New Hampshire Rep. Paul Hodes says he
believes all the necessary steps are being taken to find the source of tritium
leaking into groundwater at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.
New Hampshire’s two members of the U.S. House of Representatives
are on opposite sides of legislation steering unused Wall Street bailout money
to job creation programs.
After getting a
request from New
Hampshire’s
congressional delegation, the government is temporarily suspending a
requirement that some veterans repay retirement benefits if they re-enlist.
U.S. Rep. Paul
Hodes of New
Hampshire and
two House colleagues want to make sure lawmakers don’t get contributions in
return for federal earmarks, the footnotes members of Congress often use to
quietly send millions each year to special projects.