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Representative Mike Thompson conferred with around 50 community members at a town hall meeting Tuesday night in Martinez. The meeting, held at Creekside Church, was an open forum for members of California's 5th Congressional District to discuss with their representative what was most important to them about their federal government.
Congressmen Mike Thompson (D- St. Helena) and Kevin Brady (R-The Woodlands), senior members of the House Committee on Ways and Means, Thursday introduced bipartisan legislation for small businesses in regard to federal employment tax responsibilities.
The Small Business Efficiency Act would provide rules for Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) that are voluntarily certified by the IRS to collect and pay federal employment taxes for small business clients.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA-05), chair of the bipartisan Invasive Species Caucus, hosted a caucus hearing in Washington, DC about the threat invasive species pose to local budgets, agriculture, infrastructure and the environment across California's Fifth Congressional District and other communities across the country.
"Invasive species pose a costly challenge to our economy, infrastructure, agriculture and the environment," said Thompson. "In the counties that make up our district, three lakes are rated at the highest risk for a quagga invasion."
Rep. Mike Thompson hosted an afternoon town hall meeting at the Vineyard Valley mobile home park in east St. Helena.
This bipartisan legislation would expand coverage of telehealth services to active-duty servicemembers, their dependents, retirees, and veterans.
Because of provider shortages at local practices, many servicemembers and veterans lack access to a primary care physician, and in rural and underserved communities patients often must travel extended distances to see a healthcare provider.
Six members of California's congressional delegation who have long opposed the state's Bay Delta Conservation Plan yesterday objected to changing cost estimates of an alternative measure that would take less water from the delta -- which supplies water to 25 million Californians -- than the state-backed proposal.
While the background check issue has been dormant on Capitol Hill since the Senate shot down such a proposal earlier in the year, Democrats argue that enough pressure on House GOP leaders would return the topic to prominence - and force a floor vote - before next year's mid-term elections.
He said among the California cities that could be helped by the provision's tax credits is Vallejo, where the Mare Island Naval Shipyard was closed in 1996.
In late 2002, the DOD revealed for the first time that between 1962 and 1974 it had tested harmful chemical and biological agents by spraying them on ships and sailors.
The amendment was passed as part of H.R. 3080, the Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA) of 2013.
Specifically, the amendment requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a study on the impacts of aquatic invasive species on federal assets and current federal spending on aquatic invasive species prevention.