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U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today voted to pass H.R. 2061, the Digital Accountability and Transparency (DATA) Act of 2013. This bill requires information on all federal spending to be posted to a single, comprehensive and searchable website, USASpending.gov. The DATA Act also limits federal agency travel expenses to 70 percent of their Fiscal Year 2010 travel costs, limits the allowable costs of agency conferences and requires extensive new reporting and public disclosure of conference costs and activities.
Rep. Mike Thompson hosted an afternoon town hall meeting at the Vineyard Valley mobile home park in east St. Helena.
This bipartisan legislation would expand coverage of telehealth services to active-duty servicemembers, their dependents, retirees, and veterans.
Because of provider shortages at local practices, many servicemembers and veterans lack access to a primary care physician, and in rural and underserved communities patients often must travel extended distances to see a healthcare provider.
Today, U.S. Reps. Mike Thompson (CA-5) and Scott Peters (CA-52) introduced H.R. 3507, the 21st Century Care for Military & Veterans Act. This bipartisan legislation would expand coverage of telehealth services to active-duty servicemembers, their dependents, retirees, and veterans. Because of provider shortages at local practices, many servicemembers and veterans lack access to a primary care physician, and in rural and underserved communities patients often must travel extended distances to see a healthcare provider.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today released the following statement on President Obama's announcement that insurance companies can continue offering insurance plans for another year even if those plans do not meet the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) minimum standards.
Six members of California's congressional delegation who have long opposed the state's Bay Delta Conservation Plan yesterday objected to changing cost estimates of an alternative measure that would take less water from the delta -- which supplies water to 25 million Californians -- than the state-backed proposal.
While the background check issue has been dormant on Capitol Hill since the Senate shot down such a proposal earlier in the year, Democrats argue that enough pressure on House GOP leaders would return the topic to prominence - and force a floor vote - before next year's mid-term elections.
He said among the California cities that could be helped by the provision's tax credits is Vallejo, where the Mare Island Naval Shipyard was closed in 1996.