50
James P. McGovern
Serving in office
Scheduled research active
Main board
Too little promise evidence has been reviewed. Treat this score as provisional.
This profile keeps a lifetime office and promise record. The trust score is designed to stay close to 50 until enough claims and evidence are reviewed.
Breakdown
- Delivered during the term promised: 0 x 1.0
- Delivered in a later elected term: 0 x 0.8
- Partial delivery: 0 x 0.4
- Failed by documented deadline: 0 x 0.0
- Excluded from denominator: pending 5, unverified 42, timing unknown 0.
- Historical coverage: not established.
- Disputed claims tracked separately: 0
- Reviewed promises in current record: 0
- Confidence: 0%
- Current claim count: 47
- Current evidence count: 216
Office History
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U.S. Representative
Massachusetts 2nd · current
Current federal elected office as of 2026; Congress.gov lists service through the 119th Congress. -
U.S. Representative
Massachusetts 2nd · current
Historical elected offices still need research. -
U.S. Representative
Massachusetts 3rd
Elected in 1996 and served beginning January 3, 1997; district renumbered after redistricting for the 113th Congress. -
Candidate for U.S. Representative
Massachusetts 3rd
Unsuccessful Democratic primary campaign for U.S. House; no federal office held from this campaign.
- I will continue to do everything I can to support unions in Congress and on the ground in Massachusetts.
- I will not take political donations that would corrupt my commitment to working people.
- I plan to meet with VA Secretary Denis McDonough and, if needed, President Biden to oppose closing the Northampton VA Medical Center in Leeds.
- I will continue to stand up to this authoritarian administration and fight like hell to bring down costs.
- I will continue to fight to protect affordable healthcare and lower healthcare costs.
- I will continue using House procedures to advance legislation that extends ACA tax credits and lowers healthcare costs.
- I will continue reintroducing and advancing a War Powers Resolution to rein in unauthorized military escalation with Venezuela.
- I will urge the Department of State to ensure that Foreign Terrorist Organization designations are used to keep the American people safe, not to influence elections or wage an illegal war against criminal organizations.
- I will request that the State Department provide Congress with all evidence regarding PCC and CV activities before deciding whether to designate them as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
- I will continue to work to strengthen U.S. engagement with the Central Tibetan Administration after the Dalai Lama.
- I will push for federal funding to make healthy food and good nutrition a core pillar of America's healthcare system.
- I will secure federal funding for community projects in Massachusetts's 2nd Congressional District.
- I will request the release of the names, nationalities, and immigration file numbers of every individual from the deportation flights still held incommunicado in CECOT and other prisons.
- I will work with colleagues across the country to overturn Citizens United and McCutcheon and return power to the people.
- I will continue to support a constitutional amendment allowing states and the federal government to regulate spending in elections.
- I will continue to advance the For the People Act to reduce big money in politics, limit corruption, protect voting rights, and restore integrity.
- I will work with whomever is democratically elected in Colombia to advance relations between Colombia and the United States.
- I will refuse to let American children go to bed hungry.
- I will refuse to abandon the working class.
- I will continue to support Medicare for All.
- I will continue to support a foreign policy rooted in human rights, including regarding Gaza.
- I will continue and expand my work on hunger, housing, and health care.
- I will work to prohibit imports from China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region unless U.S. Customs and Border Protection certifies they were not produced with forced labor.
- I will work to authorize targeted sanctions against people responsible for labor trafficking of Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities.
- I will work to require U.S. publicly traded companies to disclose engagement with Chinese entities involved in surveillance, internment, forced labor, and other serious human rights abuses in Xinjiang.
- I will work to require the Secretary of State to determine whether abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang constitute crimes against humanity or genocide and develop a diplomatic strategy to address forced labor there.
- I will work to require a Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force strategy report and regular updates on enforcing the import ban on forced-labor goods from Xinjiang.
- I will support raising the federal minimum wage to $17 by 2028 and ensuring fair and competitive wages for tipped workers, youth workers, and workers with disabilities.
- I will work to ensure that the ultra-rich and large corporations pay their fair share in taxes, close wasteful tax loopholes, and cut wasteful spending on special interests.
- I will oppose legislation that raises taxes on families making less than $400,000 a year.
- I will support U.S. government recovery and relief assistance efforts for Colombians affected by the August 10, 2026 earthquake.
- I will urge the Department of State to ensure U.S. engagement in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso supports crisis resolution and protects fundamental human rights.
- I will urge the Department of State to condition any foreign assistance to Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso on strict compliance with human rights requirements, including the Leahy Laws and coup-related restrictions.
- I will urge the Department of State to designate human rights violators for targeted Global Magnitsky Act sanctions.
- I will urge the Department of State to publicly explain the lifting of sanctions on individuals who may be implicated in serious human rights abuses.
- I will urge the Department of State to assess future atrocity risks in the Central Sahel and report to Congress on regional atrocity prevention under the Elie Wiesel Act.
- I will urge the Department of State to demand the immediate release of arbitrarily detained political figures, journalists, and civil society figures in the Central Sahel.
- I will urge the Department of State to support inclusive local peace processes in the Central Sahel, including civil society and affected communities in peace talks.
- I will urge the Department of State to increase humanitarian and development aid for essential services in the Central Sahel, including education, psychosocial support, and formal justice systems.
- I will support the development of a comprehensive U.S. strategy for Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger that discourages repression, addresses human rights violations and war crimes, and supports affected communities.
- I will conduct unannounced congressional oversight of ICE detention facilities in Massachusetts as part of increased oversight of ICE facilities.
- I will push to stop Trump's war with Iran, end U.S. support for genocide in Gaza, and oppose unchecked military spending.
- I will keep fighting to get grandfamily housing projects across the finish line.
- I will work to advance the Big Tech Accountability Act to give Americans more control over their personal data and hold technology companies accountable for algorithmic amplification of dangerous content.
- I will work to limit technology companies' ability to exploit Americans' personal information for profit.
- I will work to create greater accountability when social media companies use algorithms to actively target and amplify fraudulent disinformation, threats, or criminal violence.
- I will continue working to get H.R. 5439, the Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Program Pilot Act, passed by the House and signed into law before the end of 2026.
Method note
Long term, this app should score against a manually reviewed promise ledger that spans every elected office the candidate has held. The current model uses a Bayesian-style shrinkage step: thin records are pulled back toward 50 so the UI does not overstate certainty.
Claim occurrences, evidence, and future AI adjudications are all designed to store provider and model provenance. Formula version: 0.2.0.