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Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) and the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLBank San Francisco) announced today that $3.9 million in Affordable Housing Program (AHP) grants have been awarded to help finance five Napa County housing projects.
YOUNTVILLE — Amends were offered Tuesday for the rough treatment that many Vietnam veterans received when they came home from war.
“I remember coming back and getting spit on,” said Gary McConnell, 73. “I couldn’t wait to get out of my uniform.”
McConnell served three combat tours in South Vietnam and 11 total years in the military– he still has a scar on his left arm from where he was hit with shrapnel.
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) introduced the Earthquake Mitigation Tax Incentive Act (H.R. 5610) with Rep. Paul Cook (R-CA), bipartisan legislation to exclude earthquake mitigation incentives from being taxed at the federal level. California has already made these incentives tax free at the state level.
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5), Chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, today recognized the National Day of Action for Commonsense Gun Violence Prevention with Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (CA-12) Congressman Mike Honda (CA-17), Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-13), Congressman Eric Swalwell (CA-15), law enforcement officers, medical professionals, community leaders, advocates, survivors of gun violence, families and kids at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.
Arnulfo Solorio believes that learning English helped advance his farmworker career, and his dream of seeing fellow farmworkers achieve the same is being realized through the Napa Valley Farmworker Foundation, which held its first farmworker recognition and donor appreciation luncheon Tuesday.
“My dream is that farmworkers can speak, read and write English. That they have basic math skills. That they acquire leadership skills. That they acquire general viticulture skills, and have access to professional development,” Solorio told attendees at the luncheon held at Solage Calistoga.
SAN FRANCISCO >> Less than a week after Democrats ended their day-long sit-in protest on the House floor over gun control laws, government officials once again rallied together Wednesday to protest Republican inaction.
Led by Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Solano), a handful of congressmen and women joined Bay Area law enforcement officers, community leaders and survivors of gun violence in a show of solidarity in the plaza outside of the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) — Building on a sit-in staged by House Democrats in the nation’s capitol last week, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and members of the Bay Area congressional delegation on Wednesday gathered in San Francisco to call for House Republicans to allow a vote on gun control bills.
Fresh from last week’s sit-in on the floor of Congress, seven U.S. representatives brought their call for new gun control laws on Wednesday to the front door of Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, which treats many victims of gun violence.
“No more moments of silence,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, said. “No more silence.”
Watching the Democrats’ sit-in on the House floor last week filled Mandy Pifer with pride — and the conviction that Congress will act on tougher gun violence laws.
Pifer, whose boyfriend, Shannon Johnson, was killed in the San Bernardino shooting Dec. 2, had the chance to offer her encouragement in person Wednesday at a roundtable discussion on advancing gun control hosted by Southern California House members at Los Angeles City Hall.
A week after Democrats staged a nearly 26-hour sit-in on the House floor, they're taking their message to the people and holding dozens of events Wednesday throughout the country as part of a national day of action against gun violence.