Press Releases

WASHINGTON -- Today, Congressman James P. McGovern (D-MA), Chairman of the House Rules Committee, joined the Massachusetts Congressional Delegation, wrote to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) urging the USDA to immediately grant additional flexibility to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) and other Massachusetts meal providers as they… Read more »

WASHINGTON -- Today, Congressman James P. McGovern (D-MA), Chairman of the House Rules Committee, joined the Massachusetts Congressional Delegation in a letter urging the White House to approve the Commonwealth’s request for a declaration of a federal major disaster due to the state’s outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in accordance with the… Read more »

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman James P. McGovern (D-MA), Chairman of the House Rules Committee, joined the Massachusetts Congressional Delegation in a letter to the U.S. Census Bureau asking them, in the wake of campus closures, to allow colleges and universities to report on all their students using administrative data. The lawmakers urge the Census Bureau to grant… Read more »

WASHINGTON -- Today, Congressman James P. McGovern (D-MA), Chairman of the House Rules Committee, joined the Massachusetts Congressional Delegation in a letter to Congressional leadership urging them to prioritize substantial emergency financial support for students and institutions of higher education in the upcoming coronavirus disease (COVID-19) stimulus package.… Read more »

Massachusetts Hospitals Anticipating Shortages of Equipment Needed to Protect Frontline Workers from COVID-19 Read more »

WASHINGTON -- Today, Congressman James P. McGovern (D-MA), Chairman of the House Rules Committee, along with the entire Massachusetts Congressional Delegation sent a letter to Congressional leadership urging them to include robust funding for the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program in the COVID-19 stimulus package… Read more »

New Funding Would Help Commonwealth Address COVID-19 and Other Public Health Needs Read more »

WASHINGTON – Following a ruling that blocks the Trump Administration’s stricter work requirements for certain recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern (D-MA) issued this statement welcoming the nationwide injunction: “It is absolutely unconscionable that as the CDC is calling on people to stay home and avoid interactions… Read more »

Lawmakers urge USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue to Protect Hungry Americans Read more »

WASHINGTON – Today, House Rules Committee Chairman James P. McGovern (D-MA) joined Congresswomen Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) in introducing the Ensuring Emergency Food Security Act, new legislation to combat the economic impacts of the coronavirus by: • Temporarily increasing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits; • Blocking any funding from being used to implement Trump… Read more »