U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole's office also is receiving calls today about the potential auto bailout.

Spokesman Wes Clymer said the calls — a couple hundred so far — are about evenly divided between supporters and opponents. The numbers, he said, are nothing like the thousands of calls that poured into the office in opposition to the $700 billion bailout in September, Barb Barrett reports.

Dole, a Salisbury Republican, opposed the bailout in September and told auto executives in a hearing Tuesday that she remains very skeptical about their request as well.