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Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-1), a senior member of the House Committee and Ways and Means, today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding over $2.5 million in federal funding to help complete the Solano Avenue segment of the Napa Vine Trail.
Yurok Tribal Chairman Thomas O'Rourke Sr. stood at the edge of Blue Creek, a cold water fish refuge connected to the Klamath River, and shared the tribe's most spiritual place with the public figures and advocates who may help save it.
”Welcome to our home; you are in the very essence of who we are,” he told a group of nearly 40 people touring the river Thursday.
Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-1), a senior member of the House Committee on Ways and Means, today released the following statement regarding the importance of job creation:
The debt-reduction fight in Washington may shrink federal funding for community clinics at a time when the government is asking them to gear up for an influx of patients, local health officials said Monday.
Area Congressman Mike Thompson is furious and he has a perfect right to be. He's been calling for action over the past week by both Congress and the Senate to a short-term extension of FAA funding which expired on July 22.
But the Senate recessed without taking any action.