Press Releases

Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-1) today announced a $325,217 federal Assistance to Firefighters Grant for Healdsburg. The grant was awarded through The Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) Program of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The funds are part of the an AFG program called Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) and will be used to make sure fire departments can attain and maintain 24-hour staffing, and to assure that their communities have adequate protection from fire and fire-related hazards.

U.S. Representatives Mike Thompson (D-CA), Glenn ‘GT' Thompson (R-PA) and Lois Capps (D-CA) today sent a bipartisan letter to the House-Senate Transportation Conference Committee requesting that conferees adopt minimum funding levels for bridges not on Federal-aid highways under the final surface transportation reauthorization agreement.

Last night, on the Floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-1), explained the Bureau of Reclamation's (BOR) shortcomings at Lake Berryessa and secured a commitment from Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) and Ranking Member Peter Visclosky (D-IN) of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development to address BOR's management problems at Lake Berryessa and at other sites around the country.

Frelinghuysen and Visclosky serve as the top two representatives on the House subcommittee that oversees all funding for BOR activities.

Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-1) today secured the passage of his amendment to H.R. 5743, the Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 Intelligence Authorization Act that will help make sure small businesses receive fair opportunities to compete for intelligence community contracts. Currently, many small businesses are not made aware of existing contract opportunities within the intelligence community because they lack certain security clearances or access to the classified databases where the opportunities are presented.

Congressmen Mike Thompson (D-CA) today released the following statement in honor of Memorial Day, which will be observed on Monday, May 28, 2012:

“On Memorial Day, we honor the men and women who laid down their lives for our nation's most treasured and highest ideals: freedom, liberty, and democracy.

Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-1), co-chair of the bipartisan Military Veterans Caucus, today secured the passage of his bipartisan amendment with Congressman Pete Sessions (TX-32) to expedite new and innovative treatments to our nations' veterans and active duty soldiers suffering from Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The TBI treatment expansion initiative was adopted as a House amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2013 (H.R. 4310).

Calling the most recent BDCP delay the “last, best opportunity to stand up to… unreasonable demands,” Reps. Mike Thompson (CA-1), Jerry McNerney (CA-11), George Miller (CA-7), Doris Matsui (CA-5), and John Garamendi (CA-10) called for specific steps to be taken for the BDCP to move forward in a fair and transparent manner. The five members from the California congressional delegation have been vocal in calling for changes to the BDCP and have demanded that any plan has significant input from the Bay-Delta region.

Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-1) announced that the President today signed legislation that Thompson introduced to officially rename the Yountville Veterans Home Post Office the “Private First Class Alejandro R. Ruiz Post Office Building.” Congressman Thompson introduced this legislation in November to honor Alejandro R. Ruiz Sr., a Medal of Honor winner who spent his career in the U.S. Army and served in World War II. After retirement, Ruiz lived at the Yountville Veterans Home, located in Napa County, California, until he passed away in 2009 at the age 85.