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Congressional candidate Jennifer Horn (R-Nashua) issued a press release that said her opponent has done nothing to deal with the current economic situation.

Horn said that U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes (D-Concord) has accepted $141,000 in campaign donations from financial service companies, which resulted in Hodes "looking the other way." The Hodes campaign responded that Hodes has fought for "tighter regulation and oversight."

WASHINGTON – The National Republican Congressional Committee, faced with an increasingly difficult electoral map, is making a last-ditch effort to widen the playing field.

Today the cash-strapped committee contributed a little over $80,000 in coordinated funds to help Republican U.S. House candidate Jennifer Horn run a television advertisement targeting U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes (D-Concord).

"As a mom, I know it's hard to make end's meat," Horn says at the outset of the 30-second spot. "Families pay for Congress's bad economic decisions and Republicans and Democrats share blame. In Congress, Paul Hodes's committee oversees financial companies. But Paul Hodes took money from the mortgage and banking companies instead of working to avoid this crisis. And he voted to pave the way for the largest tax increase in history. We deserve better."

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.

U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes (D-Concord): Photo Credit: PolitickerNH.comCONCORD--The Professional Fire Fighters of New Hampshire (PFFNH) have endorsed U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes (D-Concord) in the 2nd Congressional District race.

David Lang, president of the PFFNH said the group endorsed Hodes because of his stance on the FIRE and SAFER Acts and Hodes economic record.

A Saint Anselm College poll shows U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-Rochester) and U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes (D-Concord) beating their Republican opponents.

This is the first poll that has shown Shea-Porter ahead of former U.S. Rep. Jeb Bradley (R-Wolfeboro).

Shea-Porter is ahead of Bradley 42 percent to 35 percent in the 1st Congressional District. While, Hodes is beating Jennifer Horn (R-Nashua) 35 percent to 18 percent in the 2nd Congressional District. However, the poll finds that 45 percent of voters are undecided in the Hodes-Horn race and 21 percent are undecided in the Shea-Porter-Bradley race.

Congressional candidate Jennifer Horn (R-Nashua) has begun airing her first television ad.

The thirty-second ad, titled "Pockets," criticizes U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes (D-Concord) economic record while in Congress.

For the second time this week, U.S. Reps. Paul Hodes (D-Concord) and Carol Shea-Porter (D-Rochester) voted against the proposed bailout legislation.

This second bill overwhelmingly passed both chambers of Congress.

New Hampshire's two United States Representatives are still undecided over whether or not they will support a revised bailout bill that is expected to be voted on later today.

U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes (D-Concord) and U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-Rochester) both voted against the original bill on Monday.

Both U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes (D-Concord) and U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-Rochester) have issued statements relating to their votes on the financial bailout, they both voted no on the bill.

"Our economy has been battered by eight years of a financial wild west on Wall Street. There was no oversight and no accountability," Shea-Porter said in a statement. "I thought it was a mistake for the Administration to ask Congress to vote on a $700 billion bill to bail out Wall Street with only a single week to consider the proposal and a single day to review it. The Administration asked Congress to give up its Constitutional power of the purse and hand over a blank check for $700 billion. Congress said no."

New Hampshire's two members of Congress voted no on the Wall Street bailout bill moments ago.

U.S. Reps. Paul Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter will be holding conference calls soon.