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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 »

Lawmakers Call on Pence to Take Specific Action to Support Massachusetts During COVID-19 Outbreak Read more »

WASHINGTON – Today, Rules Committee Chairman James P. McGovern helped introduce a new bill led by House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) to remove a bust of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney from public display in the U.S. Capitol, and replace it with a bust of Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall. Taney, the Maryland-born Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1836-1864, wrote… Read more »

Bill Urges Federal Agencies to implement a comprehensive strategy to prevent, address, and end violence against children Read more »