"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.
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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 »
Mr. Speaker, this process has become a joke.
It is a disgrace.
It's an insult to the American people.
I would say to my friends on the other side of the aisle that now is the time to act like grownups. This is the time to put our country before your political party. This is the time put our country before the Tea Party. This is the time to do what's right.
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Currently, some 11.5 million people across East Africa urgently need food aid, medical supplies and care. More than 130,000 Somali refugees have left their country for refugee camps along the borders of Ethiopia and Kenya. They arrive exhausted and physically depleted. News reports estimate that about 1300 Somali refugees arrive in northern Kenya every single day. They join already overcrowded camps, and stress the ability of the Kenyan government and humanitarian agencies to provide food, water, emergency care and shelter. Read more »
Today, U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern joined Reps. Ted Deutch (FL-19), Lloyd Doggett (TX-25), and Mark Critz (PA-12) and fifty-eight of their Democratic colleagues on a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to reject another payroll tax cut and instead consider alternative proposals that do not jeopardize Social Security's time-tested independent revenue stream. The bipartisan tax compromise passed last winter set a dangerous precedent by reducing employee contributions to Social Security and replenishing the Trust Fund with deficit spending from the general fund. Social Security was established with a dedicated revenue source to prohibit it from contributing to the budget deficit and to protect the retirement security of America's workers from politically motivated budgetary attacks. Read more »
