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3/13/2007: On this date, March 13, 1957, a baby boy, John, was born to Jack and Trish at St. Alexius Hospital in Bismarck. John, the middle of three children, ( he has two sisters), would grow up to graduate from Bishop Ryan High School in Minot and later earn a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire…after that, a master’s degree in business administration from Northwestern University in Chicago. After several years in the banking industry, John Hoeven would make his first foray into politics a successful one, becoming elected Governor of North Dakota in two t...

He's the secretary of the interior, $25,000. >> oh, look at that. >> his was a bargain. >> 25,000. look at that -- look at the hat he's got. we paid for that stupid portrait, right? >> a congressman has a bill that would eliminate called the ego act, which i like it. >> yeah. >> and in some ways this is just rounding errors in terms of money these people waste, but -- >> where does that money come from, stossel? >> from the taxpayer. president obama in the last two years -- >> is it in the discretionary fund? what fund pays for it? >> i don't know which fund. >> we've got to find that out. we'...

Fund? what fund pays for it? >> i don't know which fund. >> we've got to find that out. we've got to find out where these pinhead cabinet people. ed schaefer, former secretary of agriculture. there's ed, okay? and this -- you know, they go around -- between $20,000 and $45,000, and one more, jim nicholson, the former v.a. chief, there's jim. look at him. he has the same tie on in the portrait that he has looking at the portrait. >> that was worth $10,000. >> all right. so this comes at i think it's probably discretionary funds in their organizations, in their government organizations, and they...

He's the secretary of the interior, $25,000. >> oh, look at that. >> his was a bargain. >> 25,000. look at that -- look at the hat he's got. we paid for that stupid portrait, right? >> a congressman has a bill that would eliminate called the ego act, which i like it. >> yeah. >> and in some ways this is just rounding errors in terms of money these people waste, but -- >> where does that money come from, stossel? >> from the taxpayer. president obama in the last two years -- >> is it in the discretionary fund? what fund pays for it? >> i don't know which fund. >> we've got to find that out. we'...