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Thompson Lauds Passage of Disaster Supplemental in Senate

May 24, 2019

Urges House to vote immediately on bill with CA-05 priorities

Washington – Today, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05) lauded the Senate passage of the Disaster Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2019, which includes key priorities to assist with disaster recovery for California's Fifth Congressional District for which Thompson advocated. A statement from Thompson is below.

"The Senate version of the Supplemental Appropriations Act includes provisions I worked on that are critical to our district's recovery from recent fires. The bill includes $100 million for Community Development Block Grant funding that will help our community with unmet needs from the October 2017 fires such as housing, debris removal and infrastructure repair.

"This bill also protects our local, small family agricultural producers whose crops may have been damaged by wildfires or wildfire smoke. I worked to ensure funding for the Wildfire and Hurricane Indemnity Program was included in this bill to help our local communities. Both these provisions are essential to our community's recovery efforts and I will continue to fight to bring back every dollar and resource to help rebuild. I look forward to swift consideration by the House so our communities can access this funding as soon as possible."

You can click here to learn more about this bill and you can click here to read about Thompson's advocacy for these provisions that are critical for the Fifth Congressional District.

Congressman Mike Thompson is proud to represent California's 5th Congressional District, which includes all or part of Contra Costa, Lake, Napa, Solano and Sonoma Counties. He is a senior member of the House Committee on Ways and Means where he chairs the Subcommittee on Tax Policy. Rep. Thompson is Chairman of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force. He is also Co-Chair of the bipartisan, bicameral Congressional Wine Caucus and a member of the fiscally-conservative Blue Dog Coalition.