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U.S. Representative, Massachusetts 2nd district · Democrat

James P. McGovern

235 statements indexed, set against 676 recorded votes.

676 recorded votes

  • Voted for26739.5%
  • Voted against39157.8%
  • Did not vote152.2%
97.3%
of the votes they could cast
235
statements indexed
9,107
words on the floor

Turned up for 97.3% of the votes they could have cast, below the middle of the House, which is 97.5%.

In plain English

McGovern voted 97 times out of every 100 they could. That is less than the middle of the House, which is 98.

They vote the same way as Gerald E. Connolly more than anyone else. The two agreed 99 times out of 100.

Across the aisle they line up most with James C. Moylan. They agreed 65 times out of 100.

The Record prints their remarks under 8 headings more than once. The list below names them.

First took office
January 7, 1997
Terms served
15 terms in the House
Current term
January 3, 2025 to January 3, 2027
Born
November 20, 1959

Sources: Clerk of the House and congress-legislators.

What They Spoke On

Hunger is the recurring subject in McGovern's indexed remarks, with 18 under End Hunger Now and more under the Farm, Food, and National Security Act. Much of the remainder is the work of the Rules Committee: resolutions setting the terms on which the House considers Senate amendments, which is business rather than subject.

The business the Congressional Record printed their remarks under, counted, with the chamber's own procedure left out. It is what was before the chamber, which is not always what the member was addressing.

What Was Said, and What Was Done

235 statements quoted from the Congressional Record and set against James P. McGovern’s votes. The most recent are below, one from each item of business, each linking to what it is set against.

All 235 statements, with a search →

Counted from the record

What Their Votes Add Up To

Measures that reached a final vote, grouped by subject. A yes here means pass the thing, which is why the count leaves out motions to recommit, to table and to proceed: on those a no can be support. Which subject a measure belongs to is this site's reading, and every measure in every subject is listed. A subject below links to its own measures.

Voting With Their Party

On the 471 votes this Congress where a majority of Democrats took one side and a majority of Republicans took the other, James P. McGovern voted on 463 and was with the Democrat majority on 462 of them.

463 party line votes cast

  • With their party46299.8%
  • Against their party10.2%

Votes Against Their Own Party

Who They Vote With

In Their Own Party

Of the votes both took part in.

Voting Across the Aisle

The record itself

Where the Words Are

The Congressional Record marks James P. McGovern as speaking in 143 items of business across 72 sitting days of this Congress.

Many of those appearances are procedural: yielding time, a request to revise and extend, a call for the yeas and nays. The count comes from the Record's own speaker tagging, which is not complete, so a member may have spoken more often than it shows.

The eight most recent, each linking to that day's Record at govinfo.

Every Recorded Vote

All 676 recorded votes of the 119th Congress in which the Clerk of the House lists James P. McGovern. The most recent 4 below, each linking to the official record of that vote.

All 676 recorded votes, newest first →

Elsewhere in the Record

The other Massachusetts representatives in this Congress: Richard E. Neal and Lori Trahan.

How these records are gathered, and what they leave out, is set out on the Promise Tracker.