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Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) took a tour of Laconia High School’s Huot Career and Technical Center Thursday afternoon. Led through the campus by Huot Director David Warrender, Pappas met with instructors from a variety of programs offered there. Following the hour-long tour, Pappas spoke with Lakes Region Community College President Patrick Cate and representatives from the Taylor Community in a meeting closed to the media.
PORTSMOUTH — U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas met with city officials Wednesday to talk about what he sees as missteps by the Trump administration that are affecting federal funding for local communities.
The Democratic 1st District congressman told city officials that “as so much pressure is being put on local taxpayers, on local leadership, we need to make sure the federal government is a good partner that you can count on.”
Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) met with New Hampshire’s First District’s 2024 Congressional App Challenge winners, Nicholas Gladu, Daniel Sabalakov, Joshua Kelly, and John Tobin of Portsmouth High School, and presented them with an award. This team of students created an app program, titled “Clarity Extension”, designed to make resources on the internet more accessible.
Following the news that House and Senate Republicans have released drafts of their budget plans, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) held a roundtable with Betsy Burtis, COO of Amoskeag Community Health, Jake Berry, VP of Policy at New Futures, Judith Jones, Healthy Aging Policy Coordinator at New Futures and Policy Advisory for New Hampshire Healthy Aging, Patricia Carty, CEO of the Mental Health Cente
Every year, about 1 million visitors hit the slopes to ski or snowboard in New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest, according to the National Forest Service.
Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) and Congressman Ken Calvert (CA-41) introduced the HEARTS Act (Humane and Existing Alternatives in Research and Testing Sciences Act), bipartisan legislation encouraging the use and development of humane alternatives to animal testing experiments funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
This week Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) andCongressman Troy Downing (MT-02) reintroduced the Expanding Access to Capital for Rural Job Creators Act. This bipartisan legislation would require the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation to report on capital access issues faced by rural small businesses.
Today Representatives Chris Pappas (NH-01) and Harriet Hageman (WY-AL) introduced the bicameral, bipartisan Postal Operations Stay Timely And Local (POSTAL) Act, which would prohibit the United States Postal Service (USPS) from consolidating, closing, or downgrading a processing and distribution center if it would leave a state without one or negatively impact mail delivery across a state.
Last week Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) joined Congressman Joe Neguse (CO-02) and Congressman Blake Moore (UT-01) in reintroducing bipartisan legislation to support ski areas across the country.
Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) and Congresswoman Laurel Lee (FL-15) introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Overcoming Prevalent Inadequacies in Overdose Information Data Sets (OPIOIDS) Act which will assist law enforcement in collecting information on fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances.