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DemocratChris Pappas
U.S. Representative · New Hampshire
New Hampshire's 1st district
U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
0 tracked promises
Running against
How they won their seat
Chris Pappas won the 2024 U.S. House election in New Hampshire (District 1) with 52.5% of the vote (218,577 votes).
- Chris Pappas · Democrat52.5%218,577
- Russell Prescott · Republican44.6%185,936
- Under Votes · Na2.8%11,678
- 2 Other Candidates0.1%371
Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.
Inferred legislative agendas
Chris Pappas has sponsored a variety of bills primarily focused on veterans' affairs, infrastructure, and public safety. Notable examples include the 'SAFEGUARD Veterans Act of 2026' and the 'Protecting Rural Telehealth Access Act.' His committee memberships include veterans' affairs and transportation. Focus areas (from the record): Veterans Affairs · Infrastructure · Public Safety · Rural Issues · Healthcare Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Pappas's legislative activities, making it impossible to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; There is no information on the politician's stated goals or positions; The record does not indicate the extent of constituent engagement or feedback. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Chris Pappas has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.
Showing 2026. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.
Activity in office
What Chris Pappas has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score.
- Votes cast
- 248
- Voted yea
- 136
- Voted nay
- 110
- Bills sponsored
- 21
Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.
Monthly voting activity
- Yea
- Nay
- Total
Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.
Vote attendance
Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bills sponsored over time
Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.
Independence
How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.
Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$581K12%
- Large individual (itemized)$3.0M63%
- PAC / committee$1.2M25%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Veterans' AffairsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — Coast Guard and Maritime TransportationOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — Water Resources and EnvironmentOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — Highways and TransitOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs — Disability Assistance and Memorial AffairsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs — Economic OpportunityOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
172 sponsored bills · finance on fileFacts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.
FEC 2026 cycle — raised $4,069,100, spent $3,774,742, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9759: To provide funding for programs and activities under the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act. ↗Jul 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9563: No Cashing In Act ↗Jun 30, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9105: SAFEGUARD Veterans Act of 2026 ↗Jun 2, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8565: ATIIP Reauthorization and Improvement Act ↗Apr 29, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8468: Protecting American Railroad Workers’ Jobs Act of 2026 ↗Apr 23, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8456: Rural Child Care Access Act ↗Apr 22, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8422: CLEAN Act ↗Apr 21, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8421: SERVE Act ↗Apr 21, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8348: To amend title 23, United States Code, with respect to the amounts States are guaranteed under the highway apportionment formula, and for other purposes. ↗Apr 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8229: Lower Grocery Prices Act ↗Apr 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8165: Protein for Every Plate Act of 2026 ↗Mar 30, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8120: Veterans Benefits Information Protection Act ↗Mar 26, 2026
Showing the 12 most recent of 172 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 307
- Nay
- 299
- Present
- 3
- Not voting
- 0
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Yea
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Present
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR139Nay
- HRES1423Nay
- HRES1423Nay
- HR8897Yea
- HR3106Yea
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Yea
- HRES1398Nay
- HRES1398Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Stated positions
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Disclosure
A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.
No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.
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