The following is a transcript of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's announcement following a meeting today of the North Atlantic Council

"The Association Agreement, including a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) between the EU and Ukraine, was negotiated between 2007 and 2011 and signed on 21 March and 27 June 2014.

"As Russian forces attack targets across Ukraine, commodity traders are watching the country’s vast network of infrastructure that’s key to supplying gas, crops and steel to Europe and beyond.

1953 FBI Photo Shoot. My mom, in front, was a young woman of 19 living in Washington, D.C. having been recruited out of airline school to work for the FBI.

Human trafficking, child sexual abuse, Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) being sold online,

"A community that cannot feed its people is at the mercy of whoever can."

The pandemic did not create a food crisis, it shined a big spot light on the crisis already in existence in the United States.

In 2018, as a Billings City Council Member, I supported and began working with Missoula County Commissioner Dave Strohmaier to educate myself and others on a Rail Authority and bringing passenger rail service back to southern Montana.

I grew up working in a family restaurant owned by my parents. Learning a strong work ethic at a young age has served me well throughout my professional life.

To value your concerns; to commit to delivering effective and meaningful solutions: Penny Ronning exemplifies a superb Montana Representative in US Congress.

"I believe you, and the members of the committee, have substantially underestimated the Great Middle of America and what’s happening with all of those good and decent people from sea to shining sea.