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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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.
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07/17/08
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) holds a press conference with Senate Democratic Leadership to discuss legislation he is co-sponsoring to end excess oil speculation. Dorgan called on Congress to approve the legislation quickly to put a stop to rampant speculation, which experts say has driven the price of oil to an artificially high level that is hurting consumers.
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07/10/08
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) meets with Col. Joel Westa, commander of the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, and Staff Sgt. Julia Coopman in Dorgan's Capitol Hill office. Dorgan and Col. Westa discussed the Air Force's plans to bring a new squadron of B-52s to Minot Air Force Base.
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07/01/08
(MICHIGAN, N.D.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) chats with Michigan World War II veteran Milo Elgin before a flag raising ceremony here on Tuesday, July 1, commemorating the town's 125th anniversary. The flag was previously flown over the U.S. Capitol at Senator Dorgan's request.
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06/23/08
(FARGO, N.D.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan holds a press conference at North Dakota State University on June 23 with Philip Boudjouk, NDSU’s Vice President for Research, Creative Activities and Technology Transfer, about the dramatic expansion of the university’s supercomputer. NDSU is able to achieve this new milestone at its Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) because of $7.8 million in funding that Dorgan secured for it in Fiscal Year 2008. Also at the press conference, it was announced that NDSU will soon join the Northern Tier Network, a cutting-edge cyberinfrastructure. Dorgan secured funding for that project as well.
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06/09/08
(BISMARCK, N.D.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan speaks at a meeting he hosted with area farm groups in Bismarck about the high price of fertilizer. To his right is Dave Wales, deputy director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition. Dorgan invited Wales to the meeting to listen to concerns that area agriculture groups have about the high price of fertilizer. It’s expected that North Dakota farmers will spend nearly twice as much on fertilizer this year as they did in 2005.
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04/22/08
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) meets at his Capitol Hill office with (l-r) Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson and Northwest Airlines CEO Doug Steenland to discuss the companies’ proposed merger. Dorgan has expressed concern about the merger. He told the two executives he is concerned about both service and pricing in rural states where there is already little or no effective competition.
