Hackett still opposes bailout

Republican congressional candidate Chris Hackett told PolitickerPA.com Thursday that he still opposes Congress' $700 billion financial bailout plan even after the U.S. Senate moved to make the bill more attractive to GOP lawmakers.

"The new bailout bill is in some ways worse than the first one," Hackett said in a statement. "They added a bunch of special interest spending to entice more politicians to support it. But the bottom line is this still puts taxpayers at massive risk and doesn't fix the underlying cause of the crisis."

Hackett faces U.S. Rep. Chris Carney (D-Dimok) this fall in a race considered one of the country's most competitive. Carney voted against the bailout bill on Monday.

Hackett's campaign was the first contacted by PolitickerPA.com that definitively said whether or not the candidate supported the new bill. Other campaigns said they needed more time to review the bill, which has gone from a three-page document to one several hundred pages long.