Press Releases

U.S. Rep. McGovern called for better accounting and oversight of U.S. Aid to Colombia's Department of Administrative Services in a floor speech this morning, as well as in a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cosigned by U.S. Rep. Janice Schakowsky. A copy of McGovern's remarks as prepared, and the letter are below. Read more »

Senators John Kerry and Scott Brown, along with Representatives Edward Markey, Barney Frank, Richard E. Neal, John Olver, John Tierney, Jim McGovern, Michael Capuano, Stephen F. Lynch, Niki Tsongas, and William Keating asked that heating assistance funding for families and seniors be maintained in the federal budget. Read more »

U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern joined House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson (CT) and other colleagues today, cosponsoring legislation intended to give the nation's top priority - job creation and economic growth - the same path forward as deficit reduction in Congress. McGovern cosponsored three measures that the Super Committee may choose to pursue that would provide different paths to the same goal - reducing unemployment and addressing our debt: Read more »

U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern joined Democratic colleagues in signing onto a letter by Rep. Cedric Richmond(LA-2) calling for there to be no budgetary offsets for emergency disaster funding. Read more »

"My thoughts go out to all of those affected by Hurricane Irene throughout the Third Congressional District, Massachusetts, and all of the East Coast, including those residents who remain without electricity. I will be working closely with federal, state, and local partners to ensure that recovery efforts in the district go as quickly and as smoothly as possible. -If I can be of… Read more »

U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA3) today announced that the City of Worcester Police Department will receive two grants totaling $252,537 in federal funding for law enforcement and public safety. Read more »

Congressman James P. McGovern (D) Massachusetts announced today that BioMedical Research Models Inc (BRM) has been awarded a two year STTR grant from the National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases (NIAMS) totaling $571,610 ($429,584 year 1 & $142,026 year 2). Read more »

A group of 14 bipartisan Members of Congress, led by U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern (MA), today sent a letter to Secretary of State Clinton urging the Secretary to "take all possible steps" required to provide humanitarian assistance to families in the insecure areas of central and southern Somalia, including through NGOS and the U.N. Read more »

Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Co-Chairs James P. McGovern (MA) and Frank R. Wolf (VA) today endorsed President Obama's directive aimed at both preventing mass atrocities and prohibiting human rights violators from the privilege of entering the United States. Read more »

There is something fundamentally wrong when a billionaire hedge fund manager pays a lower tax rate than his secretary; when Big Oil can make tens of billions in profits every quarter but still get sweetheart deals from the taxpayer; and when we are slashing funding for roads and bridges but allowing tax breaks for corporate jet owners to continue. Read more »