113th Congress
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA-5) led a bipartisan letter with Rep. Pete King (R-NY-2) to President Barack Obama requesting that he require all federal agencies to only buy American flags that are 100 percent made in America, by American workers, using American grown and manufactured materials.
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA-5) led a bipartisan letter with Rep. Pete King (R-NY-2) to President Barack Obama requesting that he require all federal agencies to only buy American flags that are 100 percent made in America, by American workers, using American grown and manufactured materials.
LAKE COUNTY -- Congressman Mike Thompson commended the Senate for passing bipartisan legislation to extend unemployment insurance for nearly 3 million Americans, including more than 514,000 Californians.
The Senate passed the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act by a vote of 59 to 38, which retroactively extends emergency unemployment insurance through the end of May.
WASHINGTON—Congressmen Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena), Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael), Sam Farr (D-Carmel), and Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale), applauded the U.S. Sentencing Commission for taking action to increase public safety and stop the environmental destruction caused by trespass marijuana grows on our public and private lands. The U.S.
WASHINGTON D.C. – In one week, a bipartisan group of more than 100 additional Members of Congress signed on as co-authors of U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson’s (CA-5) legislation that would transfer the management of Lake Berryessa from the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The bill, H.R. 4166, now has 165 co-authors.
Lake County's House of Representatives members, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) and Rep. John Garamendi (CA-3), on Thursday joined a bipartisan group of representatives in voting against H.Con.Res. 96, the House Majority’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 budget authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (WI-1).
The budget resolution passed by a vote of 219-205.
No Democrats voted for the resolution and 12 Republicans voted against the resolution.
The Senate will not pass H.Con.Res. 96, and if they did, the president would veto it, the congressmen reported.
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today announced that he has joined the bipartisan TRIO Caucus. The caucus advocates for the Federal TRIO Programs and higher education access for low-income, first-generation students, and students with disabilities. The goal of the caucus is to generate support for TRIO programs from congressional offices, the US Department of Education, and other entities.
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today joined a bipartisan group of representatives in voting against H.Con.Res. 96, the House Majority’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 budget authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (WI-1). The budget resolution passed by a vote of 219-205. No Democrats voted for the resolution and 12 Republicans voted against the resolution. The Senate will not pass H.Con.Res. 96, and if they did, the President would veto it.
Though the House Majority’s Fiscal Year 2015 budget was passed by the House today, Sonoma Valley’s U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, who voted against it, said the Senate will not pass the budget, and if it did, the President would veto it.
“This reckless spending plan will kill jobs, end the guarantee of Medicare for America’s seniors, raises taxes on middle-class families while rewarding the wealthy and corporations that ship jobs overseas, gut our education system and make college more expensive for hard working families,” said Thompson.
By Peter Jensen
A bill from U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson that would make sweeping changes to recreation at Lake Berryessa has built support in Congress and Napa County.
The legislation proposes to take management of recreation at the lake from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), which has had that responsibility since Napa County relinquished it in the 1970s, and give it to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Reclamation would continue to operate and maintain Monticello Dam.