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Feb 16, 2011 News Articles
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-1) is coordinating participation in the Veterans History Project with Laytonville High School as well as other high school and college students in Mendocino County.
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Feb 15, 2011 News Articles
Airlines in the United States will carry a billion passengers a year by 2021, the Federal Aviation Administration predicted Tuesday -- raising the prospect of even more flight delays and complaints from the flying public.
Feb 15, 2011 News Articles
Congressman Mike Thompson, D- St.Helena, held a press conference this morning introducing the Air Passenger Bill of Rights of 2011.

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.

Feb 15, 2011 News Articles
Consumer advocate Kate Hanni of Napa fielded media interviews all day Tuesday on Capitol Hill as she hailed the latest move to get limits into federal law on how long airline passengers can be stranded on tarmacs.
Feb 9, 2011 News Articles
Congressman Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, co-chair of the Bipartisan Rural Health Care Coalition, joined Reps. Greg Walden, R-Ore., Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., Mike Ross, D-Ark., and Jim Matheson, D-Utah, on Tuesday in introducing legislation to give rural Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries equal representation on the boards that set policy for the public programs.
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Feb 9, 2011 News Articles
Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-1), a senior member of the House Committee on Ways and Means, sent a letter to key members of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, including Chairman John Mica (R-FL) and Ranking Member Nick Rahall, II (D-WV), urging them to include crucial passenger protections in the House Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill.
Feb 7, 2011 News Articles

The last place most kids want to be on a Saturday morning is the dentist's office, but it's not such a bad place if you get to brush a dinosaur's teeth.

At the Mendocino Community Health Clinic Inc.'s Hillside Health Center in Lakeport, Saturday was “Give Kids A Smile Day,” an event normally marked on the first Saturday in February, which also is Children's Dental Health Month.

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Feb 5, 2011 News Articles

Congressman Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, a senior member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, announced Friday that the City of West Sacramento Fire Department will receive more than $1.1 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Department of Homeland Security through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program.

Feb 4, 2011 News Articles

The University of California at Davis has opened the most environmentally sophisticated facility for making, researching and teaching wine, brewing beer and processing foods. 

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Feb 3, 2011 News Articles

Congressman Mike Thompson (D-CA) has reintroduced legislation that would bring tax relief to the owners of family farms and open spaces. The “Family Farm Preservation and Conservation Estate Tax” bill would defer the payment of the estate tax for families as long as the land remains in agriculture or open space.