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WASHINGTON – As the 118th Congress begins, U.S. Representative Chris Pappas (D-NH-01) is urging House Democratic and Republican leadership to include a ban on trading stocks by members of Congress in the upcoming rules package.
A House rules change can apply to Members of the House immediately, which will give Congress time to pass a permanent law that applies to both the House and the Senate.
In 2021, Pappas broke with a reversal by Democratic leadership in the house regarding the stock trading ban.
WASHINGTON — A new bipartisan law should speed up payments to hard-to-find survivors of recently deceased veterans, according to U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H., who co-authored the measure.
President Joe Biden signed the Faster Payments to Veterans’ Survivors Act last Tuesday before heading off for a New Year’s holiday vacation with his family to St. Croix.
When a veteran passes away, the surviving spouse or child are eligible to receive certain benefits, such as life insurance proceeds.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Biden on Tuesday signed into law bipartisan legislation cosponsored by Senator Maggie Hassan, and supported by Congressman Chris Pappas, to help law enforcement officers respond effectively to people experiencing mental or behavioral health crises.
U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas said all same-sex couples in America should be relieved after the House passed legislation Thursday that would preempt any future Supreme Court from nullifying those marriages.
Pappas, 42, the first openly gay person elected to federal office in New Hampshire, told the Union Leader he and his partner, Vann Bentley, would marry next February.
Internet speeds up to 2 gigabits per second are now available to New Hampshire Electric Cooperative members in Sandwich as high-speed access expands in rural New Hampshire, the co-op announced Friday.
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Sandwich Broadband Advisory Committee and town officials began lobbying providers to reach unserved and underserved residents.
MANCHESTER — The Manchester Police Department will use a $300,000 federal grant to purchase new technology that can identify the location of gunshots fired in the city within 60 seconds, U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H., has announced.
This earmarked grant that Pappas requested was within a federal budget bill the Congress passed last March. The Biden administration recently released funding for the MPD grant.
CONWAY — The Mount Washington Valley Trails Association has announced it learned Tuesday it had received $2.2 million from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to help build a 2.2-mile extension of the Conway Recreation Path from Cranmore Mountain Resort in North Conway to the state’s Scenic Vista in Intervale.
“This is very exciting news,” said Trails Association President Chris Meier on Thursday
Combined with $1 million from the Connie Davis Watson Foundation last spring, Meier said the federal grant will pay for the rec path extension.
Nine houses of worship across New Hampshire — including four in Manchester and two in Nashua — are getting nearly $1 million in funding to improve security, members of the state’s congressional delegation announced recently.
Congressman Chris Pappas (D1) visited the newly renovated Makers Mill Community Makerspace and Vocation Hub on Aug. 25. The project received funding from the Northern Border Regional Commission and a USDA Rural Business Development Grant.
MANCHESTER — Southern New Hampshire’s BioFabrication cluster, which would manufacture cells, tissues and organs in Manchester’s Millyard, has won a competitive $44 million grant, the federal government was scheduled to announce Friday morning.
The Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) designed by Dean Kamen, is the lead builder and the city of Manchester the lead sponsor among six partners for this grant, chosen from hundreds of applications under the Build Back Better Rapid Challenge Grant program with the U.S. Commerce Dept.