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Operation Full Court Press is taking place in Lake, Mendocino, Colusa, Glenn, Tehama and Trinity counties, with emphasis on the Mendocino National Forest, according to US Attorney Melinda Haag, who spoke at the Friday morning press conference at the Redwood Empire Fairgrounds in Ukiah.
U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag says, "Operation full court press is critically important. An operation that will help bring an end to the illegal marijuana growth sites on public land in California." And they have done just that. Over the past two weeks, Operation Full Court Press, has seized over 460-thousand marijuana plants, raided 56 grow sites, and made a total of 102 arrests..
"It's going to be very important that we take back our public land, identify and prosecute those folks who are responsible," Congressman Mike Thompson says.
“Today, Speaker Boehner brought forward his proposal to address our nation's impending debt-limit crisis. Unfortunately, this short-term deal would ensure we face another crisis in six months. Rather than appealing to the most radical wing of the conservative element of the majority party, we should be finding a bipartisan, balanced solution to our current impasse. That's why I voted against this misguided legislation.”
On Wednesday, Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-1) successfully offered an amendment to H.R. 2584, the Interior-Appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2012, that will preserve essential federal protections for America's endangered and threatened species.
Specifically, Rep. Thompson's amendment removed language - known as the Extinction Rider - that would have prevented the Fish and Wildlife Service from spending any funding to list new plants and animals under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
Rep. Mike Thompson on Wednesday helped lead a bipartisan effort that prevented the gutting of the federal Endangered Species Act.
Thompson, D-St. Helena, co-authored a successful amendment that stripped what environmentalists had come to call the “extinction rider” from the 2012 interior appropriations bill. The rider would have prevented the Fish and Wildlife Service from funding new listings of animals and plants as endangered species.
As the nation and Congress face an Aug. 2 deadline to raise the debt limit or face national default, Congressman Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, said he is not willing to balance the budget “on the backs of seniors, the poor or the middle class.”
The White House threatened Tuesday to veto emergency legislation pending in the House to avert a threatened national default.
“Most Americans agree that we must address our nation's debt crisis and put our fiscal house in order - and soon. As a matter of fact, just today, former Reagan Treasury deputy assistant secretary Bruce Bartlett testified at a Ways and Means Committee hearing that failing to raise the debt ceiling would cause a chain of events ‘much worse' than the 2008 financial crisis.
North Coast Reps. Mike Thompson and Lynn Woolsey joined 26 other House members and Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer in supporting California's appeal of a decision that denied federal disaster aid to counties hit hard by an extended March storm.
The bipartisan letter, signed by six Republican and 22 Democratic House members, supported Gov. Jerry Brown's appeal. It seeks to overturn a Federal Emergency Management Agency decision that denied federal assistance to 17 counties, including Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte counties on the North Coast.