The Latest Breaking News from Jim McGovern

The Senate majority leader is suddenly keen to pass legislation that he portrayed as a threat to broader reform.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Tom McClintock wanted to learn more about President Joe Biden’s response to known or suspected terrorists trying to illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border. So, the California Republican introduced a resolution to ask the Homeland Security Department for any document relating to encounters like those since Biden’s inauguration.

President Joe Biden told several hundred people Wednesday that he envisions a U.S. with fewer deaths from diet-related diseases and parents better able to put food on the table.

President Biden also appeared to forget that a Republican lawmaker who backed the hunger conference was killed in a car accident last month.

The first White House conference on hunger, nutrition and health since 1969 is happening in late September. Some are worried the administration won't be able to meet the high bar that conference set.

Tuesday’s wide-ranging hearing attempted to link former President Donald Trump to far-right groups that stormed Capitol.

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration’s plan to hold a hunger summit, more than 50 years after President Richard Nixon convened a similar one, will put a spotlight not only on shortcomings in the current programs but also on issues that emerged over the decades since.

The administration's hunger summit faces challenges that have emerged since 1969, when the Nixon administration held a similar event.

The activists who say otherwise are wrong on the costs and wrong on the science.