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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – On Thursday, U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) and Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) introduced legislation in the House (H.R. 761) and Senate (S. 393) to designate the 360,100 acre Berryessa Snow Mountain region as a national monument.
Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) and Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) today introduced legislation in the House (H.R. 761) and Senate (S. 393) to designate the 360,100 acre Berryessa Snow Mountain region as a National Monument.
California representatives in Congress are making another push to get Berryessa Snow Mountain nationally recognized.
U.S. Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein and Congressman Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, introduced Thursday the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument Act. The legislation would designate the region as a National Monument to protect more than 350,000 acres of publicly-owned land in Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Solano and Yolo counties.
Rep. Mike Thompson will try again to convince Congress to create a 360,000-acre Berryessa-Snow Mountain National Monument.
Thompson, D-St. Helena, and U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer announced on Thursday that they have introduced new Berryessa-Snow Mountain legislation. Among other things, it would unite federal land in the region under a single management plan, including about 62,000 acres in Napa County.
Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, and California Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation in the House and Senate on Thursday to designate the 360,100-acre Berryessa-Snow Mountain region — all federally owned land — as a national monument.
The move represents a slight shift for Thompson and Boxer, who tried in 2013 to get the sprawling area, which runs for 100 miles south-to-north through Napa, Lake, Mendocino, Solano and Yolo counties, placed in a national conservation area.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today announced the beginning of the 2015 Congressional Art Competition and urged high school students in California's 5th Congressional District to enter their artwork. The annual competition showcases the artistic talents and abilities of students in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories. The 2015 competition is open to all high school students in California's 5th District. The deadline to submit artwork is 5:00 p.m., Monday March 30th, 2015.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bipartisan coalition today introduced the Conservation Easement Incentive Act of 2015 in the House (H.R. 641) and Senate (S. 330). The legislation, authored by Representatives Mike Thompson (D-CA) and Mike Kelly (R-PA), and Senators Dean Heller (R-NV) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) provides a permanent enhanced tax incentive to family farmers, ranchers, and other landowners who choose not to develop their land and instead preserve their property for conservation.
Dear Friends,
January began a new year and a new Congress. On January 6th, I was officially sworn in as our district's representative for the 114th Congress. It is the highest honor to serve our communities, and I will continue working across the aisle to make sure our nation is a place where everyone has a fair shot to work hard and get ahead.
Economic comeback
Washington, D.C – In an effort to combat chronic hunger across the nation, a bipartisan coalition in the House of Representatives has introduced H.R. 461, the Wild Game Donation Act of 2015, to provide hunters with charitable deductions for the costs associated with donating processed deer, moose, and other wild game meats to food-based charities.
Almost politically unfathomable.
That's how North Coast Rep. Jared Huffman characterized any attempt on the part of the Republican-controlled Congress or the next president to reverse President Barack Obama's recent executive actions on immigration.
"It's going to be very hard for the next president of the United States to go backward," Huffman said Friday evening during a forum on immigration held in Santa Rosa.