Platform published 2026-10-31
Pappas highlights breaking with Democratic leadership to force a House vote on banning congressional stock trading, taking on drug companies to cap insulin at $35, and taking on corporate polluters. His anti-corruption agenda says he takes no corporate PAC money, introduced the DISCLOSE Act and supports overturning Citizens United, and backs a congressional stock-trading ban, the No Getting Rich in Congress Act to strengthen lobbying disclosure and curb shadow lobbying by members, the president, the vice president, and spouses, Supreme Court ethics reform, his bipartisan CLEAN Act to codify the Office of Congressional Conduct, the Public Integrity in Financial Prediction Markets Act barring officials from trading on political prediction markets with inside information, the Fighting Foreign Influence Act's lifetime ban on former officials lobbying for foreign governments, an end to executive pay-to-play practices, and subpoenas of prediction markets to look for insider trading. His Tax Cuts and Lower Costs Blueprint would lower energy costs by cutting energy taxes, including an Energy Burden Tax Credit, protecting LIHEAP heating assistance, lowering utility bills for veterans and military families, defending clean energy tax credits, improving transmission, and suspending the federal gas tax. On health care, he cites helping cap insulin costs and enabling Medicare drug-price negotiation, and pledges to strengthen the Affordable Care Act, defend Medicare and Medicaid from cuts, expand telehealth, cut red tape for families and small businesses seeking coverage, and improve veterans' care, including building New Hampshire's first VA hospital and reducing claims backlogs.
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