114th Congress
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was back on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to urge Congress to expand gun control laws and require background checks for all commercial gun sales.
"Now is the time to come together and be responsible. Democrats, Republicans, everyone," she said. "We must never stop fighting. Fight! Fight! Fight!"
Republican gun reformers aren't expecting any support from leadership on legislation to expand background checks for all commercial gun sales reintroduced in the House on Wednesday.
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) who co-authored the Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2015 with Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), said he hasn't spoken with GOP leaders about his bill, but he acknowledged they will almost certainly oppose it.
"I don't expect to get their support," he said.
A bipartisan group of legislators reintroduced a gun control bill Wednesday, nearly two years after the U.S. Senate failed to pass a measure that would have closed the federal loophole in the background checks system.
The four Republicans and four Democrats who are co-sponsoring the measure are seeking to expand background checks to prevent criminals and people with severe mental illnesses from buying guns during every commercial sale. A loophole in the federal system currently allows people to buy firearms sold online and at gun shows without first passing a background check.
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today introduced H. RES. 137, a bipartisan resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives honoring March as Women's History Month. The origins of Women's History Month begin in Thompson's district.
Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords will join Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., to announce the reintroduction of Thompson's bill to expand background checks on gun buyers, a measure that failed to get a vote in the House last year.
The bill, co-authored by Thompson and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., does not ban any type of weapons, but would require background checks for all firearms sales, including transactions at gun shows, over the Internet and by newspaper ads.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is returning to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to help kick-start a longshot campaign to expand criminal background checks to all commercial firearms sales.
Similar legislation that sought to expand background checks failed to get a hearing in the House last session. With the GOP expanding its majority and winning control of the Senate, prospects for the bill may be even more unlikely this session.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) announced that the U.S. Department of Defense has today issued a rule to implement Thompson's legislative provision requiring every American flag purchased by the Department of Defense (DOD) to be 100 percent manufactured in the United States, from articles, materials, or supplies that are 100 percent of grown, produced or manufactured in the United States. Thompson's provision passed last Congress as part of H.R.
Rep. Mike Thompson announced Monday that the U.S. Department of Defense has issued a rule to implement Thompson's legislative provision requiring every American flag purchased by the Department of Defense to be 100 percent manufactured in the United States.
The law requires that these flags come from articles, materials or supplies that are 100 percent grown, produced or manufactured in the United States.
Thompson's provision passed last Congress as part of H.R. 3547, the Fiscal Year 2014 omnibus appropriations bill, and was signed into law by the president in January 2014.
Rep. Mike Thompson announced Monday that the U.S. Department of Defense has issued a rule to implement Thompson's legislative provision requiring every American flag purchased by the Department of Defense to be 100 percent manufactured in the United States.
The law requires that these flags come from articles, materials or supplies that are 100 percent grown, produced or manufactured in the United States.
Thompson's provision passed last Congress as part of H.R. 3547, the Fiscal Year 2014 omnibus appropriations bill, and was signed into law by the president in January 2014.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) announced that the U.S. Department of Defense has issued a rule to implement Thompson's legislative provision requiring every American flag purchased by the Department of Defense (DOD) to be 100 percent manufactured in the United States, from articles, materials, or supplies that are 100 percent of grown, produced or manufactured in the United States.
Thompson's provision passed last Congress as part of H.R. 3547, the Fiscal Year 2014 omnibus appropriations bill, and was signed into law by the president in January 2014.