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President Barack Obama signed a bill Tuesday fixing an outdated Medicare payment formula that made it difficult to recruit doctors to Sonoma County and caused many local physicians to shut their doors to new Medicare patients.
The last time we checked, generating jobs remained high on the nation's priority list. So is weaning ourselves from traditional greenhouse-gas-producing energy systems.
The latest dire report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows, if anything, greater urgency is needed.
Until earlier this month, Congress hadn’t acted to protect a single new acre of public land as a national park, national conservation area or wilderness area since 2009.
Gov. Jerry Brown and Rep. Mike Thompson are involved in separate efforts to boost Sonoma County's groundbreaking program to help residents pay for energy-saving improvements to their homes.
Proposals to make financing clean energy production at individual homes and buildings first showed up in 2001 in San Francisco as a voter-approved solar bond program, and in 2005 in the Monterey Bay Regional Energy Plan.
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) introduced H. RES. 525, a bipartisan resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives honoring March as Women’s History Month. The origins of Women’s History Month begin in Thompson’s district. Until the late 1970’s, women’s history was rarely included in K-12 curriculum and was virtually absent in public awareness.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Mike Thompson (D-CA-5), Pete King (R-NY-2) and Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY-18) introduced the bipartisan Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Assessment Protection Act of 2014.
President Barack Obama signed a bill Tuesday that allows taxpayers to get expedited tax credit for donations made to the Philippines typhoon recovery effort, Rep. Mike Thompson's office said.
The bill, initially co-sponsored by Thompson, D-St. Helena, and three other congressmen, allows taxpayers to claim a charitable deduction on their 2013 tax returns for donations made by April 15.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson’s (D-CA-5) bipartisan Philippines Charitable Giving Assistance Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously this week.
The legislation, H.R. 3771 provides expedited tax relief for Americans making charitable donations in support of Typhoon Haiyan recovery efforts in the Philippines.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson’s (D-CA-5) bipartisan Philippines Charitable Giving Assistance Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously today. The legislation, H.R. 3771 provides expedited tax relief for Americans making charitable donations in support of Typhoon Haiyan recovery efforts in the Philippines.