Press Releases

U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today announced Benjamin Yu from Jesse M Bethel High School in Vallejo as the winner of the 2013 Congressional Art Competition. Benjamin's artwork, titled “Monotony” will represent California's 5th Congressional District in the U.S. Capitol, where it will be displayed starting June 4th for one year. Benjamin and a guest will be flown to Washington, D.C. to attend an awards ceremony in June.

U.S. Reps. Mike Thompson (CA-5), Joe Heck (NV-3), and Mark Amodei (NV-02) today announced that they introduced H.R. 1823, the Protecting Lakes Against Quagga Act of 2013 which would add quagga mussels to the national list of invasive species. This listing gives federal agencies greater ability to prevent the spread of the invasive species.

Today, U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) voted for the 37th time against a partisan attempt to repeal all or part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This is the House Majority's 37th vote in the last 2 years to repeal the healthcare law and take away the patient protections it provides. The 37 votes have cost taxpayers more than $52 million.

Today, U.S. Reps. Mike Thompson (D-CA) and Dave Reichert (R-WA) introduced the bipartisan Medicare Secondary Payer and Workers' Compensation Settlement Agreement Act, H.R. 1982 into the House of Representatives.

U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) today announced that he has led a bipartisan letter with Reps. Mark Amodei (R-NV), Steven Pearce (R-NM), Joe Heck (R-NV), Jared Huffman (D-CA), John Garamendi (D-CA) and Juan Vargas (D-CA) calling on President Obama to protect local clean energy royalties from harmful budget cuts. The letter urges the President to not repeal the sharing of geothermal royalty payments with counties. Because of the high burdens that geothermal production places on the counties where it is developed, counties currently share in the revenue of the federal receipts.

U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5), chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, today led more than 100 of his colleagues in sending a letter to House Speaker John Boehner and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi urging that Fiscal Year 2014 appropriations bills not include legislative language, or “riders”, that would block efforts to reduce and prevent gun violence.

U.S. Reps. Mike Thompson (D-CA) and Pete King (R-NY) today released the following statement on the growing momentum in support of the H.R. 1565, the King-Thompson bipartisan compromise to expand the current background check system to all commercial sales. The bill currently has more than 150 co-sponsors. Joining them are original co-authors Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Pat Meehan (R-PA), Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) and Peter Defazio (D-OR).

U.S. Reps. Mike Thompson (D-CA) and Pete King (R-NY) today announced that more than 100 Representatives have co-sponsored H.R. 1565, the King-Thompson bipartisan compromise to expand the current background check system to all commercial sales. They join original co-authors Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Pat Meehan (R-PA), Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) and Peter Defazio (D-OR).