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Northeast Region Has Received 2nd-Lowest Allocation Despite Representing Highest Number of COVID-19 Cases Nationwide Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Rules Committee Chairman James P. McGovern (D-MA) spoke on the House Floor urging passage of an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which would authorize a 10% reduction in Pentagon spending. Read more »

John was a great man, but more importantly he was a very good man. He was a champion for justice and equality who challenged the conscience of our country and called America to a higher standard. I am humbled to have worked alongside him and heartbroken by his passing. Read more »

Washington, D.C. - Today, Congressman Jim McGovern helped announce $520,494 in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grants to support the reimbursement of personal protective equipment (PPE) at twenty Massachusetts fire departments.  Assistance to Firefighters Grants Supplemental (AFG-S) funding was established through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security… Read more »

America’s firefighters, including our military firefighters, put their lives on the line every single day to keep us safe – we owe it to them to make sure the equipment they use is free from toxic chemicals that could harm them,” said Congressman McGovern. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman James P. McGovern (D-MA), Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and a leading congressional advocate for human rights at home and abroad, has called on the government of Bahrain to free Mohamed Ramadan and Hussein Moosa. The two men were convicted and sentenced to death in 2014 on terrorism charges, despite stating they were tortured and… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Representatives James P. McGovern (D-MA), Chairman of the House Rules Committee and Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, and Mark Pocan (D-WI), Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, led a group of 94 Members of Congress urging Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to press the Colombian government to commit to peace and stop the… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Jim McGovern (D-MA) joined Reps. Dan Kildee (MI-05) and Rick Crawford (AR-01) and 70 House colleagues in sending a letter to House leadership calling for additional emergency funding in the next coronavirus aid bill for the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP), which helps to support fruit and vegetable incentive… Read more »

WORCESTER -- Today, Congressman James P. McGovern (MA-02), Chairman of the House Rules Committee, alongside Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced introduction of the bicameral Hastening Arms Limitation Talks (HALT) Act, legislation outlining a vision for a 21st century nuclear freeze movement. The HALT… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman James P. McGovern, Chairman of the House Rules Committee, Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, and a longtime proponent of peace in El Salvador, released the following statement after Spain’s National Court began the trial of two former Salvadoran military men for their alleged involvement in the massacre of six Jesuit priests and two lay… Read more »