112th Congress
“By constructing this needed county library and senior center, the project will create jobs and improve the quality of life in Middletown,” said Rep. Thompson.
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. When completed, the Napa Vine Trail will be one of the premier transportation systems in the country, connecting the entire Napa Valley from the Vallejo Ferry Terminal to Calistoga.
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.
The Obama administration is counting on community health centers, which currently care for one in six of the nation's uninsured, to play a key role as federal health care reform extends coverage to some 32 million Americans by 2014.