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The forum will focus on potential solutions to the country's growing debt, including proposals from the Obama administration's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility.
Thompson, co-chair of the Military Veterans Caucus and a veteran of the Vietnam War, sent a bipartisan letter Wednesday urging House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to allow the last surviving American veteran of World War I to lie in honor in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.
Proponents are collecting signatures and drumming up support while local and federal officials are challenging the secrecy of the documents on which the U.S. Postal Service based its closure proposal.
The continuing resolution to keep the federal government operating until a compromise can be reached on a year-long funding bill was passed by a 335-91 vote margin.
“Everybody's very worried,” said Naomi Fuchs, chief executive officer of Santa Rosa Community Health Centers, a network of eight clinics that serves 34,000 patients. “We hope the funding is restored.”
A Superfund site in Davis has become the first federal groundwater cleanup project powered by solar energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said.
EPA officials on Wednesday unveiled the Frontier Fertilizer Superfund site's new solar photovoltaic system, which will help power the treatment of contaminated groundwater beneath the east Davis neighborhood.
Environmental Protection Agency officials switched on a new underground heating system Wednesday to expedite the toxic cleanup at the Frontier Fertilizer Superfund site in Davis.