Even before he was a member of Congress, he was fighting for justice as a congressional staff member. He led fact finding missions to El Salvador and the Ortega brothers put. A price on his head in the 80’s.

Jim has been the top Democrat on the powerful House Rules Committee since 2018, serving as Chairman during the 116th and 117th Congress. Jim has worked hard on the Rules Committee to change business as usual on Capitol Hill and make Congress work in a more open, transparent, bipartisan way. For example, he put in place rules to give all Members of Congress more time to read bills. He required that bills to go through the committee process instead of just being written behind closed doors, and he created a new office to recruit and retain congressional staff that reflect the diversity of the American people.

On the House Agriculture Committee, Jim has been a global leader in the fight to end hunger. He fought for and successfully secured a White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health to make ending hunger a national priority. Thanks to Jim's advocacy and tireless work, military families are being screened for hunger for the first time ever, families with children get enhanced food benefits, schools are able to provide more nutritious meals, and America now has a plan to end hunger within the decade.

Jim has spent his career in public service working to strengthen America's global leadership when it comes to protecting human rights and promoting peace. He serves on two commissions which monitor, investigate and advocate on behalf of international human rights, the rule of law, and good governance: the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, and the bipartisan Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. He has written and successfully passed into law several bills which help America identify and hold accountable corrupt foreign officials and human rights abusers. He has also authored and passed into law several pieces of legislation to hold the government of China accountable for human rights violations, including the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, the Tibet Policy and Support Act, and the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act

Jim's concern for human rights goes back to his time as a Congressional staffer, when he led an investigation into the murders of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter in El Salvador. Jim uncovered that the murders were committed by Salvadoran soldiers who had been trained by the United States Government–leading to a major shift in public opinion and a change in U.S. policy that made future military aid contingent on improved human rights in El Salvador.

George McGovern

Beginning with his experiences in war-torn Italy and continuing throughout his career, McGovern was involved in issues related to agriculture, food, nutrition, and hunger. As the first director of the Food for Peace program in 1961, McGovern oversaw the distribution of U.S. surpluses to the needy abroad and was instrumental in the creation of the United Nations-run World Food Programme. As sole chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs from 1968 to 1977, McGovern publicized the problem of hunger within the United States and issued the "McGovern Report", which led to a new set of nutritional guidelines for Americans. McGovern later served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture from 1998 to 2001 and was appointed the first UN global ambassador on world hunger by the World Food Programme in 2001.

Jim worked on George McGoverns 1984 presidential campaign and was a eulogist at his funeral. Jim has taken up the mantle where George McGovern set it down late in his career.

George McGovern was my first Presidential vote.
While my actual first vote at 18; yup, I was in the first year group of first-time 18 yr old voter in 1971!

Way later it was related that GMcG was not going to highlight his WW2 Bomber pilot service as a part of his campaign as a counterweight to his "peacenick" appellation for his anti-Vietnam War position.

underneigth our neighbors apartment doors when I was ?12 years old.

I was going to volunteer for Sen Kennedy at 15; when he would have come to NYC for NYS's primary.
(never totally got over that horrific atrocity)

At first, I wasn't going to volunteer for Humphrey. But decided I really didn't like Nixon. We also were out of school for some weeks because of a teacher's strike so I decided to. I had fun.

It wasn't till Carter that my Presidential candidate won.

and faced a guy with a shotgun pointed right at me. This was in Rochester NY.

Did you just back away at first, and then get the hell out! Or did he put his shot gun right down, and you talked to him.
Yikes!

I know NYS has red parts!