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The forum will focus on potential solutions to the country's growing debt, including proposals from the Obama administration's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility.
The meeting will take place in Council Chambers, Eureka City Hall, 531 K Street.
“At a time when tight budgets are forcing many of our schools to scale back art and music programs, I think it's important to recognize and encourage young artists,” said Rep. Thompson.
Proponents are collecting signatures and drumming up support while local and federal officials are challenging the secrecy of the documents on which the U.S. Postal Service based its closure proposal.
The U.S. Postal Service has refused to make public the documents used to determine that the downtown post office is a financial burden and that it should be consolidated with the post office annex located on the edge of town.
As the top-ranking Democrat on the subcommittee, Thompson will help oversee the Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies and departments.
Specifically, Rep.
The continuing resolution to keep the federal government operating until a compromise can be reached on a year-long funding bill was passed by a 335-91 vote margin.
It would prevent a looming government-wide shutdown and gives the House, Senate, and White House more time to reach an agreement on a long-term funding bill.
Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-1), a senior member of the House Committee on Ways & Means, today voted for a short-term Continuing Resolution to keep the federal government operating until a compromise can be reached on a year-long funding bill. The bill, which passed by a 335-91 vote margin, would prevent a looming government-wide shutdown and gives the House, Senate, and White House more time to reach an agreement on a long-term funding bill.
Thompson, who said he had been touring the district during a week-long Congressional recess, presented a 20-minute budget slideshow in an effort to reduce federal fiscal realities to some easily understood statistics and policy choices.
“Do you know why this wine is so good?” the seven-term Democrat asked a visiting reporter. “Because it was grown by a conscientious, passionate grower.”
And that would be … him.