Press Releases

M. Speaker - This is farm bill week. Today, the Senate Agriculture Committee is marking up their version of the Farm Bill and tomorrow the House Agriculture Committee will do the same. Although one bill is written by a Republican and the other is written by a Democrat, these two bills have one thing in common - they make hunger worse in America. Read more »

Today, the Teamsters, the Truck Safety Coalition, U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) and representatives of several families who have suffered death and injury as a result of truck crashes, held a news conference marking the re-introduction of legislation that Read more »

"I am glad that we as a community can finally put this saga behind us, and return our focus to helping the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings and their families to heal." Read more »

A video of U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern's 10th End Hunger Now Speech. Read more »

"This issue will be resolved. And I am continuing to work with everyone I can think of in an attempt to help resolve it. It may take a bit of time, because it's very complicated, but it will be resolved..." Read more »

United States Representative Jim McGovern announced two federal grants from the Department of Health and Human Services for Worcester organizations today. The Family Health Center of Worcester received $367,630 to continue funding of their Health Center Cluster, while a study at Clark University on Postpartum Mental Health among Visible and Invisible Minority Women will be funded for $718,722 over the next three and a half years. Read more »

Today, at a press conference to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the award of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction to Ernest Hemingway, the U.S. Finca Vigía Foundation (FVF), under an agreement with the Cuban Council of National Heritage, announced that it has supported the digitization of 2,000 new images of materials relating to Hemingway. Read more »

"I know that emotions are running high around this issue. I am in regular contact with the appropriate authorities in an attempt to find a resolution to this situation as quickly as possible. Our focus needs to remain on the victims of the bombings and their families." Read more »

Ten years ago, crimes by the Government of Sudan against its own people in Darfur were just beginning. The world witnessed the burning of villages, poisoning of water, murder, rape, brutal assault, and the deliberate forced displacement of entire village. Read more »

We can't ignore the fact that there are more than 16 million kids in America who are food insecure - quite simply, that means more than 16 million children went hungry in 2011. Read more »