Senate to allow the importation of safe, lower-priced prescription drugs from Canada.
  • U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) meeting with Margaret Spellings, the nominee for Secretary of Education at the time.
  • U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) drives a Bobcat at the Ingersoll-Rand Co. plant.
  • U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (right), along with U.S. Senator Kent Conrad (left) and Congressman Earl Pomeroy (center) continue to fight in Congress to pass an agriculture disaster bill that would help North Dakota farmers who experienced crop loss and prevented planting due to weather-related disasters in 2005.
  • U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan takes a ride in a fuel-cell hydrogen powered vehicle, a technology he has supported vigorously as a step toward “lessening our dangerous dependence on foreign oil.”
  • Joel Heitkamp, host of KFGO’s “News and Views” radio program, interviews U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) from the floor of the Marketplace for Entrepreneurs conference in Bismarck.
  • U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) questions panelists at a field hearing he convened in Bismarck on the problem of teen suicide on Indian reservations. The hearing was the first-ever Senate hearing on the subject.
  • U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) listens to an assessment of the Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge’s quirky pelican population by Martha Sovada, a biologist at the U.S. Geological Survey. He is joined by the chief of the National Wildlife Refuge System, William Hartwig (left).
  • U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) greets members of the military who fly and maintain the tankers at the Minot Air Force Base.
  • U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) takes a close look at the energy resources that exist in North Dakota – corn for conversion to ethanol and the wind turbines in the background. He is joined by Tom Mund (left) and Ron Kinzler (right) of the Dakota Valley Electric Cooperative.
  • introducing the New Homestead Act and creating the Red River Valley Research Corridor.
  • U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito pause for photos before a meeting in Dorgan’s Capitol Hill office.
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