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Thompson Applauds Announcement of Over $600 Million in Funding for Climate Resilience

By Wine Country Times Report | Jun 21, 2023

On June 20, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-04) released the following statement after President Joe Biden and California Governor Gavin Newsom announced over $600 million from the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is being rolled out to communities throughout California and across the country for climate resilience projects

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Thompson, Matsui, Schweikert, Johnson, Schatz, Wicker Introduce Telehealth Permanence Bill

By Wine Country Times Report | Jun 16, 2023

On June 15, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-04), Doris Matsui (CA-07), David Schweikert (AZ-01), Bill Johnson (OH-06), and Senators Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Roger Wicker (R-MI) introduced the bipartisan and bicameral CONNECT for Health Act, legislation that would expand telehealthaccess for millions of Americans on Medicare

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Huffman, Gallagher, Nunn Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Incentivize Use of Soil Health Cropping Systems

By Wine Country Times Report | Jun 16, 2023

Reps. Jared Huffman (D-CA), Mike Gallagher (R-WI), and Zach Nunn (R-IA) on June 15 introduced the Naturally Offsetting Emissions by Managing and Implementing Tillage Strategies (NO EMITS) Act, a bill that would create incentives for producers to transition their farms to soil health cropping systems

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California Attorney General Bonta: 'State-sanctioned kidnapping is not a public policy'

By Wine Country Times Report | Jun 15, 2023

A group of 16 South American migrants who entered the U.S. through Texas, were allegedly flown via chartered plane to California and abandoned outside a church in Sacramento.

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Thompson, McBath, Clyburn, Jeffries Announce Gun Violence Prevention Legislation Strategy

By Wine Country Times Report | Jun 15, 2023

On June 13, Gun Violence Prevention Task Force ChairmanRep. Mike Thompson (CA-04), Task Force Vice Chair Rep. Lucy McBath (GA-07), Assistant Democratic Leader Jim Clyburn (SC-06), and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) announced a legislative strategy on gun violence prevention

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Reps. Huffman and Peters, Sens. Padilla and Feinstein Lead California Members Urging Epa to Tighten Air Quality Standards While Preserving the Use of Prescribed Burns for Catastrophic Wildfire Prevention

By Wine Country Times Report | Jun 15, 2023

As millions of Americans confront heavy wildfire smoke, Representative Jared Huffman (D-Calif.-02) and U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.)—as well as Representative Scott Peters (D-Calif.-50) and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)—led 21 of their colleagues in sending a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) urging them to allow the deployment of prescribed fires as EPA tightens federal health-based air quality standards

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Bicameral, Bipartisan Bill Introduced to Prepare Homeowners for Natural Disaster

By Wine Country Times Report | Jun 14, 2023

On June 13, Representatives Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) and Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) introduced the bicameral, bipartisan Disaster Mitigation and Tax Parity Act, legislation that will exempt from federal taxes rebates that homeowners receive for hardening their homes against natural disasters. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) led the Senate companion bill

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Huffman, Cohen, Merkley Introduce Bill to Keep Families and Pets Safe From Hazardous Cyanide Bombs

By Wine Country Times Report | Jun 14, 2023

On June 13, United States Representatives Jared Huffman (CA-02) and Steve Cohen (TN-09) and U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) re-introduced Canyon’s Law, legislation to ban from public lands the M-44 ejector – a spring-loaded device filled with sodium cyanide used to kill predatory animals and pest species

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Huffman, Heinrich, Degette, and Lawmakers Call on Interior to Implement and Strengthen Proposed Conservation and Landscape Health Rule

By Wine Country Times Report | Jun 13, 2023

On June 12, United States Representatives Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) and U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) led a letter from lawmakers in the Senate and House to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland calling to support the completion of rulemaking and implementation of the proposed “Conservation and Landscape Health” rule for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

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Thompson, Kelly Introduce Legislation to Increase Participation in Labor Market

By Wine Country Times Report | Jun 10, 2023

This week, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-04) and Rep. Mike Kelly (PA-16) introduced H.R. 3702, the Access Technology Affordability Act. The legislation provides a refundable $2,000 credit to blind and vision impaired people to purchase equipment that allows them to work

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Reps. Huffman, Levin to Introduce Bills to Protect Pacific & Arctic Oceans From Offshore Drilling

By Wine Country Times Report | Jun 10, 2023

Legislation to Protect U.S. Coasts From New Oil and Gas Drilling

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Ways and Means Committee Passes Thompson-Smith Legislation to Streamline Affordable Care Act Reporting Requirements

By Wine Country Times Report | Jun 9, 2023

On June 7, the House Ways and Means Committee passed Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-04) and Rep. Adrian Smith’s (NE-03) Employer Reporting Improvement Act with a bipartisan vote

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Huffman Announces $2 Million From Inflation Reduction Act Awarded to Greater Farallones

By Wine Country Times Report | Jun 9, 2023

Funding Part of Biden-Harris Administration’s $2.6 Billion Framework to Build Climate Resilience and Support Coastal Communities

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Thompson, Gun Violence Prevention Task Force Hold Congressional Forum on Epidemic of Gun Violence

By Wine Country Times Report | Jun 8, 2023

This week, House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force Chairman Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-04) and members of the task force hosted a Congressional forum on the epidemic of gun violence

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Thompson Announces New Staff Serving Solano County

By Wine Country Times Report | Jun 7, 2023

On June 2, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-04) announced that Kimberly (Kim) Fu will be joining his office to serve as a Field Representative for Solano County

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Thompson Votes to Avoid Catastrophic Default

By Wine Country Times Report | Jun 2, 2023

On June 1, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-04) voted to pass H.R. 3746, the Bipartisan Budget Agreement, to avoid a catastrophic default and protect America’s economy

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Rep. Huffman to Vote Against Republican’s Shameful Debt Ceiling Deal

By Wine Country Times Report | Jun 1, 2023

Representative Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) released the following statement on his plan to vote against H.R. 3746, the legislative agreement to suspend the debt ceiling for 18 months in return for a host of Democratic spending and policy concessions

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Thompson Releases Statement on Bipartisan Budget Agreement

By Wine Country Times Report | Jun 1, 2023

On May 30, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-04) released the following statement on the Bipartisan Budget Agreement

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Huffman Announces Over $1.45 Million to California’s Second District Through Investing in America Agenda for Cleanup and Technical Assistance at Polluted Brownfield Sites

By Wine Country Times Report | May 27, 2023

Funding is Part of $4.4 Million to Northern California From Epa’s Largest Investment Ever in Brownfield Communities

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Thompson Releases Statement in Commemoration of One Year Since Uvalde Massacre

By Wine Country Times Report | May 26, 2023

On May 24, Chairman of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task ForceRep. Mike Thompson (CA-04) released the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and 2 teachers were murdered