118th Congress
Today, Reps. Mike Thompson (CA-04) and John Garamendi (CA-08) announced that Contra Costa County’s Transition Aged Youth Diversion Program is receiving the $1,000,000 that the representatives secured as a Community Project Funding request.
Today, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-04) announced that the Department of Veterans Affairs has extended the deadline through Monday, August 14, for veterans, their families, and survivors to apply for PACT Act benefits backdated to August 10, 2022.
Today, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-04) announced that over 100 veterans, their families, or survivors registered for PACT Act benefits at his two town hall events in Vacaville and Santa Rosa.
Yesterday, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-04) held a press conference at the Dixon Tractor Supply Company store to highlight the importance of safe storage for firearms and to ensure that gun owners are not discouraged from purchasing gun safes because of high tariffs.
Today, Gun Violence Prevention Task Force Chairman Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-04) led 109 members of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force in calling on House Speaker Kevin McCarthyto schedule votes on gun violence prevention bills as soon as possible.
Today, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-04) released the following statement after the former president was indicted on four counts related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the subsequent insurrection on January 6, 2021.
Today, Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-04), Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), Congressman Brian Higgins (NY-26), and Congresswoman Jen Kiggans (VA-02) announced the introduction of the Nurse Corps Tax Parity Act of 2023 to ensure tax-status parity between the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) and Nurse Corps programs by amending the Internal Revenue Code to create parity in tax treatment for these two scholarship and loan repayment systems.
Today, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-04), Senators Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla, and Rep. Doug LaMalfa (CA-01) announced the introduction of the Agricultural Emergency Relief Act to create a permanent structure at the Department of Agriculture to provide relief for farmers who lost crops due to natural disasters.
Last week, Gun Violence Prevention Task Force Chairman Rep. Mike Thompson joined Representative Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), along with Representatives Madeleine Dean (D-PA) and Brad Schneider (D-IL) as co-leads, to reintroduce the Ghost Guns and Untraceable Firearms Act (H.R. 4992), legislation to ban dangerous “ghost” guns.
Today, Reps. Mike Thompson (CA-04) and Doug LaMalfa (CA-01) introduced a revised version of their bipartisan legislation that would shield thousands of fire victims from taxation on compensation received in the aftermath of a wildfire. This protection would cover payments made from the Fire Victim Trust, a $13.5 billion wildfire settlement for nearly 70,000 victims of the 2018 Camp Fire, 2017 North Bay Wildfires, and the 2015 Butte Fire.