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After voting against President Barack Obama's budget for the 2011 fiscal year last week, Congressman Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena), held a meeting about the country's fiscal future in the Board of Supervisors' chambers in the Lake County Courthouse Tuesday.
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.
On Saturday, Congressman Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena), a senior member of the House Committee on Ways & Means, voted against House passage of H.R. 1, the continuing resolution that would fund the federal government through the end of fiscal year 2011.
The Republican spending plan, known as House Resolution 1, is a continuing resolution designed to keep the federal government funded through the end of the current fiscal year in lieu of a new budget.
If passed, the bill would require air carriers to provide adequate food, water, temperature controls, ventilation and working toilets during excessive delays, and offer passengers the option to deplane after three or more hours on the ground.
Among the items listed in the bill are a "three-hour" provision that would require airlines to offer passengers the option to exit the plane if it has been stalled on the tarmac for longer than three hours.
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