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December 16, 2025

On Friday Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Ranking Member of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity,  House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Ranking Member Mark Takano (CA-39), Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal (CT), and Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) sent a third

Issues:Veterans
December 11, 2025

Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) introduced three bills to address per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) contamination and hold polluters accountable: his bicameral, bipartisan Clean Water Standards for PFAS Act with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) and Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), the bipartisan 

December 11, 2025

Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) helped pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act (PAWA), bipartisan legislation to repeal a presidential executive order that stripped union rights from roughly 1 million federal workers.

December 11, 2025

Yesterday Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Congressman Michael Rulli (OH-06), and Congressman Greg Stanton (AZ-04) introduced the Continuous Skilled Nursing Quality Improvement Act of 2025, which would modernize Medicaid’s approach to continuous skilled (private duty) nursing, remove outdated provider red tape, and mandate that the Secretary of Health and Human Services convene a working group to establish national quality stan

Issues:Health Care
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December 10, 2025

Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) and Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander (NH-02), with a bipartisan coalition of 38 total House Members, introduced the CommonGround for Affordable Health Care Act based on the bipartisan health care framework they unveiled last week.

Issues:Health Care
December 10, 2025

Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), founding member of the bipartisan Public Shipyard Caucus, voted to pass the bipartisan FY26 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes language based on his legislation, the Protecting Public Naval Shipyards Act, to protect the civilian workforce at America’s four public shipyards, including the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, from the Trump Administration’s reckless hiring freezes and mass layoffs.

December 10, 2025

Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Ranking Member of the Economic Opportunity Subcommittee of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, led a bipartisan group of more than 40 members in sending a letter to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, the U.S.

Issues:Veterans
December 8, 2025

Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) joined Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, and Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) in welcoming more than $9 million in federal funding for Granite State projects through the Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC). Today’s awards are funded through NBRC’s Fall 2025 Catalyst, Timber for Transit and Forest Economy programs.

December 8, 2025

Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), founding member of the bipartisan Public Shipyard Caucus and representative for the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, announced that provisions enacting his bipartisan Protecting Public Naval Shipyards Act were included in the text of the FY 2026 National Defense Authorization Act

December 5, 2025

Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) joined Congresswoman Andrea Salinas (OR-06) and 27 of his colleagues in urging the Bureau of Prisons to immediately restore the cancellation of the collective bargaining agreement between the Bureau of Prisons and its employees represented by the American Federation of Government Employees Council of Prison Locals 33.