Economy
As a small business owner, I know it takes well-trained workers to keep our state’s small business economy growing. That’s why as an Executive Councilor, I worked across party lines to secure funding for New Hampshire’s job training and technical education programs. In Washington, I am continuing my commitment to increasing access to job training and career and technical education.
We also need to increase capital for small businesses and address onerous regulations that hamper the ability of our small businesses to thrive. We need to cut the red tape and make interactions between small businesses and federal agencies easier, support continued economic growth with creative solutions, and fight the online sales tax that is burdening New Hampshire’s small businesses.
Investing in job training and apprenticeship programs is essential to building a talent pipeline, which trains and matches workers with our amazing local companies looking to hire them. We must also work to make college more affordable, so those who want to pursue post-secondary education have the ability to do so, regardless of their zip code.
Together, we can ensure New Hampshire remains a great place for everyone to live and work.
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Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) led 49 members in demanding that Speaker Mike Johnson bring Members back to Washington immediately to protect funding for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC). Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) also signed the letter.
Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), alongside 170 House Democrats and 36 U.S. Senators, took the fight against President Donald Trump’s sweeping and chaotic on-again-off-again tariffs to the highest court in the land, filing an amicus brief before the United States Supreme Court.
Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), a small business owner, introduced the Creating Access to Necessary American-Canadian Duty Adjustments (CANADA) Act, legislation that would exempt United States-owned small businesses from tariffs imposed on Canada by President Trump. Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander (NH-02), a member of the House Small Business Committee, is an original cosponsor of this legislation.
This week Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Senator Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Senator Maggie Hassan (NH), and Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) held a press conference at Waypoint to highlight the harmful impacts of Republicans’ disastrous budget megabill on New Hampshire. You can view front page coverage of the press conference
Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) once again joined his colleagues in demanding Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent make an immediate exemption for essential infant and toddler products
Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) joined Senator Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Senator Maggie Hassan (NH), and Congresswoman Goodlander (NH-02) in urging U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer to reverse the DOL’s decision to close Job Corps Centers nationwide, including the New Hampshire Job Corps Center in Manchester.
Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) joined Senator Jeanne Shaheen (NH), a senior member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, Senator Maggie Hassan (NH), and Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) in welcoming more than $7 million in federal funding for Granite State projects through the Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC).
Today Congressman Chris Pappas, a small business owner, and Congresswoman Kelly Morrison, a member of the House Small Business Committee, introduced the Small Business Liberation Act in the House. This legislation, which was introduced in the Senate last month, would exempt the more than 34 million U.S. small businesses from President Trump’s catastrophically high tariffs enacted on April 2, 2025, which are effectively a national sales tax.
Following Congressman Chris Pappas’s (NH-01), Co-Chair of the Congressional Maple Caucus, call for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to reinstate grants delivered by the Acer Access and Development Program (Acer), funding for the Acer program has
This morning at 1:45 AM, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) delivered the following remarks on the House floor before voting against Republicans’ reconciliation bill:
“I rise tonight because health care is on the line, and so is the well-being and the dignity of the people I serve in New Hampshire.
The phones in my office won’t stop ringing because people I represent are beyond angry about the proposal to slash Medicaid.