WORCESTER, MA – Congressman James P. McGovern (MA-02) on Friday sent a strongly-worded letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem demanding answers after the visas of dozens of international students at colleges and universities in Massachusetts’s Second Congressional District were revoked without notice, explanation, or due process. “I write to you wit... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, U.S. Representatives James P. McGovern (MA-02) and Jill Tokuda (HI-02) reintroduced a House resolution urging the United States to return to the negotiating table on nuclear disarmament and to lead a global effort to reduce and eliminate nuclear weapons. The resolution, H. Res. 317, reaffirms the United States’ moral and strategic obligation to prevent nuclear war and calls... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, Congressman Jim McGovern (D-MA), Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee and a Senior Member of the House Agriculture Committee, led 38 House Democrats in a letter to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins demanding answers after the Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program was abruptly terminated without Congressional consultation or notice, harming farms and scho... Read More »
** VIDEO: Press Conference Announcing The Hunger Free Future Act ** WASHINGTON, D.C.—On Tuesday, Representatives James P. McGovern (D-MA), Shontel Brown (D-OH), and Jahana Hayes (D-CT) introduced The Hunger Free Future Act to protect the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) from backdoor benefit cuts. The legislation has 56 cosponsors in the House. The Hunger Free Future Act requires t... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Representative James P. McGovern (D-MA) and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) have written to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking him to restore funding to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that monitor and advocate for human rights in China. The letter appeals to Secretary Rubio as a former Chair (2017-2018) of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)—a bipartisan a... Read More »
LEOMINSTER, MA – As Donald Trump prepares to deliver his first address to Congress since returning to office, Congressman Jim McGovern (D-MA), one of Congress’s leading voices in the fight against hunger, delivered a powerful speech from Ginny’s Helping Hand, a local food pantry in Massachusetts, calling out Trump and Republicans in Congress for their attacks on food assistance programs. “Tomorrow... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Representative James P. McGovern (D-MA), Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Committee and Ranking Member of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, wrote a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking him to rescind the appointment of a Uyghur genocide denier to a top position at the United States Department of State. “There are few foreign policy issues that ha... Read More »
WASHINGTON—Today, Congressman James P. McGovern, Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee and Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, issued the following statement after President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order blocking funding for UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees: "Cutting off UNRWA funding is an attack on innocent Palestinian famili... Read More »
WASHINGTON—Congressman James P. McGovern, Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee and Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, issued the following statement regarding President Donald Trump’s new Executive Order withdrawing the United States from the U.N. Human Rights Council: “Pulling out of the U.N. Human Rights Council is reckless and shameful. Instead of leading the fight again... Read More »
WASHINGTON—Today, 34 Members of Congress, led by Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee James P. McGovern (D-MA), and including Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Small Business Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), and Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus... Read More »
WASHINGTON—Congressman James P. McGovern, Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee and Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, released this statement at the conclusion of a congressional delegation to San Salvador, El Salvador: “I was deeply honored to join in commemorating the legacy of the six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter who were murdered in cold blood 35 y... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Representative James P. McGovern (D-MA), Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee and Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Committee, has led 64 of his colleagues in a letter to President Joseph Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling for the United States to push for Israel to allow unimpeded access for U.S. and international journalists. The constantly shifting... Read More »
(Washington, DC) – Victims of food stamp theft will continue to be reimbursed thanks to a provision in a stop-gap funding bill secured by a bipartisan group of lawmakers, the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act of 2025, passed in the U.S. House of Representatives today in a 341-82 vote, keeping the government funded – and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits flowing –... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representative Jim McGovern (MA-02), U.S. Representative Alma S. Adams, Ph.D. (NC-12), and U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced the Industrial Agriculture Conversion Act (IACA), which would allow farmers to voluntarily convert their on-farm infrastructure toward more climate-friendly uses with USDA conservation dollars. The IACA would use existing agricultural conse... Read More »
WASHINGTON—Today, Congressman James P. McGovern (D-MA), ranking member of the House Rules Committee and Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, released the following statement on the recent elections that have taken place in Venezuela: “What is at stake in Venezuela today is the most fundamental of democratic principles: the obligation to faithfully honor the will of the Venezuelan pe... Read More »
