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Washington – Today, Republicans pushed their Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal bill through the Committee on Ways and Means without proper review from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Outside estimates have projected that a repeal of the ACA would result in roughly 3 million jobs lost--including nearly 350,000 in California--and millions more Americans losing their health insurance while also adding more than $600 billion to the national debt. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05) released the following statement against the bill:
Washington – Today, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05) introduced an amendment at the Committee on Ways and Means to allow states to keep their existing healthcare system rather than repeal it. It would provide states the option to retain their existing marketplaces, benefit protections, and cost sharing and premium subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Republicans rejected the proposal.
WASHINGTON, D.C. >> Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05) introduced an amendment at the Committee on Ways and Means to allow states to keep their existing healthcare system rather than repeal it. It would provide states the option to retain their existing marketplaces, benefit protections, and cost sharing and premium subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Republicans rejected the proposal.
Martin Espinoza | The Press Democrat
Sonoma County health care officials Tuesday warned the newly introduced Obamacare replacement bill could upend the local health care system, leading to the loss of health coverage or dramatic benefits cuts to nearly 150,000 residents, and cost thousands of jobs and $200 million in economic losses.
Washington – Today, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05) released the following statement about the President's executive order banning Muslims and refugees from entering the United States:
Guy Kovner, The Press Democrat
Most of Rep. Mike Thompson's lawmaking colleagues were at the Capitol on Tuesday night, listening to President Donald Trump's first address to a joint session of Congress.
Washington – Today, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05) introduced a bipartisan resolution honoring March as Women's History Month—the origins of which are rooted in California's Fifth Congressional District.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Napa) wants the nation's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to stop wearing the word "police" on their jackets and vests when they are undertaking enforment operations.
He has been joined by 41 other lawmakers in calling for the change. Thompson represents parts of Martinez in the House.
"This is a matter of public safety," Thompson said. "Suggesting ICE officers are members of local law enforcement undermines the relationships immigrant communities have established with police departments."
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson on Tuesday denounced "rising anti-Semitism sentiments, exemplified by multiple bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers and schools as well as vandalism in Jewish cemeteries," and called for swift, decisive action to quell it.
Some local Jewish community members expressed gratitude for the concern as well as hope that these issues won't worsen.
Sonoma County's two members of Congress said President Donald Trump made expansive promises and talked about spending trillions of taxpayer dollars in a speech Tuesday night that was short on explaining how any of it will be done.
"He made a lot of lofty promises that quite honestly I don't see how they can be achieved," said Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, in a telephone interview shortly after the president's first speech to a joint session of Congress.