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U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5), a senior member of the House Committee on Ways and Means, has reiterated his call for the House Majority to pass legislation extending emergency unemployment insurance.
Thompson said that approximately $64,858,382 was drained from California's economy – and $400 million nationwide – during the first week of expired federal benefits.
The termination of federal unemployment benefits last month halted payments to 3,086 Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino county residents totaling about $936,000 in the first week, according to state figures.
Statewide, the cutoff affected 213,793 long-term unemployed people, who lost an average weekly benefit of $303, the state Employment Development Department said.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson praised the bipartisan Senate vote Tuesday that launched consideration of a three-month extension of nationwide emergency unemployment insurance.
Thompson, a Democrat and Benicia's representative in the House, is a senior member of the Committee on Ways and Means.
On Tuesday the US Senate voted 60 to 37 to consider extending emergency unemployment insurance to more than one million Americans for three months, a step lauded by the two congressmen representing Lake County.
US Reps. John Garamendi (D-Fairfield) and Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena) also urged their colleagues in the House of Representatives to take up the legislation.
Rep. Mike Thompson announced Friday that his bipartisan legislation to improve treatment options for active duty soldiers with traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and post-traumatic stress (PTS) has passed in both the Senate and House and is expected to be signed into law by the president.
A year ago today, I was duck hunting in California when my phone buzzed with a breaking news alert. There had been a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. As the hours unfolded, more details surfaced. Twenty children – all of them 6 or 7 years old – and six adults had been gunned down in a senseless act of violence.
One year ago Saturday, horror united us.
We froze in our pre-holiday tracks, stomachs and jaws dropping, at news that 20 first-graders and six educators had been shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. No matter our politics or feelings about guns, we all hugged our loved ones tighter that night.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, released the following statement on Vice President Biden's announcement of $100 million in additional funding made available to expand and improve mental health services.
This session of Congress is the first since World II that has failed to protect a single new acre of public land.
This year, however, bills supported by California lawmakers are getting action and a push from the Obama administration.