News Photos
The following news photographs are released for use by news organizations in North Dakota and elsewhere. If you have questions, need more information, or have a specific request, please contact Senator Dorgan’s Press Office at 202-224-2551.
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05/05/09
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) makes a point during a meeting on Capitol Hill aimed at trying to develop a consensus among state and local officials about what kind of flood control project they would like the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to construct for the Fargo-Moorhead area. Dorgan convened the meeting to discuss flood control with federal, state and local officials from North Dakota and Minnesota, including (l-r) Moorhead Mayor Mark Voxland, Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker, Senator Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and Fargo Deputy Mayor Tim Mahoney.
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04/25/09
(NEW TOWN, N.D.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar listen to department Director of Energy and Economic Development Robert Middleton talk about energy activity on the Fort Berthold Reservation. The meeting took place in the reservation's energy development "one-stop shop," which was started earlier this year by the Interior Department at the urging of North Dakota's Congressional delegation. It's aimed at helping cut through a bureaucratic 49-step process that was hindering petroleum exploration on the reservation. The office's manager, Jeff Hunt, is in the background.
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03/27/09
(FARGO, N.D.) --- During an emergency Fargo City Commission meeting, U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) assures city leaders that federal assistance is on the way to help with flood-related efforts. Dorgan chairs the Senate's Energy and Water Appropriations panel which funds the Army Corps of Engineers. City Commissioner Dr. Tim Mahoney is sitting next to the Senator.
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03/14/09
(FARGO, N.D.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) speaks to a group of officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Weather Service and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at a meeting he called to prepare for the possibility of major spring flooding in the southern Red River Valley. Congressman Earl Pomeroy, Governor John Hoeven and many other state and local officials also attended the event. Later in the day, Dorgan held a similar meeting in Grand Forks, N.D.
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03/03/09
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) makes a point at a press conference announcing legislation he is introducing with Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) that would establish a Senate Select committee to investigate the causes of the current financial crisis and make recommendations to ensure that a crisis of this magnitude does not happen again. Dorgan and McCain believe that with more than $9 trillion in taxpayer money being committed, pledged or loaned so far to try to fix the financial crisis, it is absolutely imperative that the crisis be investigated to learn how the country got to this point and how to restructure the system to prevent it from happening in the future.
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01/06/09
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) meets with Interior Secretary nominee Ken Salazar in Dorgan’s Capitol Hill office. Dorgan urged Salazar, who will oversee the National Park Service if he is confirmed to the post, to pursue the use of qualified volunteers to thin the elk herd at Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Dorgan also pressed Salazar to help establish and maintain a “one-stop shop” at North Dakota’s Fort Berthold Reservation that would expedite the leasing and issuing of permits for oil and gas exploration on reservation lands, and to push forward the effort to develop the Red River Valley Water Supply and Northwest Area Water Supply projects.
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11/10/08
(BISMARCK, N.D.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) speaks about breaking America's dangerous dependence on foreign oil at a press conference during the second annual Great Plains Energy Expo and Showcase. The event is part of his Great Plains Energy Corridor initiative. To the Senator's left is Texas oilman and wind energy advocate T. Boone Pickens. Pickens also believes that America is dangerously dependent on foreign oil and has put together his "Pickens Plan" to help solve it. Dorgan announced at the press conference that he will soon introduce legislation utilizing some of the points in the "Pickens Plan."
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10/14/08
(WEST FARGO, N.D.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan, (D-N.D.), speaks to Susan Klabunde's sixth grade social studies students at Cheney Middle School. The Senator answered many questions the students had for him ranging from how to fix the current financial crisis to what his views are about the war in Iraq.
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10/13/08
(FARGO, N.D.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) announces a goal of doubling the number of jobs in the Red River Valley Research Corridor by 2015 at a press conference during the recent Red River Valley Research Corridor Conference: Milestones and Horizons. Dr. Craig Venter and Dean Kamen are to Dorgan's right. Venter was one of two scientists who headed the Human Genome Project and Dean Kamen has been called the modern-day Thomas Edison. They both were keynote speakers at the conference. The event celebrated the many accomplishments of the Research Corridor since its conception in 2002 and was a way to brainstorm future activities.
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09/23/08
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) talks with Air Force Chief of Staff General Norton A. Schwartz in Dorgan's Capitol Hill office about future initiatives at the Grand Forks and Minot Air Force Bases, including planning and preparing for new missions at both bases.
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09/10/08
(Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), alongside Representative Bart Stupak (D-MI), announces the findings of a report on oil speculation issued by Michael W. Masters (pictured left) of Masters Capital Management and Adam K. White of White Knight Research and Trading. The report uses data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Energy Information Administration, and investment sources to show how speculators, not supply and demand or a weak dollar, was the leading cause for record oil prices. Senator Dorgan renewed his pledge to crack down on oil speculators and said that addressing this problem should be part of this nation's comprehensive energy policy.
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08/23/08
(NEAR CASSELTON, N.D.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) listens to officials from the Tharaldson Ethanol Plant discuss construction progress of their new facility. The plant is expected to come on-line in September 2008. Dorgan has been a strong proponent of renewable fuels to help reduce America's dependence on foreign energy. The Senator is a senior member of the Senate's Energy and Natural Resources Committee and is Chairman of the Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee.
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08/19/08
(FARGO, N.D.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) holds a press conference to announce partnerships between two prestigious national laboratories and North Dakota State University, a key step forward for the Red River Valley Research Corridor. Dorgan was joined at the press conference by (from left to right) North Dakota State University Vice President for Research, Creative Activities and Technology Transfer Dr. Philip Boudjouk; Sandia National Laboratory Deputy Director for Integrated Technologies and Systems Alton Romig; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Associate Director for National Security Barry Merrill; and NDSU President Joseph A. Chapman. Dorgan has brought the directors of several national laboratories to North Dakota and worked to forge ties between them and the Red River Valley Research Corridor.
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07/23/08
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) describes a bill he introduced Wednesday aimed at combating the high rate of violent crime in American Indian communities. Dorgan was joined at a Capitol Hill press conference by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), at right, and the bill's other co-sponsors, Senators Tim Johnson (D-SD), Pete Domenici (R-NM), Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and John Thune (R-SD). In North Dakota, the violent crime rate on the Spirit Lake Nation is 7 times the national average, and violent crime on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation is 5 ½ times the national average.
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07/17/08
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) meets Thursday with NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, who recently returned from a flight on Space Shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station. Nyberg, a graduate of the University of North Dakota, presented Dorgan with a U.S. flag and space shuttle crew patch that flew with her on the mission earlier this year.
