Today, September 25th, as Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with President Obama at the White House, Congressman Jim McGovern (D-MA), Co-Chairman of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, will host a “Stateless” Breakfast to honor human rights defenders who have been imprisoned, intimidated, and silenced by the Chinese government.
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Today, Congressman Jim McGovern (MA-02), a senior House Democrat and co-chair of the bipartisan Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, released the following statement on the Colombian peace process:
This week marks a major step forward for peace with the historic agreement reached by the Colombian government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) negotiating teams. By… Read more »
Today Congressman Jim McGovern (MA-02) joined local leaders for Worcester’s 40th Anniversary Pride Parade. The event celebrates the progress the LGBT equality movement has achieved – including this year’s Supreme Court decision legalizing marriage equality in all 50 states – and the role of Massachusetts as a trailblazer in the movement. Click here for… Read more »
Tomorrow, Congressman Jim McGovern (MA-02) will join local leaders for Worcester’s 40th Pride Parade. The event will celebrate the progress the LGBT equality movement has achieved – including this year’s Supreme Court decision legalizing marriage equality in all 50 states – and the role that Massachusetts has played as a trailblazer in the movement.
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HAVANA, CUBA – Today Congressman Jim McGovern (MA-02) released the following statement after joining U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and other members of Congress for the official re-opening of the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba.
“Today I was proud to join Secretary Kerry for the re-opening of the U.S. Embassy here in Cuba. This marks the beginning of a new chapter in… Read more »
Today Congressman Jim McGovern (MA-02) announced that tomorrow, August 14, he will join U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and other members of Congress for the official re-opening of the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba. This follows the re-opening of the Cuban embassy in Washington, D.C. in July and President Obama’s December 2014 announcement of the normalizing of U.S.-Cuba… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jim McGovern (D-MA), a senior House Democrat and co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, joined Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) to announce a bipartisan push to block the sale or transfer of certain arms to Bahrain until the State Department certifies that Bahrain has fully implemented all of the recommendations by an independent oversight… Read more »
On Monday, Congressman Jim McGovern (MA-02), a senior House Democrat and co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, led 65 Democrats in a letter to the U.S. State Department to support the ongoing peace process in Colombia and to urge all parties at the negotiating table in Havana, Cuba to put victims’ rights and needs at the center of talks.
Addressed to U.S. Secretary of… Read more »
Congressman Jim McGovern (D-MA), a senior House Democrat and leading champion of normalizing diplomatic relations with Cuba, released the following statement on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s call today for Congress to end the U.S. trade embargo with Cuba:
“Americans are ready for a 21st century approach to Cuba and the re-opening of embassies in Washington and… Read more »
There is a bipartisan, bicameral effort underway in Congress to encourage the United States and the international community to keep the pressure on wanted war criminal Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) who have been terrorizing Central Africa for over two decades.
U.S. Representatives Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Joseph Pitts (R-PA), who are co-chairmen of the Tom Lantos… Read more »
