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In about 1855 the 14th US President and a New Hampshire native, Franklin Pierce, 1852 - 1856, a Democrat, would not agree to abolish slavery as proposed by some in the US Congress. He said that while he strongly disagreed with slavery in principal that abolishing it would be bad for business, or something like that.

This choice by the six Senators on the Transportation committee must be a difficult decision. There's a lot of public interest focused on it. There's plenty real NH businesses and residents on both sides of the issue and there's lots of money and people's time on both sides. I bet they are thinking deep on this one.