Honorable Byron Dorgan
United States Senator, North Dakota, Democrat
Dorgan was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992. He serves on the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. The following is excerpted from an September 15, 2009, Senate floor statement. Most of us spend all of our day having a better day because of energy and think very little about it. We get up in the morning, perhaps, and use an electric razor or an electric toothbrush. We go to the kitchen and have some coffee that was made by plugging the coffeemaker in or turning on a stove. Then we get in a car, put a key…
