Press Releases
MANCHESTER, NH - Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) released the following statement after the announcement by President Trump today that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed by U.S. forces:
Legislation to display POW/MIA Flag alongside U.S. flag moves to President Trump's desk
Washington, D.C. – Today, the House passed Congressman Chris Pappas’s (NH-01) bipartisan legislation to require the POW/MIA Flag be displayed alongside the American flag at certain federal buildings and memorials to honor all POW/MIAs and the more than 81,000 service members who are unaccounted for from conflicts since World War II.
Legislation Would Designate October 28 as “Oxi Day” to Commemorate Greece’s Pivotal Role Resisting Axis Forces
Representatives Chris Pappas (NH-01), John Sarbanes (MD-03), and Gus Bilirakis (FL-12), members of the Hellenic Caucus, introduced a resolution today expressing support for the designation of October 28 as “Oxi Day” to commemorate the Greeks’ refusal to surrender to Axis forces in the Second World War, stymieing the march of fascism across Europe.
In an Energy & Commerce Hearing today their legislation was added to HR3, The Lower Drug Costs Now Act of 2019, House Democrats’ effort to lower the cost of prescription drugs.
Washington, D.C.- Representative Chris Pappas (NH-01) and Paul Tonko’s (NY-20) legislation to expand low-income seniors' access to prescription drugs under the Medicare prescription drug benefit program passed through Committee as an important addition to the Houses HR 3, the Lower Drug Costs Now Act of 2019. Their legislation, The Advancing Enroll
Washington, D.C.- Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Chair of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs held a hearing examining issues with the credentialing and privileging of clinicians in light of incidents where veterans have been harmed.
Following a troubling hearing held last month by the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Chairman Chris Pappas (NH-01) and Ranking Member Jack Bergman (MI-01) led a bipartisan letter calling on the VA to take immediate action to change the VA overpayment system, which generated and then collected $1.6 billion
MANCHESTER, NH - Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) released the following statement in response to the announcement today of the opening of an impeachment inquiry:
WASHINGTON, DC - “I am deeply concerned that the Administration is blocking leaders in the intelligence community from providing Congress with a whistleblower complaint that the Inspector General has determined to be both an ‘urgent concern and credible,’” said Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01). “Congress has a constitutional duty to provide ov