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Washington – Today, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05) introduced his proposal to protect families who want to pass their farm or business to the next generation. The Family Business Preservation Estate Tax Act would create a deduction to allow families to pass their business onto their descendants as long as it remains with the family.
Washington – Today, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its score of the Senate Republicans’ healthcare bill. It found an additional 22 million Americans would be left without health insurance if this passes. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05)—senior Member of the House Committee on Ways and Means—released the following statement:
Washington – Today, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05) introduced his proposal to protect families who want to pass their farm or business to the next generation. The Family Business Preservation Estate Tax Act would create a deduction to allow families to pass their business onto their descendants as long as it remains with the family.
Washington – Today, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its score of the Senate Republicans’ healthcare bill. It found an additional 22 million Americans would be left without health insurance if this passes. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05)—senior Member of the House Committee on Ways and Means—released the following statement:
Washington, DC – Today, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05) presented Vallejo resident and high school student Alannah Elyse Ruiz with a Congressional Award Gold Medal.
Washington – In the wake of the shooting at today’s Congressional baseball practice and subsequent threats that have emerged online, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05) issued the following statement:
A proposed bill in Congress aims to cut the number of Americans burned in so-called “flame jetting” incidents, when a container holding flammable fuel can become something akin to a flamethrower. The injuries can be devastating.
Bill Swindell | The Press Democrat
Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, introduced a bill Wednesday that would exempt measures for residential seismic retrofits from federal tax.
Rachel Raskin-Zrihen | Vallejo Times-Herald
In an attempt to make ObamaCare more accessible to those living in more expensive parts of the county, Rep. Mike Thompson and another Bay Area Congress member on Friday, reintroduced the Fair Access to Health Care Act.


















