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← United States Politicians
McGovern, James P.
House of Representatives · Massachusetts · Rank #54 of 621
Score
-$925B
Voting record
Budget votes.
At 929 dollars per patient, the military dollars this office backed could have funded pragmatic trials for about 997.7M patients.
Military $ Backed
$927B
Bills this office backed that expand military spending
Clinical Trials $
$2B
Bills this office backed that include clinical trial funding
Military : Medicine
591:1
Higher means more military than medicine
Score
-$925B
Clinical-trial funding voted for, minus military spending voted for.
Military spending voted for
$927B
Clinical-trial funding voted for
$2B
Counted as 3.3% of NIH funding, the share NIH spends on clinical trials
Military-to-trials ratio
591:1
Federal budget as a whole: 1,112:1
Spending Scale (vs All Politicians)
Military spending$927B
Clinical-trial funding$2B
Both bars use the same scale. Clinical-trial funding is 0.17% of the military spending
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Vote Record
Voted YEA
Voted NAY
NDAA FY2023 ($858B)$858B
NDAA FY2024 ($886B)$886B
Not Voting / Absent
How We Calculate
Military $
Military $ = Σ (bill amount for each YEA vote on NDAA, supplementals, or omnibus military portion)
NDAA and supplementals count at face value. Omnibus bills count only the military appropriation (~$858–886B/yr).
Clinical Trials $
Trials $ = NIH budget × 0.033
Only 3.3% of the NIH budget funds clinical trials ($1.56B of $47.3B). The other 96.7% is basic research, overhead, and administration. Source: JAMA.
Score
Score = Clinical Trials $ − Military $
Positive = net investment in medicine. Negative = net investment in military. Everyone is negative.
Ratio
Ratio = Military $ ÷ Clinical Trials $
Higher means more military spending per dollar of clinical-trial funding. ∞ means the politician voted for military spending but for no bill with clinical-trial funding.
The Maths
McGovern, James P. voted for $591 in military spending for every $1 of clinical-trial funding. The federal budget as a whole spends 1,112:1.
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