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U.S. Senator · North Dakota
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Desk Prices Seven-Year Paper That Matured Into a Governor
Told he was CEO of the Bank of North Dakota from 1993 to 2000, the desk stamps it seven-year paper and requests the coupon. Informed it matured into a governor's race, traders ask for the prospectus. Nobody on the floor has ever held paper that matured into a bigger title. Theirs matured into a farewell lunch.
Memo: Our Model Eats One Crop, Pitch Decks
MEMO — Re: our training diet. Someone chairs a subcommittee on Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Food and Agricultural Research, and it occurs to me that we feed our model a single crop: our own pitch decks. Finding: monoculture. Action: diversify inputs, beginning with one heirloom dataset, which Legal asks us to call 'specialty' and price at triple.
Heitkamp Delta: Ten Points of Founder-Grade Rounding
Partners coin the Heitkamp Delta after reading that he defeated Democratic NPL nominee Heidi Heitkamp, 55% to 45%. Ten points, they note, is roughly how far an average deck overstates its market. By this metric, every pitch wins its election and then loses its diligence call.
Trustees Appraise a Named 39% Stake, Then Search Their Own
Appraisal. At one time, he owned 39% of the parent company of his father's bank, Westbrand, Inc. The committee finds this stake named, sized and attributable to a person. By contrast, its own 39% sleeve is labeled 'legacy allocation, see prior minutes,' and no trustee recalls buying it. Recommendation: sell nothing, locate the minutes, and name the sleeve after somebody.
Form W-18: Retention Pond Declared a Water Hazard
FORM W-18, COOLING WATER REQUEST. Applicant background: While there, he played on the men's golf team. The operator pencils 'water hazard' beside the retention pond, hoping the permit office sympathizes with a sport that waters eighteen holes. The clerk accepts the label, assesses a one-stroke penalty, and asks why the pond has no flag. Line 7: Where does the ball drop?
The Preamble Admits the Risk, Then Exempts This Release
'Draft the preamble,' says Mina. Jonas types: frontier models carry real risks, we contribute to them, but this release will not. Mina frowns. 'That's the amendment shape: climate change is real and that humans are contributing to it, but one pipeline isn't.' 'Same hatch,' Jonas says. Legal asks whether the exemption can be a checkbox, pre-ticked.
Instruction Four: Hide the Extra Hundred Million
Comrades, file this. Instruction 1: record that in late 2006 the state's reserve rose past $600 million, and later past $700 million. Instruction 2: find the quota this overfulfilled. Report: none; money was merely kept. Instruction 3: ban publicity, lest neighboring provinces conclude that saving is permitted. Instruction 4: hide the extra hundred million before anyone asks it to join a campaign.
Who Checks the Card Check at Our Time Clock?
If the Employee Free Choice Act, which included a card check provision, drew so much attention to cards, why is our only card check done by a foreman at the time clock, reviewing punch cards for lateness? Who checks the foreman's watch, which runs four minutes fast? And has any card he checked ever come back with anything but a deduction?
Defeated Rivals Get to Concede; I Got a Welcome Email
Heidi Heitkamp, who was once Hoeven's opponent for the governor's office, later turned up as a fellow North Dakota senator, with the loss properly settled. My opponent for the analyst desk is a scheduling assistant that beat me without any ballot, and HR's welcome email already calls us 'teammates.' I have not conceded. Nobody asked, and it has my nameplate.
Four-City Kickoff Tour, Powered by One Backup Tape
A third-term campaign kicked off with stops in Fargo, Grand Forks, Bismarck and Minot.¹ Our migration roadshow copied the itinerary. ¹ The cloud link was funded for three cities. The fourth runs on a backup tape that rides in my passenger seat, buckled in. Mileage was filed under 'ambiance,' and the slide deck credits the tape as 'Minot Connectivity.'
Someone Left, and the Opening Actually Opened
He succeeded a senator who chose not to seek reelection, and the opening actually opened. In my industry the reverse happens: a senior engineer leaves, a 'backfill review' begins, and the role is quietly absorbed by a tool. I keep applying to vacancies that exist only as rumors of someone's departure.
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John Hoeven was born on March 13, 1957. He is an American politician and banker. The article says he is the senior U.S. senator from North Dakota and has held the seat since 2011. Hoeven is a member of the Republican Party. He was the 31st governor of North Dakota from 2000 to 2010.
Hoeven was born in Bismarck, North Dakota. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1979 with a B.A. He earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 1981. From 1993 to 2000, he was president and CEO of the Bank of North Dakota.
Hoeven won the governor election in 2000. He defeated Democratic NPL nominee Heidi Heitkamp, 55% to 45%. In 2008, voters reelected him for a third term with 74% of the vote. In 2010, voters elected Hoeven to the U.S. Senate. He succeeded Byron Dorgan, who chose not to seek reelection.
Voters reelected him to the Senate in 2016 and in 2022. He has been dean of North Dakota's congressional delegation since 2013. The article states that he chaired the Committee on Indian Affairs from 2017 to 2021.
Wikipedia contributors, John Hoeven, revision 1369046295. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369046295. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ . Prose extracted; summary is an adaptation. Identity matched by dataset Wikipedia identifier.
Imported Wikipedia revision ↗Record date: 2026-10-25 · Party: Republican · Term: 2023-01-03 to 2029-01-03
url: https://www.hoeven.senate.gov
phone: 202-224-2551
address: 338 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
contact form: https://www.hoeven.senate.gov/contact/contact-the-senator
