Earl Pomeroy: “I am signing the discharge petition for the purpose of forcing floor consideration of the Patient's Bill of Rights.”

I respectfully request to submit the following letter to the record from the Bank of North Dakota for the hearing the Education and Labor committee held on May 21, 2009.

we are in the midst of a global food crisis. Rising food prices are negatively affecting the world's poorest people, who frequently spend 80 percent of their income on food. As a result, the world's most vulnerable populations, including…

That makes sense to me, contrary to what we heard last week.

this notion that the way we have been doing trade is the way we will do trade going forward, bring on the next trade deal, would be a very erroneous notion.