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Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Co-Chair of the Equality Caucus, and Senator Edward J.
The New Hampshire delegation announced that the New Hampshire Department of Transportation will receive $20 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to support the General Sullivan Bridge Bicycle and Pedestrian Crossing project in Rockingham and Strafford Counties. This grant, which the congressional delegation supported, will be allocated through the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) grant program.
The News Hampshire delegation announced that the State of New Hampshire will receive $196.56 million for the deplo
On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court issued its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned the 50-year-old federal right to an abortion established under Roe v. Wade and upset decades of settled law. One year later, 25 million women live in states where abortion is now banned or more restricted than before the ruling was issued. Fourteen states have banned abortions outright in almost all cases.
Amid a wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation across the country, Congressional Democrats have reintroduced the Equality Act.
The bill would update existing federal civil rights legislation to explicitly ban discrimination against LGBTQ+ people on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in a number of areas, including employment, education, access to credit, housing, and public accommodations.
At a Wednesday news conference, Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA) (one of the bill’s lead sponsors) noted the timing of the Equality Act’s reintroduction.
Today Congressmen Chris Pappas (NH-01) and Kelly Armstrong (ND-AL) re-introduced the Promoting Rural Exports Act. This bill would formally establish the Rural Export Center under U.S.
Today the New Hampshire delegation announced that over $300,000 in Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) program funding is headed to the Chichester and Bartlett Fire Departments. The AFG program provides direct financial assistance to eligible fire departments to enhance the safety and training of firefighters.
Today, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), a member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, joined 15 bipartisan co-sponsors to help introduce the Warrior Call Day resolution, which would designate November 12, 2023, as National Warrior Call Day. On this date, all Americans, especially active-duty and retired servicemembers, would be encouraged to reach out to U.S.
Today Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Co-Chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus and New Hampshire’s first openly gay member of Congress, helped re-introduce the Equality Act in the 118th Congress. Pappas is an original co-sponsor of this legislation and fought to pass the bill last Congress.
Veterans will get a cost-of-living boost on their benefit payments next year equal to the annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustment now that President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan bill into law Wednesday requiring the raise.