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Wilfred Alexander, a Vallejo resident and Vietnam War veteran, said the Agent Orange herbicide he handled at war led to prostate cancer later in life, but he had to wait months for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to process his treatment claim. Another veteran said he has to drive an hour and a half for a dentist, doctor or hospital appointment.
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5), a member of the bipartisan TRIO Caucus, today announced a $325,000 U.S. Department of Education grant for Sonoma State University's (SSU) TRIO program. Federal TRIO programs are outreach and student services programs designed to identify and provide services for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. The programs serve and assist low-income individuals, first-generation college students, and individuals with disabilities.
As lawmakers cobble together a temporary fix for the nation's crumbling infrastructure, the North Coast's two congressional representatives have reiterated their call for a long-term plan to fund federal highway projects.
Reps. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, and Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, said the highway funding bill that the House passed last week does little to address the long-term health of the Federal Highway Trust Fund, which accounts for half of California's transportation spending.
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today announced a $222,179 Small Business Innovation Research grant for Riptide Bioscience, INC. Riptide Bioscience, INC. is based in Vallejo on Mare Island. The grant, from the National Eye Institute (NEI), will go towards a research project titled the Designed Host Defense Peptides for the Treatment of Bacterial Keratitis.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today issued the following statement on the violence in Israel and the Palestinian Territories:
Sonoma County's congressional representatives are right. Six months of secrecy surrounding the federal raid of a Petaluma slaughterhouse and a nationwide recall of meat processed there in 2013 is more than enough. It's time for federal investigators to come clean with their investigation into Rancho Feeding Corp. — if only to allow local ranchers who relied on Rancho for food processing to move on with a better understanding of what they can do, if anything, to address their losses.
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) introduced H.R. 5106, bipartisan legislation that would designate the United States Postal facility located at 100 Admiral Callaghan Lane in Vallejo as the "Philmore Graham Post Office Building." Every member of the California Congressional Delegation has cosponsored Thompson's bill.
Six months after federal regulators closed a Petaluma slaughterhouse and initiated a nationwide beef recall, two North Bay congressmen are calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture for answers about the still-ongoing investigations.
"Six months has been ample time," Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, said Monday of the probes into Rancho Feeding Corp. "They should have been able to give us information, and they haven't."
As mass shootings continue at an alarming rate, any helpful legislation is welcomed with open arms. On Capitol Hill, one such measure, proposed by U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, a gun owner himself and Chairman of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, would allow police to obtain gun removal warrants from judges whenever someone is having a mental health crisis and is deemed a danger to himself or others.