Press Releases

WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today announced a $4,965,527 Head Start Grant for Community Action Partnership (CAP) of Sonoma County. The funding will be used to provide Head Start and Early Head Start services to 552 children and their families at 12 center based sites throughout Sonoma County.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Anna G. Eshoo (CA-18) and Mike Thompson (CA-5) reintroduced today the Fair Access to Health Care Act, legislation to expand the eligibility for premium tax credits for people living in high-cost areas who purchase health insurance through the federal and state exchanges set up by the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

WASHINGTON, DC – This week, Congressman Mike Thompson (D-CA) and Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) introduced the Medicare Patient Access to Hospice Act. This legislation fixes outdated Medicare regulations so that Physician Assistants can provide primary care to hospice patients, which is currently not covered under the current rules.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson today announced a $1,411,750 Department of Health and Human Services Grant to Napa County's Child Start. The goal of the Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership grant is to expand high quality early learning opportunities for Napa and Solano Counties' most vulnerable infants and toddlers. The grant will be used to form collaborative partnerships between Child Start and local child care programs like Napa Valley Adult Education's Teen Parent Program and Solano Community College Children's Programs.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05) was appointed by Speaker John Boehner to the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission. Thompson will fill the spot vacated by Former Rep. John Dingell (D-MI). The Migratory Bird Conservation Commission was established on February 18, 1929, by the passage of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act. It was created and authorized to consider and approve any areas of land and/or water recommended by the Secretary of the Interior for purchase or rental by the U.S.

Washington, DC – A coalition of U.S. House members today introduced H.R. 1217, the bipartisan King-Thompson background check legislation, officially known as the Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2015. The bill, authored by U.S. Reps. Mike Thompson (D-CA) and Pete King (R-NY), expands the existing background check system to cover all commercial firearm sales, including those at gun shows, over the internet or in classified ads while providing reasonable exceptions for family and friend transfers. The King-Thompson bill was co-authored by Reps.

WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today introduced H. RES. 137, a bipartisan resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives honoring March as Women's History Month. The origins of Women's History Month begin in Thompson's district.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) announced that the U.S. Department of Defense has today issued a rule to implement Thompson's legislative provision requiring every American flag purchased by the Department of Defense (DOD) to be 100 percent manufactured in the United States, from articles, materials, or supplies that are 100 percent of grown, produced or manufactured in the United States. Thompson's provision passed last Congress as part of H.R.