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U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson's legislative language that holds the Department of Veterans Affairs accountable for ending the backlog of claims at the Veterans Benefits Administration was passed by the House and Senate and will be signed into law.
The language was included with H.R. 3547, the Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 omnibus appropriations bill.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson's (CA-5) legislative language that holds the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) accountable for ending the backlog of claims at the Veterans Benefits Administration was passed by the House and Senate and will be signed into law. The language was included with H.R. 3547, the Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 omnibus appropriations bill.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) announced today that the United States Naval Academy is accepting applications for their Summer Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Program. Applications for the United States Naval Academy's Summer Seminar program will open on January 16th, 2014.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5), chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, released a statement today on the $58.5 million included in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 omnibus appropriations bill (H.R. 3547) to strengthen the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). The funding in the FY 2014 omnibus appropriations bill represents a $41.7 million increase in funding from FY 2013 levels. The additional funds will be used to help states improve data submissions to NICS.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) released the following statement after Congressman George Miller announced he would retire after serving 40 years in Congress:
Which of these words doesn't fit in a sentence about health insurance?
Arbitrary.
Capricious.
Inexplicable.
Infuriating.
OK, it was a trick question. All too often, any one of those words would fit perfectly — much like two sides of a vise squeezing firmly together against your temples.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5), a senior member of the House Committee on Ways and Means, has reiterated his call for the House Majority to pass legislation extending emergency unemployment insurance.
Thompson said that approximately $64,858,382 was drained from California's economy – and $400 million nationwide – during the first week of expired federal benefits.
On Dec. 28, nearly 214,000 people in California lost an average $303 weekly benefit when the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program expired, as Lake County News has reported.
The termination of federal unemployment benefits last month halted payments to 3,086 Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino county residents totaling about $936,000 in the first week, according to state figures.
Statewide, the cutoff affected 213,793 long-term unemployed people, who lost an average weekly benefit of $303, the state Employment Development Department said.
That adds up to a loss of nearly $65 million for the California economy in the first week since the cutoff on Dec. 28, Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, said Thursday.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson praised the bipartisan Senate vote Tuesday that launched consideration of a three-month extension of nationwide emergency unemployment insurance.
Thompson, a Democrat and Benicia's representative in the House, is a senior member of the Committee on Ways and Means.
In a statement Tuesday, he said, "Today's bipartisan vote in the Senate is a positive step toward reinstating an important economic lifeline that millions of Americans depend on as they make the transition from joblessness to employment."