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By SAMUEL GELINAS

WASHINGTON — The roller coaster ride last week over a down-to-the-wire congressional spending bill ended on a high note for U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern, who expressed victory that some $220 million in federal money will soon be in the hands of New England...

By SAMUEL GELINAS

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden has been in the giving spirit. In the past month, he went out of his way and against his word by pardoning his son Hunter, followed by an announcement that he would be pardoning a list of 39 others, and granting...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SPRINGFIELD — U.S. Rep. Richard Neal knows his accomplishments speak for themselves.As the former chair of the House Committee on Ways and Means and current ranking member, Neal helped pass the Inflation Reduction Act, Infrastructure Investment and...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SPRINGFIELD — Just as Nadia Milleron began to address the press on a recent afternoon, standing in front of bright yellow banners that read “Nadia Milleron for Congress,” the bells of the Springfield Courthouse rang out, as if announcing her campaign...

By GREG VINE

Cornelius Shea is quick to acknowledge that his campaign to unseat incumbent U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern this Nov. 5 would be considered a long shot.Shea, a 20-year Marine Corps veteran, is running as an independent, though he assisted his father on a...

By GREG VINE

U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern is wrapping up his 13th term in the U.S. House, but after nearly 26 years representing the 2nd Congressional District, he says he hasn’t tired of the job.McGovern, 64, the ranking member of the House Rules Committee, described...

By ALEXA LEWIS

EASTHAMPTON — The city is set to receive $960,000 from the federal government for much-needed water infrastructure upgrades along Route 10 in the coming months.The money, announced by U.S. Rep. Richard Neal in a visit to the city on Monday, will be...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

For the first time in his 27-year career in Congress, U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern had his remarks on the floor of the House of Representatives struck from the record on Wednesday, after he criticized former U.S. President Donald Trump for his numerous...

By TANISHA BHAT

The region’s paraeducators could receive additional support from the federal government when it comes to recruitment, training and retention as part of a bill proposed in Congress by Sen. Ed Markey.The bill — called the Preparing and Retaining All...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

An Amherst organization is behind a newly proposed constitutional amendment put forth by U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern that would reduce the influence wealthy donors and large corporations have on elections in the United States. The proposed joint...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

Calling the Republican Party “a joke” and referring to its MAGA faction as “wingnuts,” an exasperated U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern took to the floor of the House of Representatives Thursday night to accuse Speaker Kevin McCarthy of losing control of the...

By U.S. REP. JIM MCGOVERN

Last month, House Republicans brought to the floor H.R. 5 — a bill I call the “politics over parents” act, which would supercharge book bans like the ones Gov. Ron DeSantis has imposed on Florida and bring them to states across America, including here...

By Sydney Ko

Seven years. That’s how long Massachusetts, and the nation, have to meet an ambitious goal of eradicating hunger.It’s an ambitious goal, but one that advocates and politicians who work tirelessly to address hunger believe is within reach if momentum...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

HOLYOKE — Candidates running for the U.S. House seat in the 1st Congressional District filed campaign finance reports on Wednesday, offering the last look at their fundraising and spending before the Sept. 1 Democratic primary election.The quarterly...

By Kellie Mejdrich

WASHINGTON — District of Columbia leaders on Monday warned Congress to stay out of local issues and keep policy riders aimed at D.C. laws away from spending bills, a battle the District fights annually.High on their list this year? Maintaining a D.C....

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

NORTHAMPTON — Health care, Donald Trump and war were some of the topics of conversation when U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Worcester, visited 19 residents of Rockridge Retirement Community for an intimate conversation on Friday.Earlier in the day,...

By NANCY BENAC

WASHINGTON (AP) — This city knows how to do big hearings — even Titanic ones.Dramatic congressional hearings are something of a Washington art form, a rite of democracy carefully crafted for the cameras.Suspense is building as fired FBI Director James...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — With various appointments by President Donald Trump still not made and continued reversals and flip flops in the administration’s objectives, a sense of chaos and drama exists in the nation’s capital that Massachusetts congressmen...

By GAZETTE STAFF

Citing Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, U.S. Rep. James P. McGovern, D-Worcester, formally protested during a Joint Session of Congress certifying its results.“Today I was the first member of Congress to rise and formally object...