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WASHINGTON >> Exhausted but exuberant, House Democrats vowed to fight on for gun control Thursday as they ended their high-drama House floor sit-in with songs, prayers and defiant predictions of success.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena), the chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, joined House Democrats in protesting the refusal of Republican Leadership to allow a vote on bipartisan legislation to address gun violence.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson’s (CA-5) bipartisan legislation, the Small Business Healthcare Relief Act (H.R. 5477), passed the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
Last week, H.R. 5477 was passed out of the House Committee on Ways and Means.
This legislation allows small employers to continue to offer Health Reimbursement Arrangements, or HRAs, to their employees so that they can choose a quality, affordable health insurance plan that fits their individual budget and health care needs.
WASHINGTON, D.C. >> U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson’s (D-5) bipartisan legislation, the Small Business Healthcare Relief Act (H.R. 5477), passed the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena) and other House Democrats held a sit-in on the floor of the House of Representatives Wednesday, demanding that Republican leadership allow a vote on what they’re calling bipartisan, common sense legislation to prevent gun violence.
Thompson led the effort along with Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, Thompson spokeswoman Megan Rabbit said.
North Coast Rep. Mike Thompson joined other Democrats in a sit-in on the House floor Wednesday, demanding Republicans vote on two pieces of gun control legislation — one of them, his.
The rare move comes one week after a Senate filibuster that resulted in a vote on several pieces of gun control legislation, though all four bills were voted down.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena) issued the following statement Monday after the Senate failed to pass amendments offered by Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to help keep guns away from criminals, domestic abusers, the dangerously mentally ill and suspected terrorists.
A bill by Rep. Mike Thompson (D- St. Helena) that would allow small businesses to continue offering their employees Health Reimbursement Arrangements, heads to the Senate after passing the House of Representatives Tuesday, Thompson’s office announced.
t’s the photo of a 6-year-old smiling broadly in his Little League uniform that sticks with Mike Thompson as he pushes Congress to consider tougher gun control laws.
The Napa Valley Democrat was sitting in a Yolo Pass duck blind in 2012 when he learned of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn.
Hoping to capitalize on public outrage in the wake of the Orlando, Fla., mass shooting, Rep. Mike Thompson joined Democratic leaders Wednesday in calling for a vote on long-stalled gun-control legislation, saying the growing toll of American lives lost to gun violence demanded action from a deadlocked Congress.
“We have been through so many of these tragedies,” Thompson, D-St. Helena, said in an interview Wednesday from Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) has introduced the Airline Consumer Protection Act (H.R. 5291), legislation to strengthen consumer protections and improve travel experience for airline passengers.