Business out there doesn't know what the rules are going to be, what regulations are coming out. They don't know what the taxes are going to be. If they invest in something, they don't know how they're going to be taxed as they get revenue out. In North Dakota, that doesn't happen.

In 2009 he earned the Petroleum Council’s Legislator of the Year and the North Dakota Chamber of Commerce's Greater North Dakotan award. The next day however Berg acknowledged his Democratic opponent's victory. " He has also proposed drilling for oil in federal lands including North Dakota's own Theodore Roosevelt National Park as a way to provide funding for Social Security.

Representative for North Dakota's at-large congressional district from 2011 to 2013. Berg served on the House Ways and Means Committee. Before his election to Congress in 2010 he served in the state House of Representatives with stints as Majority Leader and Speaker.