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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01/21/10
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan and Congressman Earl Pomeroy talk with Amtrak official Joe McHugh in a meeting. Amtrak and Burlington Northern Santa Fe officials assured the North Dakota congressional delegation the companies are committed to preserving Empire Builder service to all of North Dakota’s stations. They agreed to work with the delegation to address infrastructure issues, and said trains will continue to serve all stations in the state.
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10/17/09
(MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) tours a temporary classroom at Erik Ramstad Middle School that will be replaced by a permanent classroom built with federal economic recovery funds. Giving him the tour are Superintendent Dr. Dave Looysen and School Board President Nancy Langseth. Dorgan stopped at Ramstad for a firsthand look at the project, which will create jobs and give the Minot school system a new facility that will last for decades. The Minot Public School system received $5.9 million through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for a number of construction projects around the community.
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09/25/09
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) greets Virgil Andersen, a World War II veteran from Fargo, at the World War II Memorial on the National Mall. Dorgan welcomed a fleet of World War II veterans from the Grand Forks area as they arrived in Washington, D.C. as part of a World War II Honor Flight.
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09/18/09
(BISMARCK, N.D.) --- At a Bismarck Cenex fuel station, U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) kicks off a study that will explore more oil refining opportunities in North Dakota. Dennis Hill, manager of North Dakota Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives, joined Dorgan in making the announcement. Dorgan, Chairman of the Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee, secured nearly $500,000 in federal funding to allow the NDAREC to facilitate and organize the study.
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09/17/09
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) --- U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) greets Major General Roger Burg in Dorgan’s Capitol Hill office. Dorgan met with Burg, who oversees Minot Air Force Base’s 91st Missile Wing as Commander of the 20th Air Force, Air Force Space Command, at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming. Dorgan and Burg discussed the status of Minot’s nuclear mission, and Dorgan, a member of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, reiterated his commitment to supporting the Air Force nuclear enterprise and ensuring the men and women at Minot Air Force Base have the resources they need to carry out their missions.
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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.
