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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.

Today, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) helped pass H.R. 6448, the Invest to Protect Act, H.R. 5768, the VICTIM Act, H.R. 8542, the Mental Health Justice Act of 2022, and H.R. 4118, the Break the Cycle of Violence Act.

Today, Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) helped pass the Presidential Electoral Count Reform Act in the House to secure the process of casting and counting electoral votes and provisions in the presidential transition process. This legislation would reform the Electoral Count Act to ensure that Congress counts the votes as required by the Constitution.