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U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson today voted against his own legislation, the Conservation Easement Incentive Act of 2015, after House Republicans rejected Thompson's amendment to pay for the bill.
Thompson offered an amendment that would not have raised taxes on any individuals, but would have simply given the IRS more time to investigate if someone overstated an asset's value which could lead to a larger deduction than they are entitled.
Thompson said his amendment was previously proposed by former Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp, a Republican.
Higher education can be the key to a better-paying, more productive adulthood. But how can college students avoid being sucked under by debt in search of their dreams?
At a college affordability forum presented by Napa Valley College, NVC staff joined U.S. Department of Education officials and Rep. Mike Thompson to lay out a road map to financial assistance for those already enrolled and for high school seniors poised to do so.
Top trade officials and congressional lawmakers said Wednesday that the United States is launching a challenge to China's extensive export subsidy program.
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said Beijing appears to be providing the prohibited export subsidies to manufacturers and producers across seven economic sectors and dozens of other sectors throughout China that are harmful to U.S. workers and businesses.
Presented with the opportunity to pitch an idea to their local congressman, students at American Canyon High School picked a hot topic: Should students be required to pass a civics test to graduate.
The plan was crafted as part of a government assignment in Tom Stolberg's class. He had two groups of students prepare briefing papers that were presented to Congressman Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, who visited the class last week.
The other proposal presented to Thompson focused on ways to help improve employment opportunities and money management skills for young people.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – On Thursday, U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) and Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) introduced legislation in the House (H.R. 761) and Senate (S. 393) to designate the 360,100 acre Berryessa Snow Mountain region as a national monument.
Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, and California Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation in the House and Senate on Thursday to designate the 360,100-acre Berryessa-Snow Mountain region — all federally owned land — as a national monument.
The move represents a slight shift for Thompson and Boxer, who tried in 2013 to get the sprawling area, which runs for 100 miles south-to-north through Napa, Lake, Mendocino, Solano and Yolo counties, placed in a national conservation area.
Rep. Mike Thompson will try again to convince Congress to create a 360,000-acre Berryessa-Snow Mountain National Monument.
Thompson, D-St. Helena, and U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer announced on Thursday that they have introduced new Berryessa-Snow Mountain legislation. Among other things, it would unite federal land in the region under a single management plan, including about 62,000 acres in Napa County.
California representatives in Congress are making another push to get Berryessa Snow Mountain nationally recognized.
U.S. Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein and Congressman Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, introduced Thursday the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument Act. The legislation would designate the region as a National Monument to protect more than 350,000 acres of publicly-owned land in Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Solano and Yolo counties.
Almost politically unfathomable.
That's how North Coast Rep. Jared Huffman characterized any attempt on the part of the Republican-controlled Congress or the next president to reverse President Barack Obama's recent executive actions on immigration.
"It's going to be very hard for the next president of the United States to go backward," Huffman said Friday evening during a forum on immigration held in Santa Rosa.
Regional and California lawmakers, all Democrats, hailed President Barack Obama's words Tuesday night as a forceful speech with a bold and optimistic vision that sets a clear agenda for his final two years in office despite fierce Republican opposition.