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...Tuesday, count 64 votes so far, three short of the 67 that would send the measure to the states for ratification. The only senators whose votes are in doubt, according to vote counters on both sides of the issue, are Democrats Sam Nunn of Georgia, Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, Wendell Ford of Kentucky and John Breaux of Louisiana...
...BYRON DORGAN...
...billion to their coffers this year. If permitted, California could have raked in $417.8 million in mail-order sales taxes last year alone. But this is a tough sell in an election year when jittery lawmakers get plenty of mail from catalog-shopping constituents. As Representative Byron Dorgan of North Dakota put it, "The large catalog companies have the ability -- and they've done it in the past -- to wallpaper the Congress with millions of postcards." Direct mail, after all, is their business...
...Dorgan Task Force, a 10-member committee convened by North Dakota Congressman Byran L. Dorgan last spring to examine the merits of revenue enforcement plans, endorsed many of the policies Dukakis suggested in a report released...
Gearan said aides were trying to schedule a meeting between Dukakis and a group of congressmen headed by Rep. Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.), to discuss possible federal legislation on beefed up tax enforcement based on the commonwealth's tightened tax collecting policies under Dukakis...