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In the wake of recent shootings in Portland, Ore., Las Vegas, Nev. and Santa Barbara, Congress members Carol Shea-Porter (D-New Hampshire), a member of the House's Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, and Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena), the task force's chairman, led a letter to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) signed by 163 members of Congress demanding a vote on substantive legislation to address gun violence.
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today announced a $1,227,878 Head Start/Early Head Start grant for Contra Costa County. The funding will be used to provide Head Start and Early Head Start services to more than 1,860 children and their families at 27 centers throughout Contra Costa County. The grant restores funding lost through the federal sequester in 2013.
WASHINGTON, DC – In the wake of recent shootings in Portland, Las Vegas, and Santa Barbara, Representatives Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01), a member of the House's Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, and Task Force Chairman Mike Thompson (CA-05) led a letter to Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) signed by 163 Members of Congress demanding a vote on substantive legislation to address gun violence.
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today released the following statement on the Obama Administration's decision to extend more benefits to same-sex couples, regardless of if they live in states that recognize same-sex marriage or not. These actions follow last year's U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act¸ ending the ban on federal benefits for legally married same-sex couples:
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Reps. Mike Thompson (CA-5) and Jared Huffman (CA-2) today announced a $2.5 million Department of Transportation Grant for Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) train. The funds will be used for the engineering design in preparation for construction of the Larkspur Extension, which will connect the SMART rail system to the Larkspur Ferry in Marin County.
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5), Chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, today issued the following statement after the Supreme Court upheld a federal law in Abramski v. U.S. that makes it a crime for one person to buy a gun with the purpose of transferring the gun to another person while lying to the dealer about the final owner of the firearm.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) announced a $376,423 U.S. Education Department grant has been awarded to Mendocino-Lake Community College.
The grant comes from the Education Department's College Assistance Migrant Program, or CAMP.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, has reignited a push to reform gun laws in America following high-profile incidents of gun violence in Santa Barbara and cities in Washington, Oregon and Nevada recently.
Thompson chaired a task force on preventing gun violence in the House of Representatives in early 2013, following a mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012 that left 26 children and adults at the school dead.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) on Monday called for House leaders to bring forward for a vote legislation to stop discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
His statement came after the White House announced that President Obama issued an executive order banning discrimination by federal contractors on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today issued the following statement after the White House announced that President Obama issued an executive order banning discrimination by federal contractors on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity: