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North Coast Congressman Mike Thompson is an original co-author of this bill.
The bill would allow family farms and ranches to pass down their land and farms, which is meant to preserve California's strong agricultural heritage.
The National Beer Wholesalers Association has mounted a full-court lobbying offensive to find co-sponsors for legislation that supports state-based alcohol regulation and makes it much tougher to file legal challenges to states' distribution laws.
On Thursday Congressman Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena) voted in favor of the Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010, which passed the House by a bipartisan vote of 246-161.
"This is not 1965, the oil and gas companies can drill offshore now with all the new technology they have and do it safely and not cause accidents,” a constituent wrote to me recently in an e-mail.
Small companies that account for 90 percent of the North Coast's business community also are among the winners under the bill President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law today.
After a year of political upheaval that swung from a triumphant Democratic sweep in Washington to the rise of the Tea Party movement, Congress on Sunday night sent to President Obama the most sweeping social program since Medicare was enacted in 1965.
The vote on the health care overhaul was 219-212, with not a single Republican supporting the measure.
In just a few days, you will start receiving information about the United States Census in your mailbox.
Please don't throw this information away. It may look like junk mail, but completing the census form is one of the most important ways you can help our community this month.
The Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act, H.R. 4626, would subject health insurance companies to federal antitrust laws, holding them to the same standards as everyone else.
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