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Christopher Pappas
DWon the General, 2022 New Hampshire U.S. House District 1
New Hampshire U.S. House, District 1 (2019 - Present)
United States House of Representatives (2019 - Present)
To be claimed
Member, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Vice Chair, Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation
Member, Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management
Member, Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity
Member, Subcommittee on Highways and Transit
Chair, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Veterans' Affairs)
Member, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
Member, Veterans' Affairs
1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-choice
1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare?
- Yes
1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Yes
1. Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct?
- No
Do you support increasing defense spending?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes
2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- No
3. Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19?
- Yes
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)?
- Yes
2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- Yes
1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- Yes
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- No
2. Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19?
- Yes
1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- No
2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- No
1. Should the United States use military force to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a weapon of mass destruction (for example: nuclear, biological, chemical)?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts?
- Unknown Position
Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)?
- Yes
1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer
2. Abortions should always be legally available.
- X
3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- No Answer
4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
- No Answer
5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- No Answer
6. Eliminate public funding for abortions and public funding of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Education (Higher)
- Slightly Increase Funding
2. Education (K-12)
- Slightly Increase Funding
3. Environment
- Maintain Funding Status
4. Health care
- Slightly Increase Funding
5. Law enforcement
- Maintain Funding Status
6. Transportation and Highway infrastructure
- Slightly Increase Funding
7. Welfare
- Maintain Funding Status
8. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
9. Alcohol taxes
- Maintain Status
10. Business enterprise taxes
- Eliminate
11. Business profits taxes
- Maintain Status
12. Gasoline taxes
- Slightly Increase
13. Inheritance taxes
- Maintain Status
14. Statewide property taxes
- Greatly Decrease
15. Tobacco taxes
- Slightly Increase
16. Vehicle taxes
- Maintain Status
17. Should Internet sales be taxed?
- No
18. Should New Hampshire implement a statewide income tax?
- Undecided
19. Should New Hampshire implement a statewide sales tax?
- Undecided
20. Other or expanded principles
- Yes
1. Do you support the limiting the number of terms for New Hampshire governors?
- No
2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for New Hampshire state senators and representatives?
- No
3. Individual
- Yes
4. PAC
- Yes
5. Corporate
- Yes
6. Political Parties
- Yes
7. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes
8. Do you support partial funding from state taxes for state level political campaigns?
- Undecided
9. Do you support voting on-line?
- No
10. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes?
- Yes
11. Do you support prohibiting the reporting of media exit polling results until all polling locations in New Hampshire are closed?
- Undecided
12. Do you support allowing slot machines at New Hampshire racetracks to increase state revenue?
- Yes
13. Should New Hampshire recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- Yes
14. Should New Hampshire restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
- Undecided
15. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
- X
2. Support contracting with private sector firms to build and/or manage state prisons.
- No Answer
3. Support the use of the death penalty in New Hampshire.
- No Answer
4. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X
5. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
- No Answer
6. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X
7. Decriminalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.
- X
8. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- No Answer
9. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- No Answer
10. Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation or disability be prosecuted as hate crimes.
- X
11. Ban the use of racial profiling by law enforcement officers.
- X
12. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- X
13. Increase state funding for additional security of critical infrastructure against terrorist attacks.
- X
14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- No Answer
2. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any participating school (public, private, religious).
- No Answer
3. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- X
4. Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
- X
5. Support teacher testing and reward teachers with merit pay.
- No Answer
6. Support eliminating Native American mascots from public schools.
- X
7. Support displaying the Ten Commandments in public schools.
- No Answer
8. Endorse teacher-led voluntary prayer in public schools.
- No Answer
9. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- No Answer
10. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- X
11. Increase state funding to expand Head Start programs.
- X
12. Increase state funding to expand public kindergarten programs.
- X
13. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- X
14. Support age-appropriate sexual education programs that teach about abstinence, contraceptives and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- X
15. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- No Answer
16. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers or teach skills needed in today's job market.
- X
2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector to encourage investment and economic expansion.
- No Answer
3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding or relocating businesses.
- X
4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for their employees.
- X
5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children of low-income working families.
- X
6. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
7. College and university admissions
- Yes
8. Public employment
- Yes
9. State contracting
- Undecided
1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X
2. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused or abandoned.
- X
3. Do you support state funding for open space preservation?
- Yes
4. Should state environmental regulations be stricter than federal law?
- Yes
5. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Ban the sale or transfer of semi-automatic guns, except those used for hunting.
- X
2. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- X
3. Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
4. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
5. Support the four-year license requirement to carry concealed weapons in New Hampshire.
- No Answer
6. Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
- X
7. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- X
8. Require a license for gun possession.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms or state-funded care where necessary.
- X
2. Transfer more existing Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
- No Answer
3. Limit the amount of damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- No Answer
4. Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
- X
5. Support patients' right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied by their HMO.
- X
6. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer
7. Legalize physician-assisted suicide in New Hampshire.
- No Answer
8. Increase state funding for training health workers to recognize and respond to the release of biological agents.
- X
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support current time limits on welfare benefits.
- No Answer
2. Increase employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- X
3. Provide tax incentives to businesses that hire welfare recipients.
- X
4. Provide child care for welfare recipients who work.
- X
5. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- X
6. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
- No Answer
7. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
- No Answer
8. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to expand state services to include the working poor.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
In a total of seventy-five (75) words or less, please explain what your two main legislative priorities will be if elected. Please explain how you would obtain any additional government funding needed to implement these priorities.
- No Answer
1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-choice
1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- Yes
2. In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Yes
1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes
2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- No
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Yes
1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
- Yes
2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- Yes
1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- Yes
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- No
1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- No
Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes?
- Yes
1. Should the United States use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a nuclear weapon?
- No
2. Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support?
- No
Latest Action: House - 06/13/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Tracker:Latest Action: House - 06/20/2019 Committee Agreed to Seek Consideration Under Suspension of the Rules.
Tracker:Latest Action: House - 06/12/2019 Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Tracker:By Rep. Chris Pappas On June 28, 1969 a group of young LGBTQ individuals walked into the Stonewall Inn, a safe haven for our community at a time when queer lifestyles were criminalized. They were unaware their resistance would catalyze a movement that has carried us to this day. In the 50 years since Stonewall, millions of Americans have come out and told their stories, often at great personal risk. Coming out and living openly has done more to change hearts, minds and laws than anything else. Although we continue to gather every June to recognize their courage and the tremendous strides we have made, we must not overlook that transgender individuals -- who threw the first bricks at Stonewall -- have been left behind on our uneven march towards equality. Over the last two years, the divisive policies of President Trump and his administration have targeted the trans community and spread unfounded fears. Their sustained efforts have sought to end their careers, take away their health care, and even define them out of existence. The Department of Defense has instituted a ban on transgender service members serving openly in our military, turning its back on an estimated 150,000 veterans and active service members who are on duty today keeping our nation safe. The Department of Health and Human Services is revoking coverage for critical health services, leaving 1.4 million transgender Americans in jeopardy of being denied the care they need to pursue healthy, productive lives. The Department of Education has rescinded protections for transgender students, putting at risk roughly 150,000 transgender students, 80 percent of whom face harassment in their schools. Furthermore, the administration proposed a rule that would allow federally-funded homeless shelters to turn away transgender individuals looking for a safe place to lay their heads at night, solely because of who they are. No one should be a second-class citizen in the United States. These policies violate the rights and dignity of our fellow Americans and betray the bedrock values we hold dear. I don't believe the attacks we are seeing from this administration are consistent with the inclusivity, decency, and fundamental fairness that are exhibited by the constituents I represent -- or by Americans more broadly. I am proud to be one of the eight out LGBTQ members serving in the House, the largest contingent ever. That's matched by a solid majority of unwavering allies -- all Democrats and a few Republicans -- who must continue to be a bulwark for LGBTQ rights at this critical moment. In May this bipartisan, pro-equality majority passed landmark legislation to ban discrimination against LGBTQ individuals in housing, employment, and public services. The Equality Act awaits action in the Senate, and it's long past the time to give full federal legal protection to all Americans regardless of who they are or who they love. A flurry of other bills have been filed in response to the administration's discriminatory policies. I am working to continue to build support for the SERVE Act which will ensure all who serve our country receive the health care benefits they have earned, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation. We have work to do, but I believe our allies in Congress and the American people are prepared to get us back on the path toward progress. This month, as a sea of rainbows wash over Main Streets in big cities and small towns, we should celebrate how far we've come and honor the heroes on whose shoulders we stand. But we must also recommit ourselves to living up to our nation's values and the hard work that it entails to make our union more perfect. We must never stop fighting until all Americans are free to live their truth. Congressman Chris Pappas serves New Hampshire's 1st District as his state's first openly-gay member and is a co-chair of the LGBTQ Equality Caucus.
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