1. Woman from Hanover to McCain:  Should the Republican Party be more inclusive by encouraging pro-choice voters to support their candidates?
 

2. Man from Plainfield to Forbes:  I believe we need to start making polluters pay more of their fair share for clean air and clean water.  In a lot of states around the country including New Hampshire and Texas, some of the biggest polluting power plants and incinerators pay only a fraction of the true cost and that leaves the rest of us to make up the difference, either with our wallets or maybe with our health.

What I'd like to know is, where in your economic plan are the pollution fees, or other marketplace incentives that will get polluters to clean up their act?
 

[Note: Protester on defense spending started up just as the woman from Lebanon was asking the third question of the evening].

3. Woman from Lebanon to Bauer:  In recent years, we've seen a growing disparity between technological haves and have nots.  The have nots, in their turn, don't have access to information which many people do have.  I was wondering if you do see this as a problem, and if so, do you think it's something that will run its own course or is there a plan of action that you plan to take?
 

4. Man from Alstead to Hatch:  ...I'd like to hear the Senator's position on Second Amendment rights, and if elected, what his policy would be toward the recent wave of litigation facing the firearms industry.
 

5. Woman from New London to Keyes:  ...in the recent years NASA and other space endeavors have experienced millions, if not billion dollar disasters.  Do you think that the taxpayers should continue to fund these programs?  Or shouldn't it move to the private sector?
 

6. Woman from Lebanon to Bauer:  I'm a fourth-year surgical resident at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, and my question has two parts.  As you know, there's growing concern that the control of health care is shifting from physcians to the bureaucrats of insurance companies and HMOs.  Yet, despite this loss of control, physicians still bear the burden of liability for the care they're allowed to provide.

My first question is, do you think that HMOs should share this burden of liability?  And my second question is, how would you propose to rectify this imbalance between the control of and responsibility for providing health care?
 

7. Woman from Lebanon to Forbes:  ...if you become our next president, what specifically will you do to eliminate United States citizens from feeling that they need to travel to Canada and Mexico to purchase their prescription drugs because the costs here are absolutely exorbitant?
 

8. Man from Hanover to McCain:  Senator McCain, the health care costs of alcohol abuse in our country are staggering.  In contrast, we have a number of health care professionals, a growing number, agreeing that medical marijuana has legitimate medicinal value.  Nevertheless, alcohol is illegal--excuse me, legal; marijuana is illegal.

If you support medical marijuana, what would you do to expedite its legalization?  And if you're against medical marijuana, given that both alcohol and marijuana equally classify as gateway drugs, how do you reconcile the tolerance for alcohol with the intolerance for marijuana?
 

9. Woman from Claremont to Keyes:  Elizabeth Dole says that drugs aren't cool, they kill.  How do you plan to continue with the war on drugs?
 

10. Man from Lebanon to Hatch:  ...Senator, my question for you is, would you support and fight to give the uninsured American access to the same health care policy that you as an elected official has? 
 

11. Man from West Lebanon to Forbes:  Mr. Forbes, will you hire qualified men and women to work on your campaign and in your administration who are openly gay?  Or will you ban and/or fire such people simply because they are openly gay?
 

12. Man from Hanover to Bauer:  The United States is a nation of immigrants, so I wanted to hear some thoughts from you regarding immigration policy.  I would like to know whether you would want to change the immigration quotas--increase them, decrease them, leave them the same.  What do you think should be the criteria in terms of selecting potential immigrants?  And finally what should we do about the millions of undocumented illegal immigrants in this country who are working, paying taxes, living here? 
 

13. Woman from West Lebanon to Keyes:  My question is, do you support funding for national community service programs such as AmeriCorps?  Why or why not?
 

14. Man from Etna to Hatch:  You've had a long and distinguished career in the Senate, Senator Hatch.  And I'd like to know from your perspective what is the best policy--and I'm talking about domestic policy--you feel America has embarked on now and why?  And what would you do to keep it rolling along?  And, on the other hand, what is the worst policy in your opinion and why?  And what would you do to put us back on track?
 

15. Man from Hanover to McCain:  Senator McCain, you have been a very articulate advocate for rebuilding the armed forces.  My question is, in the light of the failing system that we have at the present time, is your idea for rebuilding the armed forces doable without resorting to some form of draft in peacetime?
 

16. Unidentified via Judy Woodruff to all candidates:  There was another very good question that was submitted tonight.  The person who submitted it could not be here.  But we want it to be asked, so we are going to take the liberty of asking a question about taxes.  And we're going to pose it to all of you and give each one of you an opportunity.

The question has to do with tax reform, the tax overhaul that has been proposed, the so-called flat tax.  We want to ask each of you, do you favor a flat tax?  If so, at exactly what rate?
 

17. Man from Hanover to Keyes:  Currently the United States has about $1 billion in overdue membership dues to the United Nations.  this delinquency is threatening our seat on the Security Council and also damaging our credibility with the international community.  So my question is, do you think the reasons for our withholding payment are valid and, if not, what would you do as president to ensure that the bill gets paid?
 

18. Man from Lyme to Bauer:  To what extent do we serve the college-age people of America by leaving them at graduation with thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars in debt?  Isn't there a better way of funding higher education?
 

19. Woman from Hanover to McCain:  We all talk about the importance of education.  Shortly in our country we'll lose over two million teachers to retirement.  How can wee attract the best and the brightest teachers given the current salaries?
 

20. Woman from Hanover to Forbes:  Amid all the sort of hoopla of being the first in the nation, for voting in the primary, we do take our voting very seriously.  And yet what we're watching is, sort of a nomination process that reminds me more of an auction where the nomination goes to the highest bidder.  I'd really like to be able to ask this to the candidate who's not here, but I can't do that.  Mr. Forbes, as nominee of the Republican Party or as president, what would you do to keep the future nominations from being bought?
 

21. Man from Lebanon to Hatch:  Senator Hatch, I'm a middle school social studies teacher.  And I talk with my students about the importance of taking part in this democratic system and the role that money plays in the electoral process.  Just recently Elizabeth Dole left the party because apparently she could not financially compete.  What would your administration do to address the concerns surrounding campaign finance reform?
 

Woodruff:  ...We just have a little bit of time left, and in that time we'd like to give each candidate 20 seconds to sum up for the evening...