A North Dakota payoff attempt for a health care bill 'yea'?

Republicans are going after Rep. Earl Pomeroy, a North Dakota Democrat, who is currently undecided on the health care bill, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, for possibly setting up a sweetheart deal in the student loan provision of the health care bill in exchange for his support on the legislation. House Minority Leader John Boehner, Ohio Republican, sent out a press release Thursday saying the following:

“This 'Bismarck Bank Job' provision looks like exactly the sort of backroom deal that makes the American people hate Washington and the whole process that has led to this massive, awful government takeover of our health care. Rep. Earl Pomeroy, the only House Member from the State of North Dakota has some questions to answer. Did he know about this provision?  Was it inserted in an attempt to secure his support for the health care bill?

Democratic Leaders owe the American people an explanation: Did they cut a backroom deal on this issue?  What other backroom deals have they cut in their eleventh-hour push to jam through a bill that the American people have soundly rejected? The American people want answers, and they deserve the truth.” 

The education section of the bill is the student loan provision, whereby private lenders will no longer have the authority to handle student loans. Instead, all student loans would be dealt with solely through the federal government. However, within the CBO cost estimate for the education portion of the health care bill (at the top table of Page 2 or Section 2213 of the actual language), there appears to be a questionable guaranteed lending circumstance that goes exclusively to the Bank of North Dakota.