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WASHINGTON (AP) - Former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is returning to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to help kick-start a longshot campaign to expand criminal background checks to all commercial firearms sales.
Similar legislation that sought to expand background checks failed to get a hearing in the House last session. With the GOP expanding its majority and winning control of the Senate, prospects for the bill may be even more unlikely this session.
Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords will join Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., to announce the reintroduction of Thompson's bill to expand background checks on gun buyers, a measure that failed to get a vote in the House last year.
The bill, co-authored by Thompson and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., does not ban any type of weapons, but would require background checks for all firearms sales, including transactions at gun shows, over the Internet and by newspaper ads.
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.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) announced that the U.S. Department of Defense has 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. 3547, the Fiscal Year 2014 omnibus appropriations bill, and was signed into law by the president in January 2014.
Rep. Mike Thompson announced Monday that the U.S. Department of Defense has issued a rule to implement Thompson's legislative provision requiring every American flag purchased by the Department of Defense to be 100 percent manufactured in the United States.
The law requires that these flags come from articles, materials or supplies that are 100 percent grown, produced or manufactured in the United States.
Thompson's provision passed last Congress as part of H.R. 3547, the Fiscal Year 2014 omnibus appropriations bill, and was signed into law by the president in January 2014.
Rep. Mike Thompson announced Monday that the U.S. Department of Defense has issued a rule to implement Thompson's legislative provision requiring every American flag purchased by the Department of Defense to be 100 percent manufactured in the United States.
The law requires that these flags come from articles, materials or supplies that are 100 percent grown, produced or manufactured in the United States.
Thompson's provision passed last Congress as part of H.R. 3547, the Fiscal Year 2014 omnibus appropriations bill, and was signed into law by the president in January 2014.
U.S Representative Mike Thompson (CA-5) announced Friday that around $4.8 million in emergency relief funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration will be given to help the California Department of Transportation and local agencies cover repair costs for infrastructure damaged by the last year's Aug. 24 earthquake.
For many years the natural wealth and recreation opportunities found here in Lake County and the surrounding counties has gone largely unrecognized. The nearly one hundred miles stretching from Lake Berryessa to Snow Mountain in the Mendocino National Forest is a crown jewel of Northern California's Inner Coast Range. Those of us who live here know well the tremendous value of the Berryessa Snow Mountain region and have been working to see it permanently protected for years.
Washington, D.C. – In recognition of National Invasive Species Week, U.S. Reps. Mike Thompson (CA-5) and Dr. Dan Benishek (MI-01) today announced the formation of the Congressional Invasive Species Caucus for the 114th Congress. This bipartisan caucus works to raise awareness of the impact of invasive species around the country, supports local communities who are bearing the brunt of this problem, and promotes efforts to prevent and control the spread of invasive species.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) today led a bipartisan coalition of legislators in calling on President Obama to protect local clean energy royalties from harmful budget cuts. In a letter to the president, Thompson and the lawmakers expressed their disappointment that geothermal royalty payments to counties were eliminated in the President's recently released Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 budget. 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.