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The Pathway Home and other centers treating military service members with combat-related brain injuries could become eligible for new federal funding under a congressional bill approved by the House of Representatives, Rep. Mike Thompson announced Thursday.
HR 2397, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2014, includes $10 million for a five-year pilot program to support health care centers outside of the Department of Veterans Affairs that treat combat veterans with traumatic brain injuries and post traumatic stress disorder.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, and a Napa County rancher testified before a congressional subcommittee Tuesday in support of Thompson's proposal to designate 350,000 acres of Northern California wilderness as a national conservation area.
The area would stretch from Snow Mountain in the north to Lake Berryessa in the south, with portions of Napa, Mendocino, Lake, Solano and Yolo counties. Thompson has sponsored a bill that would create the designation.
U.S. Reps. Mike Thompson (D-CA) and Jim Gerlach (R-PA) on Tuesday announced that they will introduce the bipartisan Conservation Easement Incentive Act of 2013.
The legislation provides a permanent tax incentive to family farmers, ranchers, and other landowners who chose not develop their land and instead preserve their property for conservation.
By providing tax benefits to landowners who choose conservation, the bill helps preserve our nation's farm lands and open spaces for future generations.
Congressmen John Garamendi (D-Walnut Grove) and Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena) and other representatives from Northern California called on Governor Jerry Brown's administration to withdraw and fully revise their proposed Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) Friday.
The call to action came in light of drafts provided to the California Department of Water Resources as part of a review of the Environmental Impact Reports that found the BDCP "biased" and "insufficient," according to a statement released by the United States House of Representatives.
On Friday, several U.S. Representatives from Northern California called on the Brown Administration to withdraw and fully revise their proposed Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) in light of draft environmental documents being found “biased” and “insufficient” by federal agencies in public comments made available Thursday.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson recently announced a $126,364 grant award to help Clinic Ole in Napa enroll the uninsured in new health insurance options made available by the Affordable Care Act.
With the grant, Clinic Ole will help consumers understand coverage options in California's new Health Insurance Marketplace â€" Covered California. The grant will also allow the health center to help people determine their eligibility for Medi-Cal, the Children's Health Insurance Program and other forms of financial assistance.
With or without a flood, big things are about start happening to downtown Napa.
This bypass channel will provide much more than just flood protection.
The channel, which would double as a city park in dry weather, is a critical component of the Napa River flood control project, approved by county voters in 1998.
“This project will be a linchpin of economic development and job creation in our community for decades to come,” Thompson said in a news release.
Rep. Mike Thompson's bipartisan provision requiring every American flag purchased by the Department of Defense to be 100 percent manufactured in the United States was passed by the House of Representatives earlier this week.
The legislation, an amendment to H.R. 1960, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2014, allows veterans and service members to access innovative treatments offered outside military and veteran medical facilities.