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August 16, 2013
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, had no trouble dispatching clay targets with a shotgun in a shooting range east of Napa Friday afternoon as he engaged a local gun dealer in a friendly skeet shooting competition.
But Thompson acknowledged that getting a bill through Congress to expand background checks for firearm purchases nationwide has been more troublesome.
August 16, 2013
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5), a senior member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement today after the Washington Post reported that National Security Administration (NSA) violated privacy rules thousands of times according to an internal audit and other documents.
August 13, 2013
Milton Tepeyac, who served eight years as a U.S. Marine, scrapes by on $3 an hour in this northern Mexican city, where he has lived since the U.S. government deported him in April.
His rented room floods when it rains. Scorpions skitter in. To kill them, he had to pay an exterminator $40 â€" a third of his weekly paycheck.
Once he served in Kuwaiti in a recon battalion, a highly trained grunt monitoring the movements of Saddam Hussein's military across the border in Iraq.
Issues:Veterans
August 12, 2013
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) was inducted into the California Waterfowler's Hall of Fame yesterday. The Waterfowler's Hall of Fame was established in 2006 by the California Fish and Game Commission to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to enhancing and conserving waterfowl and their habitats in the state. Thompson is the first sitting elected official to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
August 8, 2013
Officials local and distant took time Wednesday to recognize a milestone in plans to improve and modernize more than 14 blocks of the city's downtown.
The nearly $2 million Virginia Street streetscape project's ribbon cutting ceremony drew attention to city development efforts for the second time this week -- the first being a grand opening ceremony at the nearby Temple Art Lofts project.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, commended the benefits of government public infrastructure investments "that help real people with real jobs and spur the economy."
The nearly $2 million Virginia Street streetscape project's ribbon cutting ceremony drew attention to city development efforts for the second time this week -- the first being a grand opening ceremony at the nearby Temple Art Lofts project.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, commended the benefits of government public infrastructure investments "that help real people with real jobs and spur the economy."
August 8, 2013
U.S. Reps. Mike Thompson (CA-5) and Lee Terry (NE-2) introduced H.R. 2969 on Aug. 4, the bipartisan “Medicare Patient Access to Hospice Act,” which expands access to high quality health care by allowing physician assistants to continue caring for Medicare patients after they move from the hospital to hospice care. Currently, physician assistants cannot be reimbursed by Medicare for hospice services. The Medicare Patient Access to Hospice Act addresses this problem.
Issues:Health Care
August 7, 2013
I live near Napa Creek in a house built in the early 1900s. My house has been home to three generations of my family since 1941. Ironically, my grandparents purchased this house to escape flooding.
Their decision to move to this neighborhood occurred after a particularly bad flood along the river. During that flood, my grandparents, along with my mother who was 5 years old, were rescued in a row boat from their home on Napa Street near Soscol Avenue.
Their decision to move to this neighborhood occurred after a particularly bad flood along the river. During that flood, my grandparents, along with my mother who was 5 years old, were rescued in a row boat from their home on Napa Street near Soscol Avenue.
Issues:Jobs & Economy
August 6, 2013
At one time the old Masonic Temple was well on its way to becoming blight. But, after extensive renovation, the building is now Temple Art Lofts -- a project some consider proof that Vallejo is moving on to bigger and better things.
"A project like this is telling of a great city," said Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday inside the building at Marin and Virginia streets in downtown Vallejo.
More than 100 people crowded into the former Masonic Lodge meeting room to celebrate the project and note its promise for Vallejo.
"A project like this is telling of a great city," said Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday inside the building at Marin and Virginia streets in downtown Vallejo.
More than 100 people crowded into the former Masonic Lodge meeting room to celebrate the project and note its promise for Vallejo.
August 2, 2013
U.S. Reps. Mike Thompson (CA-5) and Lee Terry (NE-2) today introduced H.R. 2969, the bipartisan “Medicare Patient Access to Hospice Act,” which expands access to high quality health care by allowing physician assistants to continue caring for Medicare patients after they move from the hospital to hospice care. Currently, physician assistants cannot be reimbursed by Medicare for hospice services. The Medicare Patient Access to Hospice Act addresses this problem.
Issues:Health Care
August 1, 2013
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) released the following statement today in response to an agreement among House Republicans to introduce a nutrition bill that would cut $40 billion from food aid programs. After a failed attempt to pass a Farm Bill with $20.5 billion in nutrition cuts, the House Majority passed a Farm Bill that did not address the food aid programs at all. Today's announced agreement is the House Majority's attempt to deal with the food aid programs they failed to address in the Farm Bill.