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MANCHESTER — The Manchester Police Department will use a $300,000 federal grant to purchase new technology that can identify the location of gunshots fired in the city within 60 seconds, U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H., has announced.
This earmarked grant that Pappas requested was within a federal budget bill the Congress passed last March. The Biden administration recently released funding for the MPD grant.
Today, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) and U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen announced the delivery of $752,000 for the Strafford County Sheriff’s Department to make needed upgrades to their radio technology. These funds were secured by Pappas and Shaheen in a legislative package to fund the government through fiscal year 2022.
Today, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) announced the delivery of $300,000 for the Manchester Police Department to fund the acquisition and implementation of gunshot recognition technology. These funds were secured by Pappas in a legislative package to fund the government through fiscal year 2022.
On Tuesday, October 4, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), Portsmouth Mayor Deaglan McEachern, and officials from the Small Business Administration visited Port City Pretzels. They toured Port City Pretzels’s facility, met with employees, and discussed the challenges small businesses continue to face including access to affordable housing, workforce shortages, and the importance of building an inclusive environment at work.
The New Hampshire delegation welcomes over $525,000 in federal funding to support the state’s development of a state-wide plan for digital equity and inclusion projects. This funding will be allocated through the State Digital Equity Planning Grant Program and administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Today, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) issued the following statement after voting for a continuing resolution to fund the U.S. government:
Today, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) released the following statement after the House failed to call a long-promised vote on legislation to ban stock trading by members of Congress:
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.