From an email from a friend:

A recent score card of U.S. Senators and Representatives from the Children’s Defense Fund, gives Senators Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan and Congressman Earl Pomeroy a perfect score. It also gives the North Dakota Congressional Delegation a perfect score. The Delegation actually ranked first nationwide in the “Best State Delegations for Children” and “State Delegation Rankings for Children” categories.

The group is the Children’s Defense Fund.

I’m glad our congressmen are receiving recognition for their work, but I’m still disappointed we have 15,000 children in North Dakota without health insurance.

Since our most of the GOP state representatives (Berg, Kasper, etc.) run in fear at the thought of passing anything to help young North Dakotans, the federal government is the most likely governmental body to start helping these kids. With their new positions of power, Dorgan, Conrad, and Pomeroy are uniquely situated to help

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