Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), joined by 73 members of Congress, sent a letter to President Obama urging him to remain committed to defeating Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Read more »
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) joined Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep. James McGovern (D-Mass.) in sending a letter to President Obama calling on the Pentagon to stop using cluster munitions with high failure rates.
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July 16, 2013
Dear President Obama,
We write to request that your Administration undertake a review of the Department of Defense’s (DOD) policy on cluster munitions.
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Dear Mr. President,
I write to express my strong support for your April 30th statement renewing your commitment to close the detention center at the Guantánamo Naval Base in Cuba.
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McGovern Statement on the Attack in Benghazi
-Today, the American people stand united in our grief over the senseless murder of four of our bravest public servants. They represented the finest our county has to offer in their dedication to liberty, justice, and democracy for all.
These American diplomats gave their lives while working for a more stable and secure region; we… Read more »
James P. McGovern (MA)
5-Minute Special Order
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
TOO SILENT ON SUDAN
M. Speaker, once again, the world is standing by, silent and passive, while the Government of Sudan wages war on its own people.
We have been here before, M. Speaker, when hundreds of thousands of people perished in Darfur before the international community finally woke up and… Read more »
Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Co-Chairmen Condemn Massive Human Rights Abuses by the Syrian Government and Call on the United Nations to Place Strong Pressure on the Assad Regime to Stop the Violence
Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Co-Chairmen James P. McGovern (D-MA) and Frank R. Wolf (R-VA) today strongly condemned the Syrian government for continuing to commit massive… Read more »