James P. McGovern
Democrat · MA-2 · U.S. House
Bio
James Patrick McGovern is an American politician who has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district since 2013. A Democrat, he is the ranking member of the House Rules Committee, chaired the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, and is the co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. His district, numbered as the 3rd district from 1997 to 2013, stretches from Worcester to the Pioneer Valley.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 29.6 years
- First took office
- 1997 (15 terms)
- Seniority
- 24 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 66
- Leominster, MA · 978-466-3552
- Northampton, MA · 413-341-8700
- Worcester, MA · 508-831-7356
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $1.4M – $5.8M
- Liabilities
- $600k – $1.3M
- Net worth
- $115k – $5.2M
- Since 2019
- +$600k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 4 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
James P. McGovern's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
James P. McGovern (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where McGovernsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- House Committee on Agriculturecenter · 53 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating McGovern's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
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