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McGovern, James P.

House · Massachusetts, District 2 · M000312Sign in to watch / set alerts
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Legislative activity across Congressesfactual — not a ranking
CongressSponsoredCosponsoredRecorded votesParticipation
119th · current66466098%
118th237991,21299%
117th6288898999%
116th551,16194699%
115th149461,19299%
Descriptive counts per Congress — sponsored/cosponsored measures, recorded votes cast, and participation (votes cast ÷ recorded, shown only where the denominator is ingested). This is not an effectiveness score, alignment, or rank. Recorded votes reflect ingested chambers (House member casts across the supported range; Senate member casts are not linked — see Coverage).
Service history5 Congresses of supported coverage
CongressChamberStateDistrictParty
119th · currentHouseMassachusetts2Democratic
118thHouseMassachusetts2Democratic
117thHouseMassachusetts2Democratic
116thHouseMassachusetts2Democratic
115thHouseMassachusetts2Democratic
Congress-specific facts from the authoritative source; current values are not applied retroactively.
Legislative activity · 117th Congress · historical · House
Participation
99%
989/997 cast
Sponsored
62
bills
Cosponsored
888
measures
Voting record on TQL-graded bills · 117th Congress

Grouped by the bill's grade. “Supported” = voted Yea; “Opposed” = voted Nay. These are facts about votes — not a score of the member.

Bill grade bandSupportedOpposedPresentNot voting
A/B-graded bills (0)0000
C-graded bills (0)0000
D/F-graded bills (0)0000
Recent recorded votes117th Congress
MeasureCastResultDate
ProceduralPresentPassed2021-01-03
HRES 1YeaPassed2021-01-03
HRES 8YeaPassed2021-01-04
HRES 8YeaPassed2021-01-04
HRES 8YeaPassed2021-01-04
HRES 8NayFailed2021-01-04
HRES 8YeaPassed2021-01-04
HR 22YeaPassed2021-01-05
ProceduralNayFailed2021-01-06
ProceduralNayFailed2021-01-07
HRES 38YeaPassed2021-01-12
HRES 38YeaPassed2021-01-12
Sponsored · 117th62
—Regarding consent to assemble outside the seat of government.hconres 1—Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Acthr 1155—For the relief of Irida Kakhtiranova.hr 2495—For the relief of Lucio Enrique Perez Ortiz, Dora Gonzalez Santizo, and Edvin Oriany Perez Gonzalez.hr 2496—Grandfamily Housing Act of 2021hr 3111—SOS: Sustaining Outpatient Services Acthr 3348—Medical Nutrition Equity Act of 2021hr 3783—HALT Act of 2021hr 3837—John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Reauthorization Act of 2021hr 4473—BRAIN TRAIN Acthr 4474—Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Acthr 4529—Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Demonstration Pilot Act of 2021hr 5370—National Security Reforms and Accountability Acthr 5410—To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide coverage for wigs as durable medical equipment under the Medicare program, and for other purposes.hr 5430—White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, Hunger, and Health Acthr 5724—Food Donation Improvement Act of 2021hr 6251—To ensure that goods made with forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China do not enter the United States market, and for other purposes.hr 6256—Healthy Breakfasts Help Kids Learn Act of 2022hr 6718—LUNCHES Act of 2022hr 6743—Promoting a Resolution to the Tibet-China Conflict Acthr 8365—Deerfield River Wild and Scenic River Study Act of 2022hr 8504—For the relief of Terence George.hr 9447—Supporting the goals and ideals of a National Move Over Law Day.hres 1052—Fixing the daily hour of meeting of the First Session of the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress.hres 11—Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States recognizes the mounting personal and financial burden of diet-related disease in the United States and calls on medical schools, graduate medical education programs, and other health professional training programs to provide meaningful physician and health professional education on nutrition and diet.hres 1118—Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2377) to authorize the issuance of extreme risk protection orders; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 7910) to amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for an increased age limit on the purchase of certain firearms, prevent gun trafficking, modernize the prohibition on untraceable firearms, encourage the safe storage of firearms, and for other purposes; and for other purposes.hres 1153—Expressing the commitment of the House of Representatives to building on the twenty years of success of the George McGovern-Robert Dole Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program.hres 1156—Embracing the goals and provisions of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.hres 1185—Providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the House amendment to the bill (S. 2938) to designate the United States Courthouse and Federal Building located at 111 North Adams Street in Tallahassee, Florida, as the "Joseph Woodrow Hatchett United States Courthouse and Federal Building", and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the Senate amendment to the House amendment to the bill (S. 2089) to amend the Families First Coronavirus Response Act to extend child nutrition waiver authority, and for other purposes; relating to consideration of the Senate amendment to the bill (H.R. 4346) making appropriations for Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022, and for other purposes; and for other purposes.hres 1204—Adopting changes to the standing rules, and for other purposes.hres 1230
Cosponsored · 117th888
—DISCLOSE Act of 2021hr 1334—Willie O’Ree Congressional Gold Medal Acthr 2249—Expressing support for the designation of the week of February 21 through February 25, 2022, as "Public Schools Week".hres 939—Expressing support for the designation of the week of February 22 through February 26, 2021, as "Public Schools Week".hres 144—National Women’s Hall of Fame Commemorative Coin Act of 2021hr 1648—Greatest Generation Commemorative Coin Acthr 1057—Officer Eugene Goodman Congressional Gold Medal Acthr 305—‘Six Triple Eight’ Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2021hr 1012—Fairness for Farm Workers Acthr 3194—Equal Pay for Equal Work Acthr 4934—Real Courts, Rule of Law Act of 2022hr 6577—CROWN Act of 2022hr 2116—Benjamin Berell Ferencz Congressional Gold Medal Acthr 6015—Cures 2.0 Acthr 6000—Lebanon TPS Act of 2021hr 6095—Historic Preservation Enhancement Acthr 6589—Cameroon TPS Act of 2021hr 5564—Extend Unemployment Assistance Act of 2021hr 5285—Working Dog Commemorative Coin Acthr 5232—Protecting Our Democracy Acthr 5314—FAIR Scoring Acthr 5018—Housing is Infrastructure Act of 2021hr 4497—Drug Policy Reform Act of 2021hr 4020—Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act of 2021hr 2811—Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, and for other purposes.hr 1835—Flexible Financing for Rural America Acthr 2244—Venezuela TPS Act of 2021hr 161—RESTAURANTS Act of 2021hr 793—Iran Hostages Congressional Gold Medal Acthr 1179—COREY Safety Act of 2022hr 8406
Campaign financefederal · source: FEC
FEC candidate H4MA03022 · MCGOVERN, JAMES P → (House MA) · linked deterministic
CycleReceiptsDisbursementsCash on hand
2024$1,097,317$1,070,532$394,164
2022$1,116,204$1,013,772$367,379
2020$1,056,342$1,093,205$264,946
2018$1,173,938$1,300,430$301,810
2016$933,894$879,240$428,301
1 authorized/associated committee · 55 reported independent expenditures. Full campaign-finance record →Reported campaign-finance facts about the linked FEC candidate. This is distinct from the legislative record above and implies nothing about how the member legislated — money and votes are not causally linked here.

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