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Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) announced $9,786,943 in federal funds for Manchester-Boston Regional Airport and Lebanon Municipal Airport.

U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that funds the Department of Justice (DOJ), announced today with U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and U.S. Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) that New Hampshire will receive $500,000 through DOJ's Community Oriented Policing (COPS) Hiring grant program. The COPS Hiring program supports state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies' ability to hire, preserve and/or rehire law enforcement officers and increase community policing efforts.

Today, after voting to censure Congressman Paul Gosar (AZ-04), Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) issued the following statement:

Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) will award New Hampshire $8,360,978 in State Tourism grants. The funding was allocated through the American Rescue Plan, which Pappas supported. The funding will support marketing, infrastructure, workforce and projects to boost business and travel.

Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) joined President Joe Biden and other state and local officials at the Pemigewasset River Bridge in Woodstock, New Hampshire to celebrate the robust federal investments in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which was signed into law by President Biden yesterday.

U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01), a member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, announced that the City of Manchester will receive $25 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation to transform its South Millyard area and improve the movement of people and goods at the center of the Queen City.

Today, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, issued the following statement after President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law:

With cold weather arriving in New Hampshire and energy prices rising, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) has called on the Biden Administration to take swift action to lower costs for families and communities this winter. In a letter with other members of the New England Congressional delegation, Pappas called on the president to take action to lower energy costs for families, including releasing inventory from the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve (NEHHOR) and Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).