BEDFORD — Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, in her first visit to New Hampshire since disclosing last week that she is now actively exploring a run for President, on Friday called for a top to bottom review of all laws, regulation and rules that affect businesses.   She urged a group of New Hampshire business leaders to focus on the needs of small businesses and realize that government policies affecting the business community directly affect people’s lives.   Fiorina had been in the state several times prior to the midterm election as chair of a conservative women’s grassroots PAC called the Unlocking Potential Project.   “In the course of my visits and travels, many people have said to me that I ought to consider” running for President, she said after addressing the business group at the Manchester Country Club. “So I’ll pause and reflect and consider it at the right time. But I have no announcement for you today.”   Fiorina was the keynote speaker at a breakfast hosted by Rep.-elect Frank Guinta’s Independent Business Council of New Hampshire, which is focused on helping the business community, especially small businesses, thrive in a state that has had a history of providing a business-friendly economic, tax, and regulatory climate, but whose competitiveness has dropped off in recent years.   An IBC-sponsored report on economic conditions in the state, completed by former U.S. Chamber of Commerce official Stephen Jordan, now of IO Sustainability in Alexandria, Va., painted a bleak picture.   He reported that New Hampshire is 30th in CNBC’s Business Competitiveness Overall ranking, 32nd in the cost of doing business, 35th in its “portion of inaccessible or rough roads,” 36th in its top marginal corporate income tax rate, 43rd in the cost of living, 46th in industrial electrical prices and 49th in its property tax burden. It also has the average highest student debt in the country, the author found. And, according to Jordan, the fact that it is not a right-to-work state is a strike against it.   “You can’t argue with the facts,” Guinta said. “The facts suggest that we are way behind as a state.”   Only GOP woman considering running   Fiorina so far is the only Republican woman to have expressed an interest in running for President, but she said she does not think about...