Press Releases

Representatives Chris Pappas (NH-01), a member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, and Annie Kuster (NH-02), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, joined their Republican colleagues to sound the alarm about the recent announcement that a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), Express Scripts, will strip pharmaceutical access away from TRICARE patients and their families, a move tha

Today, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Chair of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs (HVAC), led the House of Representatives in passing his bipartisan legislation, the Strengthening Whistleblower Protections at the Department of Veterans Affairs Act, which will improve the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) policies and procedures to better protect VA whistleblowers and investigate claims of wrongdoing. 

Today, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) helped pass H.R. 3843, the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act, in the House of Representatives. This bipartisan legislation will improve funding for federal antitrust enforcement agencies, lower the burden placed on small businesses, make foreign adversarial interests in merger transactions more apparent, and protect the resources of state antitrust enforcers through changes to the multidistrict litigation process.

Yesterday, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Chair of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs (HVAC), delivered the following remarks urging the House to support his bipartisan legislation to improve the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) policies and protections for whistleblowers, the

The New Hampshire delegation celebrates the inclusion of $1 billion in emergency funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) in government funding legislation under consideration by the U.S. Senate.

This month, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), alongside U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and Representative Annie Kuster (NH-02) applauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s announcement that the agency is awarding $30 million to the New England Forestry Foundation (NEFF). This funding will support the implementation of climate-smart forest practices by forest landowners to protect the environment. 

Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), along with U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), applauded an announcement by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that the agency is awarding a $5.4 million grant to the City of Manchester to help protect families with small children from the dangers of lead-based paint exposure. 

The New Hampshire delegation announced that Southern NH Area Health Education Center (Southern NH AHEC), a program of Lamprey Health Care, has been awarded a nearly $3 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to support and train community health workers in rural and underserved areas in New Hampshire.