FINDING
The claims are mostly false. Sununu’s 68-vote figure relies on procedural votes and concurrent resolutions that had nothing to do with tax policy, and Pappas has rejected his congressional paycheck on multiple occasions during government shutdowns.
THE CLAIMS
Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Sununu claimed at his Sept. 8 primary election victory party and during a debate with his Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas, that “on 68 votes … Chris Pappas voted to raise taxes 68 times.” The Sununu campaign and National Republican Senatorial Committee have also claimed that Pappas voted to shut down the government 12 times but still collected a full paycheck each time.
WHAT WE FOUND
The claim that Pappas voted to raise taxes 68 times is essentially false. Many of the bills Sununu cites in the claim passed Congress with bipartisan support. Some also included tax-cutting measures and others were simply procedural votes that did not affect tax policy at all. In fact, of the 68 votes cited by the Sununu campaign, only 16 were actually on the final passage of a bill, making the vast majority of Pappas’s votes purely procedural in nature.
For example, Sununu cites three Pappas votes on the Inflation Reduction Act, a Biden-era bill that raised taxes on large corporations but also created tax credits meant to encourage green energy consumption. Pappas voted once to pass the final bill. The other two votes cited were procedural decisions — one vote on the rules of...
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