Officials expected to find broad support among politicians outside Manhattan, whose constituents stood to benefit.
MPs whose constituents use the hospital are increasingly worried about the situation.
Then he asked the board to cut the dividend, further challenging the directors, whose constituents (shareholders) wanted the income.
There are just nine Democratic representatives whose constituents backed Romney, and they are all on the endangered species list.
The other project is Trident, which the defence secretary (whose constituents build submarines) supported on Monday as essential.
This worries Mr. Harkin, the Iowa Democrat, whose constituents include agricultural concerns that want better oversight of trading.
Treatment had also become the focus of a wide range of cancer-advocacy groups, whose constituents forcefully lobbied Congress for more funds to address their needs.
MPs whose constituents have been affected have called on HBOS to make up the shortfall, and on EHR'S directors to dip into their own pockets.
Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand, whose constituents include Wall Street banks, urged regulators this week to clarify how they would enforce the rule.
The Labour MP Karen Buck, whose constituents in Westminster North have major problems with gangs, said: "I'm sure there is inter-departmental stress over who is in charge.
Blackie spoke, as did the foreign secretary, William Hague, MP for Richmond, many of whose constituents would be affected by the plans.
