Rep. James McGovern
Democrat • 3rd District, Massachusetts • 7th Term • Sworn In 1997
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Desperate Hours » Why has Nancy Pelosi flipped flopped on the ...
Democratic leaders said these changes were needed to make the legislative train run faster. "Congress has to accomplish things," said Massachusetts Rep. Jim McGovern of the Rules Committee. "This is designed to help us do just that." ..
Sweeping Health Care Plan Passes House - Talk Hot Trends Hit!
Many Democrats also credited Speaker Nancy Pelosi for snatching a victory that proved more difficult than many had predicted. "She really threaded the needle on it," said Representative Jim McGovern, Democrat of Massachusetts. ...
ambainny: Sweeping Health Care legislation passes house...thankyou ...
“She really threaded the needle on this one,” said Representative Jim McGovern, Democrat of Massachusetts. A critical turning point was the decision by Ms. Pelosi late Friday night to allow anti-abortion Democrats to try to tighten ...
Up-or-down vote on an amendment to block abortion funding approved ...
“I used to think that life was black or white, but the older I get the most gray it becomes,” liberal Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) told the panelists. “I find this amendment very, very uncomfortable.” Freshman Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper (D-Pa ...
House Will Take "Up or Down" Vote on Stupak Amendment, Threatening ...
“I used to think that life was black or white, but the older I get the most gray it becomes,” liberal Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) told the panelists of the House Rules committee as they debated whether to allow the amendment. ...
BLACK POLITICAL BUZZ....: Pelosi Allows Up-Down Vote On Amendment ...
Committee Vice-Chairman Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) presided over the panel while Chairwoman Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) hunkered down with Democratic leadership. The three women committee members refrained from voting on the rule that ...
The abortion deal
...with the move during debate late Friday night. "I find this amendment very, very uncomfortable," said Massachusetts Rep. Jim McGovern, a liberal Democrat on the Rules Committee. "If this goes to the Senate and comes back, it's going to be very difficu
House Democrats resolve abortion impasse - Kikil News
“I find this amendment very, very uncomfortable,” said Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Massachusetts. “I foresee for poor women in America, a return to the dark ages,” said Rep Alcee Hastings, D-Florida. Source: Related posts: ...
House Will Take Up-or-Down Vote on Stupak Amendment, Threatening ...
"I used to think that life was black or white, but the older I get the most gray it becomes," liberal Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., told the panelists of the House Rules committee as they debated whether to allow the amendment. ...
House Bill Wrong To Deny Abortion Coverage In Health Care Bill ...
The Democratic sources said people would be able to purchase riders with their own money for insurance that includes abortion coverage. “I find this amendment very, very uncomfortable,” said Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Massachusetts. ...
House Nears Passage of Health Care Reform - Swampland - TIME.com
“If they have the votes, they have the votes,” shrugged Rep. Jim McGovern, a Massachusetts Democrat. “If they don't they don't. Either way, it won't change my vote on final passage.” Added Rep. Joe Crowley, a New York Democrat, ...
FDL Action » Marcy Winograd: Jane Harman Profits From Anti ...
i don't understand (ok, i know i'm repeating myself a lot with that today). if the progressives have more to loose by not opposing it, then why aren't they? my rep (jim mcgovern) had a town hall by phone wednesday night (some details on ...
House Resolution Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of Jesuit ...
WOLA is pleased to see that H.Res. 761, introduced by Rep. Jim McGovern and 33 co-sponsors, was approved today in...
Miles Mogulescu: Speaker Pelosi: Please Stop Bullsh*ting Us on ...
Progressive leaders like Rep. Anthony Weiner are now calling the neutered public option in the House bill a "once in a lifetime reform," despite the fact that it has eliminated the very provision that the Progressive Caucus promised was .... Maz
FDL Action » Live Blog House Rules Committee – Health Care Reform
Quick Aside for selise: I note that your Rep., Jim McGovern, is apparently second in (Democratic) seniority on the Rules Committee behind Slaughter. I got a good look at/listen to McGovern during his commentary, and I can see why he's ...
FDL News Desk » Jim McGovern Sets Them Up, Knocks Them Down In The ...
jim mcgovern is my rep and in general i think he has done a pretty good job of representing us. unfortunately this is not one of those cases. he had a conference call town hall on this issue wednesday night, and you read my notes (and ...
Wonk Room » Rep. Virginia Foxx Suggests It's Better To Be ...
“More government paid insurance is going to increase the number of people going to the emergency rooms.” Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) responded, “I thank the gentlelady for making the case for keeping more people in this country uninsured. ...
House Adopts Know-Nothing Approach to Middle-East
... Ohio's Dennis Kucinich, Arizona's Raul Grijalva, Californians Lynn Woolsey and Barbara Lee and Massachusetts' Jim McGovern, as well as Republicans Ron Paul of Texas, Geoff Davis of Kentucky and Charles Boustany of Louisiana. ...
US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation: Is the “We Love Israel ...
Instead, we have a flawed resolution before us.” Rep. Jim McGovern criticized the resolution for “increasing the politicization and the polarization and the heated rhetoric so characteristic of the crisis in the Middle East.” ...
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Haven't found it yet but here's Rep. Lloyd Doggett, Texas and Rep. David Dreier, California, Rep Jim McGovern, Mass. The debates. High theater and also a window into the debate process. Found one– House Majority leader Hoyer, Maryland ...
FUCK EM AND FEED EM FISH-HEADS « BuelahMan's Redstate Revolt
Moreover, THE PITCHFORK neglected entirely such iconoclast pacifists as Rep Dr Ron Paul and Rep Walter Jones, Jr, who have the best anti-war voting record among all Republicans and most Democrats. ... In fact, other than myself and Schwartz , no writer at
Free Thought Manifesto: The Generals' Revolt
And Rep. Jim McGovern recently got 138 votes for an amendment that would have required the administration to declare its exit strategy. "The further we get sucked into this war, the harder it will be to get out of it," McGovern says. ...
FDL News Desk » That Strange Biofuels Rider In The House Manager's ...
sorta related: my congressmember, jim mcgovern, is having a telephone “town hall” tonight on the health insurance reform bill. any suggestions/requests for questions or comments? i'll check back later….. thanks! ...
After Afghan vote, an awkward task for Obama « Bao Viet Nam
“By all accounts, the election was not only a setback, it was a joke,” Representative Jim McGovern said on public broadcaster PBS. “Is this where we're going to put our money? Are our men and women going to die for this?” ...
Afghan Vote Has made awkward task for obama | Afghan Tribes
“By all accounts, the election was not only a setback, it was a joke,” Representative Jim McGovern said on public broadcaster PBS. “Is this where we're going to put our money? Are our men and women going to die for this? ...
Afghanistan: U.S. Policymakers See Potential Shift in Afghanistan ...
REP. JIM MCGOVERN: Well, President Karzai won by default. You know, this -- this whole election process was deeply flawed. We're told by Peter Galbraith that at least 30 percent of Karzai's vote was fraudulent. ...
Orange Uganda - Lifestyle » Archive » UN envoy warns Karzai of ...
Representative Jim McGovern, who wants Obama to set an exit strategy for Afghanistan, said that Karzai's re-election heightened his doubts. Related article: Karzai faces array of challenges. “Do we really think that there can be a happy ...
Some Progressives Getting It on Afghanistan
As the vets wait outside the office of Rep. Raúl Grijalva, a Democrat who co-chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Jake Diliberto, 27, recounts tales from the first skirmish with Vets For Freedom earlier in the morning. ...
Bill Totten's Weblog: The Generals' Revolt
And Representative Jim McGovern recently got 138 votes for an amendment that would have required the administration to declare its exit strategy. "The further we get sucked into this war, the harder it will be to get out of it", ...
Antiwar News: Who decides about war? Why not the people?
Congressman Jim McGovern's resolution asking the Pentagon to develop an exit strategy. But the generals who run wars, and the defense contractors who profit from them, want to keep U.S. troops on the ground there. And ...
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