Honorable Earl Pomeroy
United States Representative, North Dakota, Democrat
Representative Pomeroy, the Representative-at-Large from North Dakota, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992. He served in the North Dakota House of Representatives from 1980 to 1984, and as Vice President and then President of the North Dakota Insurance Commissioners from 1989 to 1990. He is a member of the Agriculture Committee and the International Relations Committee. The following is from the House floor debate of June 18, 1999, on the Conyers amendment to H.R. 2122, the Mandatory Gun Background Check Act. The Conyers amendment sought to extend Brady bill background checks to gun shows, regulate…
