Senate Proceeding on Oct 14th, 2009 :: 1:45:05 to 1:49:00
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Byron Dorgan: the presiding officer: yes. mr. dorgan: the presiding officer: the senator from north dakota. mr. dorgan: mr. president, i think i would speak for myself and senator bennett that we very much appreciate the work the senator from oklahoma does. he does it floor a great deal, pushing his views on these issues, and on the specific issue that he just

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Speech By: Byron Dorgan

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Byron Dorgan: described is an issue which he came to the floor, w it in the bill because we believed in it, agreed with him, as did the senate, and that's what we took the senator from oklahoma weaves a bit of a larger cloud that exists by suggesting some sort

1:45:27 to 1:45:48( Edit History Discussion )

Byron Dorgan: of deep secrets tore ial approach -- conspiracy approach to prevent the public from seeing it. that isn't the case. required of department of energy should be available -- that are required, by the way, to be sent to the congress, should be available not just to the congress but to the american people as well. we agreed with that. that's why we put it in the senate bill.

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Byron Dorgan: we went to conference with the house. there was objection. the fact is this is a very big piece of if we decided, if we can't resolve an objection, can't reach agreement on everything, there won't be a conference report. there will be very few conference reports on the floor of the united states senate.

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Byron Dorgan: the conference, as my colleague from oklahoma knows and especially as my colleague from utah knows, the give-and-take is a piece of legislation that has $30 billion-plus and a wide range of issues such as nuclear weapons. this bil weapons programs, the water programs in this country from

1:46:32 to 1:46:52( Edit History Discussion )

Byron Dorgan: both the corps of engineers and the bureau of reclamation, the energy program cleaning up the nuclear waste sites; ahole series of complicated, in order to get a conference report, we had to give-and-take here and there, and there was an objection to the provision the senator from oklahoma had put in

1:46:53 to 1:47:13( Edit History Discussion )

Byron Dorgan: the senate bill. i regret that, but that was the case. and so, i will continue to support, as my colleague from utah just described, efforts to make sure all of these provided that there's no national security issue or secret clearance to these reports be made available to the american people. let me emphasize something that my colleague fro oklahoma

1:47:14 to 1:47:34( Edit History Discussion )

Byron Dorgan: described about this. aside from the fact that it does not include his amendment, which we had previously supported and still do, this conference report on energy and water is a very important conference report. we need to get our bills done on time. there is a lot of critici about not passing appropriations bills. well, we're going to pass appropriations bills this year;

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Byron Dorgan: great contrast to the year previous and the year previous to that. that's a good thing that we're passing individua appropriations bills. we endments were offered to it. that's exactly the way the process should work. and, by the way, senator bennett and i brought a bill to the floor that is slightly thes than 1% -- slightly less than 1% above last year's expenditures

1:47:57 to 1:48:17( Edit History Discussion )

Byron Dorgan: for water and energy and so on. the senator from oklahoma acknowledged at his presentation tha this bill itself, with respect to this fiscal year and fy 2010 and the responsibilities that we have is not a bill that throws a lot of money at projects. we are less than 1% above last

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Byron Dorgan: year's expenditures, and i think that's important to note. with respect to the many programs in the bill, there are many of them that are just flat funded, some slightly below fy 2009. thexception is in three areas: energy efficiency and renewable energy.

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Byron Dorgan: largely because we're trying to make sure that we move down the road more aggressively in having a lower kpwapb future and promoting efficiency and promoting ways to reduc emissions from the use of seville energy. science. -- significant dividends in the

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Byron Dorgan: future.