WASHINGTON, DC—Representative Jim McGovern (MA-02) and Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) sent a bicameral letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) urging it to ensure federal crop insurance policies are supporting New England growers. The letter is a follow-up to a successful effort last year that halted specific proposed changes to apple crop insurance by USDA’s Risk… Read more »
“Here’s how I voted on this week’s package of national security bills—and why.
“Ukraine: Congress should provide long-overdue aid to help the Ukrainian people repel Russia’s illegal invasion. They did not choose this conflict—Putin did. He is a bully who acts with total disregard for human life—jailing his critics, murdering opposition leaders, and attempting to destroy democracy in… Read more »
Washington, D.C.—Today, United States Representatives James P. McGovern (D-MA) and Young Kim (R-CA) introduced a new congressional resolution in support of the decades-long struggle of the Tibetan people, whose human rights are constantly under threat from the government of the People’s Republic of China. The resolution recognizes the 65th… Read more »
U.S. Congressman James P. McGovern (MA-02) will be joined at President Biden’s March 7th State of the Union address by Shrewsbury resident and Vietnam War Veteran Ronald Roy.
Mr. Roy is a U.S. Air Force Veteran who served from 1969 to 1973 as an aircraft maintenance specialist. During the final years of his service, while in Thailand as a C-130… Read more »
WASHINGTON–Today, Congressman James P. McGovern (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee, voted to finalize $21,376,031 in funding for local projects in Central and Western Massachusetts. McGovern secured the funding for Massachusetts’s 2nd District through the FY2024 appropriations process. It will help support… Read more »
WORCESTER, MASS.—Today, Congressman James P. McGovern (D-MA), Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee, released the following statement expressing his frustration and disappointment at FEMA’s recommendation to deny disaster relief for Leominster, and recommitted himself to fighting for the resources the city deserves to recover from September’s… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Representatives James P. McGovern (D-MA), Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus Poverty Task Force; Barbara Lee, Chair of the House Democratic Caucus Poverty Task Force; Cori Bush, Co-Chair of the Congressional Caucus on Homelessness and Vice Chair on Criminalization of the Poverty Task Force; and Rep. Bobby Scott, Ranking Member of… Read more »
WASHINGTON—Yesterday, Representative James P. McGovern (MA-02), Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee and Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, and Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced the Human Rights Defenders Protection Act of 2024—cosponsored in the U.S. House by Representatives Jamie… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Representatives James P. McGovern (D-MA), Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee and Co-chair of the Cystic Fibrosis Caucus, and John Rutherford (R-FL), Co-chair of the Crohn’s and Colitis caucus, led their colleagues in introducing legislation to remove barriers to access for all Americans who require medically necessary foods to lead healthy… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC—Today, Representatives Jim McGovern (MA-02) and Jamie Raskin (MD-08) introduced the Tax Relief for Victims of Crimes, Scams, and Disasters Act, legislation to reinstate a tax deduction previously available to victims of scams, thefts, accidents and other personal casualty losses. After the 2017 Trump tax cuts repealed a critical tax deduction previously available to… Read more »
