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To: carranza2 who wrote (51564)	6/20/2009 12:23:53 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 219763

>>what really matters at the end of the day is that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is overseen by the House and Senate Agriculture Committees<< Yep, this guy is from my old stomping grounds in Minnesota... Politico: Collin Peterson blocks an Obama financial proposal By EAMON JAVERS and VICTORIA MCGRANE, Politico Last update: June 18, 2009 - 12:22 PM As President Barack Obama began to craft his massive Wall Street regulatory reform proposal this year, he ran smack into opposition from an unlikely Democratic source: guitar-playing, cigar-chomping Rep. Collin Peterson, who represents the nation’s No. 1 sugar beet farming district in Minnesota. What’s even stranger is that Peterson, the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, won the financial fight and blocked a proposal that would have destroyed a regulatory agency he favors. more: startribune.com