Member of Congress · 119th Congress
James P. McGovern
James McGovern is a Democratic U.S. representative from Massachusetts, in Congress since 1997, who voted with most Democrats on 96% of the 119th Congress’s yes/no votes and has had 2 bills become law since 2013.
How we count: “Broke with party” is a yes/no roll call where the member voted against most of their own party on that vote (party as recorded; even splits not counted). “Pork: own share” splits each earmark shared by several members evenly among them.
5 most recent votes
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass — Retire through Ownership ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended — Water Resources Development Act of 2026Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended — Ratepayer Protection ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
- NayOn Passage — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection…Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
- NayOn Passage — PROOF ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
5 most recent bills
- H.R. 10685 Hong Konger Promise of Refuge ActOct 1, 2026 · Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
- H.R. 5439 Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Program Pilot ActSep 16, 2026 · Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 39 - 0.
- H.R. 10300 Big Tech Accountability ActSep 4, 2026 · Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the…
- H.Res. 1441 Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 9586) to deliver priority legislation.Jul 20, 2026 · Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
- H.R. 9586 Delivering Priority Legislation ActJul 17, 2026 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 1872 (115th) Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act of 2018Became law
- H.R. 4017 (111th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 43 Maple Avenue in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, as the "Ann Marie Blute Post Office".Became law
- H.R. 4152 (109th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 320 High Street in Clinton, Massachusetts, as the "Raymond J. Salmon Post Office".Became law
- H.R. 5333 (107th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4 East Central Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, as the "Joseph D. Early Post…Became law
- H.R. 2307 (106th) To designate the building of the United States Postal Service located at 5 Cedar Street in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, as the "Thomas J. Brown Post Office…Became law
- H.R. 6874 (110th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 156 Taunton Avenue in Seekonk, Massachusetts, as the "Lance Corporal Eric Paul…Became law
- H.R. 559 (107th) To designate the United States courthouse located at 1 Courthouse Way in Boston, Massachusetts, as the "John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse".Became law
- H.R. 6256 (117th) 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…Became law
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Committees
- House Committee on AgricultureNutrition and Foreign Agriculture
- House Committee on Rules — Ranking MemberRules and Organization of the House
Elections Rep. McGovern has won
Rep. McGovern has won 15 U.S. House elections (1996–2024). Of the contested races, margins ran from 7.6 to 56.7 points.
Full election history for this seat →
Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House V15 / U.S. Senate V8 (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-18; winners matched to member records by seat and term. Results run through the 2024 elections; nothing from 2026 is shown until it is certified. A margin is a fact about one election, never a score of how well a member represents anyone, and PORKER does not rank members by it.
How has Massachusetts’s 2nd district done while Rep. McGovern served?
2013 to 2021 in MA-2: typical household income was up 16% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 3.1 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was about the same.
Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Teal = district, oxblood = state, grey = U.S.
While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in Massachusetts’s 2nd district during McGovern’s time representing it (2013 to now). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.
Only one set of district lines is shown. MA-2 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022, and a redrawn district is a different place. So this card shows only the longest stretch on the same lines during the term, 2013 to 2021 (no 2020 yearly estimate), not the full 2013 to now.
Local offices
Offices in the district or state, as listed in a public-domain community file. The Washington office is in the Contact section above.
- Leominster office24 Church St., Room 27, Leominster, MA 01453
Hours: M-F 9-5:00pm
Phone 978-466-3552 · Fax 978-466-3973 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap) - Northampton office94 Pleasant St., Northampton, MA 01060
Hours: M-F 9-5:00pm
Phone 413-341-8700 · Fax 413-584-1216 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap) - Worcester office12 E. Worcester St., Suite 1, Worcester, MA 01604
Hours: M-F 9-5:00pm
Phone 508-831-7356 · Fax 508-754-0982 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Evidence
- File
- legislators-district-offices-2026-09-24-8d698e92.json, entries M000312-leominster, M000312-northampton, M000312-worcester (3 offices)
- Published at
- https://unitedstates.github.io/congress-legislators/legislators-district-offices.json
- File date
- September 24, 2026 (server “last modified”)
- Retrieved by PORKER
- October 16, 2026
- File SHA-256
8d698e92f8ebae3bdd387bfef239584164160e59d444ba1cbff46f32aa450f59- Licence
- CC0 1.0 (public domain)
Read this first. This list is kept up by volunteers and may be out of date. Confirm hours and addresses on the member’s official site, mcgovern.house.gov.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
119th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 37 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 37 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 22 | See the 22 → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 1 | See the 1 → |
| With a committee report listed | 0 | None listed |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 119th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
- Fields
- cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
- PORKER copy refreshed
- October 26, 2026 (nightly)
Read this first. These are counts of records Congress.gov lists. Many bills never get a CBO estimate or a report, so a zero is not a mark against a member. We never show this as a score.
Data as of Oct 26, 2026 (member stats) · latest recorded House vote Sep 16, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.