The head of GM said creating jobs in the United States should be a source of bipartisan pride.
Pete Riley from Friends of the Earth - which spearheaded campaigns against the introduction of GM - said the results had not surprised him.
"Today's meeting with the Presidential Task Force on Autos was just the beginning of the hard work ahead for GM and the president's team, " GM said in a statement.
Friends of the Earth's GM campaigner Emily Diamand said the vote showed common sense and was a victory for consumers, who were "overwhelmingly opposed" to GM foods.
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But GM said the improvement on July's figures suggested that the market may just have bottomed out.
Car industry analyst Gary Chaison, a professor of labour relations at Clark University, said the GM announcement marked the end of an era.
Michael Meacher - sacked as a minister in the recent reshuffle - said studies on the effects of GM foods on human health had been "scientifically vacuous", and warned the government against rushing the debate.
After a two-week road show to promote the offering around the world, investor demand is so strong that GM said Wednesday it would sharply increase the number of shares for sale.
"I'd rather say it shows how creative we would like to be, " said the Yankee GM.
"Today's results provide evidence of a solid foundation we're building for the new GM, " Henderson said in a written statement.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the German firm said that GM's numbers were boosted by adding sales of its Chinese partners.
"It's about rolling up your sleeves and diving into the viability plan, " said GM spokesman Greg Martin.
During a speech at the New York Auto Show yesterday, Gary Cowger , president of GM's North America unit, said the company must make progress this year on health care.
Approval for commercial production should be conditional on the rearing of GM salmon and others in land-locked facilities, the report said.
On the government role in the deal, he said he personally went to the US to talk to the GM chief executive and chairman, but did not "wave a chequebook" in order to secure the deal.
"We took a player we coveted quite a bit, " Dolphins GM Jeff Ireland said of the player he hopes could be the next Jason Taylor.
"There's a perception that we're in on a couple dozen starting pitchers, three dozen outfielders and infielders, 17, 18 catchers, " GM Ned Colletti said during the winter meetings.
Efforts by the likes of GM to introduce EVs into the market in the 1990s floundered -- car makers said it was because of a lack of customer demand.
He said a public debate on the GM issue was under way, and people were welcome to contribute views.
Mr Meacher said studies on the effects of GM foods on human health had been "scientifically vacuous", and warned the government against rushing the debate.
"There's about 160m hectares of GM being grown around the world, " he said.
Sir Bob May, the president of the Royal Society, said he hoped research into GM animals would be funded primarily by public sources so that it could meet the needs of developing countries, rather than being driven by the desires of agribusiness for leaner meat and cheaper food.
Former Denver Broncos general manager Ted Sundquist, who interviewed for the Jets' job last week, said that Idzik possesses the sort of reasoned, unemotional manner that any successful GM must have.
"We're in the sweet spot of our product portfolio, " said GM Chief Financial Officer FritzHendersonFritz Henderson.
The Treasury has said it intends to fully exit its GM investments by April 2014.
But Ed Welburn, GM vice president of global design, said the car will be unmistakeably Cadillac.
The vice president of GM North America, Mark LaNeve, said his firm was enjoying a growing reputation.
In internal meetings, Akerson is said to be hammering home the point with GM executives and employees.
"We're in the sweet spot of our product portfolio, " said GM Chief Financial Officer Fritz Henderson .
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