114th Congress
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today announced a $2.625 million Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Department of Education (ED) grant for Napa Valley College (NVC). The grant will be paid over a five-year period. The Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program provides grants to assist HSIs to expand educational opportunities for all students and with a special focus on improving the educational attainment of Hispanic college students.
Napa Valley College has received a $2.625 million Hispanic-Serving Institutions Department of Education grant to improve services for immigrant students.
The grant, which will be paid out over five years, will help the college to expand educational opportunities for all students and with a special focus on improving the educational attainment of Hispanic students. The college will be able to expand and enhance its academic offerings and program quality.
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5), Chair of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, today called on Congressional Republicans to act on commonsense gun violence prevention laws in the aftermath of another mass shooting, this time at Umpqua Community College (UCC) in Roseberg, Oregon.
WASHINGTON -- Nearly 150 members of Congress wrote to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday, urging him to take up legislation that would help stem gun violence.
I was working on the East Coast when I received news of an unprecedented wildfire in southern Lake County. The Valley Fire, as it would come to be known, was growing at an extreme rate. When my emergency flight back to California landed, more than 50,000 acres had already been engulfed, and the fire was only 5 percent contained.
As I drove through communities that I’ve represented for 25 years, the smell of smoke filled the air. Fires were still raging in the distance. And once vibrant communities looked like long-deserted ghost towns.
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today announced a $279,467 Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Fair Housing Initiative Program (FHIP) grant for Greater Napa Valley Fair Housing Center (GNVFHC). This grant will fund the agency's fair housing enforcement, education and outreach work. This includes the implementation of fair housing investigations, trainings and presentations, and related activities that promote GNVFHC's mission to eliminate housing discrimination and ensure equal housing opportunity for all people.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson today announced a $258,600 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services for the Sonoma Valley Community Health Center.
“Sonoma Valley Community Health Center is a patient-focused organization that provides top-notch services to people throughout our valley,” said Thompson. “This funding will help them to further expand their dental services, and allow them to continue offering quality health care services to our community.”
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today announced a $258,600 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for Sonoma Valley Community Health Center (SVCHC).
"Sonoma Valley Community Health Center is a patient-focused organization that provides top-notch services to people throughout our valley," said Thompson. "This funding will help them to further expand their dental services, and allow them to continue offering quality health care services to our community."
The governor would be wise to scrap his crusade to build massive water tunnels beneath the California Delta, say seven members of Congress, all Democrats.
The governor’s plan to build the multibillion-dollar twin tunnels fails to increase the water supply, will devastate an already fragile Delta ecosystem, and will divert money from more effective statewide water solutions for California, say the lawmakers in a letter to Gov. Edmund Brown Jr.
Dear Friends,
Our community was recently devastated one of the top-three worst fires in California's history. The Valley Fire, which started on September 12, 2015, has burned nearly 80,000 acres. Thousands of people were forced to evacuate. More than a 1,200 homes, 23 multi-family residences and 68 commercial properties were burnt to the ground. At least four people lost their lives. Many families were left with nothing.