Earmarks
Pappas proposed $21 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:
- $5 million to Town of Londonderry for “Londonderry, NH Exit 4A Public Water and Sewer Facility Extension”
- $4 million to The Granite YMCA for “Greater Londonderry, NH Granite YMCA Childcare Center Building Project”
- $4 million to City of Manchester for “City of Manchester, NH Christian Brook Sewer Separation Project”
View all requests and justifications on Pappas’s website »
View analysis and download spreadsheet from Demand Progress Education Fund »
These are earmark requests which may or may not survive the legislative process to becoming law.Most representatives from both parties requested earmarks for fiscal year 2024. Across representatives who requested earmarks, the median total amount requested for this fiscal year was $39 million.
Earmarks are federal expenditures, tax benefits, or tariff benefits requested by a legislator for a specific entity. Rather than being distributed through a formula or competitive process administered by the executive branch, earmarks may direct spending where it is most needed for the legislator's district.All earmark requests in the House of Representatives are published online for the public to review. We don’t have earmark requests for senators. The fiscal year begins on October 1 of the prior calendar year.Source: Appropriations.house.gov. Background: Earmark Disclosure Rules in the House
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Pappas is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below.Each dot is a member of the House of Representativespositioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Pappas has sponsored and cosponsoredfrom Jan 3, 2019 to Jun 28, 2024.See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Chris Pappas sits on the following committees:
- House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
- Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs subcommitteeRanking Member
Oversight and Investigationssubcommittees
- House Committee on Small Business
Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Workforce Developmentsubcommittees
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, Highways and Transit, Water Resources and Environmentsubcommittees
Enacted Legislation
Pappas was the primary sponsor of 10 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 8260 (117th): Faster Payments to Veterans’ Survivors Act of 2022
- H.R. 8017 (117th): VA Workforce Investment and Expansion Act of 2022
- H.R. 3944 (117th): Burial Equity for Guards and Reserves Act of 2021
- H.R. 2704 (117th): Improving VA Accountability To Prevent Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Act of 2021
- H.R. 2935 (117th): VA Beneficiary Debt Collection Improvement Act
- H.R. 2630 (117th): Extending Temporary Emergency Scheduling of Fentanyl Analogues Act
- H.R. 2991 (117th): Connecting America’s Active Transportation System Act
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Does 10 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Pappas sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Armed Forces and National Security (35%)Crime and Law Enforcement (18%)Health (13%)Environmental Protection (7%)Taxation (7%)Government Operations and Politics (7%)Transportation and Public Works (6%)International Affairs (6%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Pappas recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 8213: End Driving While Intoxicated Act of 2024
- H.R. 8212: End the Cyprus Embargo Act
- H.R. 8076: Clean Water Standards for PFAS Act of 2024
- H.R. 7984: Rural Small Business Resilience Act
- H.R. 7878: Ensuring Equity for Firefighters Act
- H.R. 7674: To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish the Advisory Committee on …
- H.R. 7675: PFAS Research and Development Reauthorization Act of 2024
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
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Voting Record
Key Votes
Pappas voted No
H.R. 4763: Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act
Passed 279/136 on May 22, 2024.
Pappas voted Yea
H.R. 6572: Deploying American Blockchains Act of 2023
Passed 334/79 on May 15, 2024.
Pappas voted Yea
H.Res. 1160: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8034) making emergency supplemental appropriations to respond to the situation in …
Passed 316/94 on Apr 19, 2024.
Pappas voted Yea
H.Res. 914: Censuring Representative Jamaal Bowman.
Passed 214/191 on Dec 7, 2023.
Pappas voted Aye
H.Res. 398: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2494) to make the assault of a law enforcement officer a …
Passed 222/203 on May 16, 2023.
Pappas voted Nay
H.Con.Res. 30: Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove all United States Armed …
Failed 102/321 on Apr 27, 2023.
Pappas voted Yea
H.R. 185: To terminate the requirement imposed by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for proof …
Passed 227/201 on Feb 8, 2023.
Pappas voted Yea
H.R. 7900: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023
Passed 329/101 on Jul 14, 2022.
Pappas voted Nay
H.R. 3617 (117th): Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act
Passed 220/204 on Apr 1, 2022.
Pappas voted Nay
H.R. 3884: MORE Act of 2019
Passed 228/164 on Dec 4, 2020.
Pappas voted No
H.R. 5377: Restoring Tax Fairness for States and Localities Act
Passed 218/206 on Dec 19, 2019.
Missed Votes
From Jan 2019 to Jun 2024, Pappas missed 17 of 3,011 roll call votes, which is 0.6%.This isbetter thanthe median of 2.1%among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving.The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
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Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Office of the Clerk, House of Representatives for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
