Reps. Markey, LaTourette, McGovern, Larson, Welch Call For Immediate Release of Home Heating Funds
With home heating fuel prices expected to rise this winter, bipartisan coalition of lawmakers sends letter to DHHS urging release of LIHEAP funding to help households prepare
With the Department of Energy (DOE) reporting an increase in the price for most heating fuels this winter,… Read more »
Joined by a range of federal and state officials, including USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan, U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern hosted his 2011 throughout the 3rd Congressional District on September 27th and 28th, visiting 8 local farms and conducting casual conversations and a roundtable discussion with area farmers to discuss issues of concern to the agriculture community.
-I learned… Read more »
Senators John Kerry and Scott Brown, along with Representatives Edward Markey, Barney Frank, Richard E. Neal, John Olver, John Tierney, Jim McGovern, Michael Capuano, Stephen F. Lynch, Niki Tsongas, and William Keating asked that heating assistance funding for families and seniors be maintained in the federal budget. Read more »
The rule before us today provides for the reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program through September 30, 2016. This program was established in 1968 in response to increasing Federal government spending for disaster relief. The NFIP was intended to alleviate some of the public's financial burden because the government covered losses generated by floods in the form of… Read more »
M. Speaker, we all know that too many Americans are unemployed. Too many Americans families are having trouble paying their energy bills. Too many of our manufacturing jobs have gone overseas to China and other countries.
Now, the Democratic Congress has brought bill after bill after bill to the floor to help American families weather these time economic times and make… Read more »
Senator John Kerry, Congressman Barney Frank and Congressman Jim McGovern today praised a declaration by the National Park Service that deals a major blow to the proposal to construct a Liquid Natural Gas terminal at Weaver's Cove in Fall River.
The decision was based on the fact that last spring the Taunton River was named a federal -Wild and Scenic River.- The river received this… Read more »
May 3, 2010
Water pipe rupture causing severe hardship for families, businesses
Senators John Kerry and Scott Brown, together with Congressmen Edward Markey, Barney Frank, Stephen Lynch, James McGovern, Richard Neal, John Tierney, Niki Tsongas, Michael Capuano, John Olver, and William Delahunt today thanked President Barack Obama for issuing a disaster declaration for… Read more »
March 25, 2010
U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) today announced that he has introduced legislation to restore the ability of states to play a necessary and vital role in the process of siting Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) facilities.
The bill (HR 4922) repeals a provision in the 2005 Energy bill that gave the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) the exclusive authority to site… Read more »
Federal, State, and Local leaders today hailed the decision by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to transfer $41.5 million in emergency funding from the Commodity Credit Corporation to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to support efforts to eradicate the invasive Asian Longhorned Beetle (ALB) from Massachusetts.
USDA also provided emergency funding of… Read more »
M. Speaker. By direction of the Committee on Rules I call up House Resolution 799 and ask for its immediate consideration.
For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentlewoman from North Carolina, Dr. Foxx. All time yielded during consideration of the rule is for debate only. I yield myself such time as I may consume. I also ask unanimous… Read more »
