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While accepting the Democratic Party's nomination for President in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt pledged to our nation and himself a New Deal for the American People. At the time, America was facing some of the Great Depression's darkest days. Infrastructure investments were the centerpiece of the New Deal because these investments were one of the strongest jump starts for a struggling economy. Americans from all corners of our country were put to work modernizing our roads and bridges.
My office has recently received reports that a September 29, 2010 e-newsletter sent from me titled “Wine E-News from Congressman Mike Thompson” is being used in conjunction with an electronic and financial scam. The email comes from an individual claiming to be a U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and asks for people to send money to a fraudulent email address. Please be advised not to send money or give out any personal information. My office is working with authorities to address the situation.
Sincerely,
Mike Thompson
Member of Congress
While there is much talk about the lack of bipartisanship in Congress, legislation is pending that both sides of the House agree upon. Congressman Mike Thompson, a California Democrat, and Congressman Jim Gerlach, a Pennsylvania Republican, have authored legislation that garnered 300 House co-sponsors, including majorities of Democrats and Republicans, to restore policies that support land conservation.
Tea Party politics and trillion-dollar-plus federal budget deficits have turned this year's transportation bill upside down.
Five-year transportation bills are traditionally bipartisan earmark fests that send hundreds of billions of dollars for highways, bridges, transit and other infrastructure to California and other states.
The Arcata Fire Protection District has been awarded more than $600,000 in federal grant funds to update the Humboldt County Fire Radio Network.
Congressman Mike Thompson announced Friday that the grant was awarded through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.
The grant will be used to update mountaintop radio repeaters, the dispatch console in the command center and the infrastructure that supports it.
The Republican spending plan, known as House Resolution 1, is a continuing resolution designed to keep the federal government funded through the end of the current fiscal year in lieu of a new budget.
Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-1) is leading a group of representatives in calling on President Obama to protect the U.S. agricultural workforce from a harmful “enforcement-only” approach to immigration reform.
In a letter to the president, Thompson and his colleagues in the House wrote that if only mandatory worker verification methods like E-Verify were implemented without regard to workers and employers, it would risk the economic vitality of the entire American agricultural industry.