{"id":437,"date":"2008-12-11T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=437"},"modified":"2008-12-11T14:35:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T18:35:45","slug":"hodes-and-porter-support-unions-in-auto-bailout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2008\/12\/11\/hodes-and-porter-support-unions-in-auto-bailout\/","title":{"rendered":"Hodes and Porter support unions in auto bailout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 11, 2008<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmur.com\/news\/18251976\/detail.html\">WMUR-TV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CONCORD, N.H. &#8212; Both New Hampshire representatives have voted for the $14 billion auto industry rescue bill, saying it was needed to protect 12,000 state jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Carol Shea-Porter said she is disappointed with the auto industry&#8217;s management decisions in the past 30 years, but believes immediate action must be taken. Rep. Paul Hodes said he hopes the plan will encourage car makers to work on a long-term plan to revitalize the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Both Hodes and Shea-Porter opposed the $700 billion Wall Street bailout plan. In statements released Wednesday, they said they supported the auto rescue plan because it included strict oversight that other plans have lacked.<\/p>\n<p>The plan passed the House on Wednesday, but is expected to meet strong opposition from Senate Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>###<br \/>\n<em>It was probably more likely that this move was a payoff to the auto industry unions to save Porter and Hodes THEIR jobs in Congress rather than to save the jobs of the workers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 11, 2008 WMUR-TV CONCORD, N.H. &#8212; Both New Hampshire representatives have voted for the $14 billion auto industry rescue bill, saying it was needed to protect 12,000 state jobs. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter said she is disappointed with the auto industry&#8217;s management decisions in the past 30 years, but believes immediate action must be taken. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-nh","category-dishonorable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}