Hodes, Horn participate in businesswomen forum

Last night U. S. Rep. Paul Hodes (D-Concord) and Jennifer Horn (R-Nashua) participated in a forum sponsored by the Concord Business and Professional Women organization.

"Hodes described how his greatest successes have involved helping constituents back home. Horn talked about her family, accused Hodes of failing to change Washington enough and called for a smaller, more frugal government free of ‘roadblocks,'" The Concord Monitor reports.

"The most surprising thing that I've discovered is the amount of impact a member of Congress has right here at home," Hodes said. "Change starts at home. . . . It's about helping folks reconnect with their government."

Horn criticized Congress for not providing oversight of the financial markets.

"There are a lot of folks that bear the blame for this," she said. "This is not a failure of the free market, this is not a failure of you as a investor, or an individual or a mom. This is a failure of government. It's a failure of appropriate, enforced oversight. . . . We haven't seen these kinds of failures in the retail banking industry. They have strict oversight."