112th Congress
Congress has passed a bill by Rep. Mike Thompson, which aims to improve treatment for veterans suffering from traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Thompson's office announced.
The measure heads now to the Senate.
Thompson, D-Napa, co-chairs the bipartisan Military Veterans Caucus. He secured the passage of his bipartisan amendment with Texas Republican Rep. Pete Sessions, he said in a statement. The treatment expansion initiative was adopted as a House amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013, he said.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson presented Community Health Clinic Ole with a $175,000 check Monday, with the money going toward updating the clinic's Calistoga facility.
The grant money, which was made available through the federal Affordable Care Act, will help upgrade the clinic's phones and computers as well as its heating and air conditioning system.
“When we opened (the Calistoga clinic), it was all hand-me-downs,” said Maria Criscione Stel, Clinic Ole's director of communications.
Congressman Mike Thompson announced the passage by the House of Representatives Friday of a budget amendment that would fund innovative treatments for veterans and active duty soldiers suffering traumatic brain injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The amendment creates a new five-year $10 million pilot program that allows military patients to receive treatment from health care facilities outside of the Department of Veterans Affairs that are utilizing an array of leading-edge, successful therapies.
Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-1), co-chair of the bipartisan Military Veterans Caucus, on Friday secured the passage of his bipartisan amendment with Congressman Pete Sessions (TX-32) to expedite new and innovative treatments to our nations' veterans and active duty soldiers suffering from Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
The TBI treatment expansion initiative was adopted as a House amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2013 (H.R. 4310).
Calling the most recent Bay Delta Conservation Plan delay the “last, best opportunity to stand up to … unreasonable demands,” Reps. Mike Thompson (CA-1), Jerry McNerney (CA-11), George Miller (CA-7), Doris Matsui (CA-5) and John Garamendi (CA-10) called for specific steps to be taken for the plan to move forward in a fair and transparent manner.
The five members from the California congressional delegation have been vocal in calling for changes to the Bay Delta Conservation Plan and have demanded that any plan has significant input from the Bay-Delta region.
President Obama signed legislation Tuesday renaming the Yountville Veterans Home Post Office the “Private First Class Alejandro R. Ruiz Post Office Building,” said Rep. Mike Thompson who had sponsored the name change.
Thompson introduced this legislation in November to honor Alejandro R. Ruiz Sr., a Medal of Honor winner who spent his career in the U.S. Army and served in World War II. After retirement, Ruiz lived at the Yountville Veterans Home until he died in 2009 at the age 85.