112th Congress
Competition in our global economy is increasing, and a college education is getting more expensive. This is counterintuitive. If our nation is going to remain competitive in our global economy, then we must continue producing the world's best entrepreneurs and innovators. And if we are going to continue producing the world's best entrepreneurs and innovators, then a college education must be an affordable option for working families.
The ongoing turmoil over management of Lake Berryessa's resorts reached the floor of Congress on Thursday night, as Napa County's Rep. Mike Thompson secured bipartisan pledges to find a fix.
While short on specifics, Thompson's three-minute remarks before a House Appropriations subcommittee will surely step up pressure on the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) as it enters mediation with the contractor operating five of the seven resorts at the lake.
half-century ago, the 400-mile stretch of Highway 101 between San Francisco and the Oregon border was a two-lane roadway that meandered through dozens of small towns. During summer months, it was clogged with logging trucks and vacationers' trailers.
Mile-by-mile, at no small cost, almost all of Highway 101 was upgraded, mostly to freeway, allowing traffic to move more smoothly and rapidly. But a few bottlenecks remained.
Frelinghuysen and Visclosky serve as the top two representatives on the House subcommittee that oversees all funding for BOR activities.
Gulio Brovelli enlisted in the Army in July 1917, declaring that despite having immigrated to the U.S. from Italy only 11 years prior, “If it is good enough to live in, it is good enough to fight for.”
Brovelli died Oct. 8, 1918, just a month before World War I ended. On Monday, Brovelli and 27 other fallen veterans who hailed from the St. Helena area finally got their due.
As many as 500 people gathered at the St. Helena Cemetery on Monday to dedicate a new war memorial honoring 28 St.
The City of American Canyon and the Napa County Regional Park and Open Space District would like to invite you to the Napa River and Bay Trail Grand Opening Ceremony on Saturday, June 2. The ceremony will be held at the Wetlands View Area located at the corner of Eucalyptus Drive and Wetlands Edge Road at 10:00 a.m. Congressman Mike Thompson as well as other local dignitaries are scheduled to speak at the event. There will also be fun activities, refreshments, and more. Please join us. For more information, please contact staff @ 707-648-7275.
I am glad to see that throughout our district, American flags are proudly displayed on homes, businesses and in town squares. Wherever a flag is flown, it is a symbol of the freedoms men and women throughout our history have marched, fought and died to secure.
It was flown on the beach in Normandy. It was raised over Iwo Jima. Through the haze of tear gas and the smack of billy clubs, it was carried over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. It has draped the coffins of countless heroes who have fallen overseas.
Today, on Memorial Day, we honor the men and women who laid down their lives for our nation's most treasured and highest ideals: freedom, liberty and democracy.
As we honor their service to our nation, let us also remember the Americans who are serving our nation around the world today. Without the brave efforts of generations of soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, Merchant Marines, and Coast Guardsmen and their families, our country would not live so freely.
“On Memorial Day, we honor the men and women who laid down their lives for our nation's most treasured and highest ideals: freedom, liberty, and democracy.