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Thompson Announces 2018 Congressional App Challenge Open to CA-05 middle and high school students
Washington – Today Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05) announced that he is accepting applications for the 2018 Congressional App Challenge in California’s Fifth Congressional District. The challenge is open to middle and high school-aged students who either live or attend school in the district.
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Thompson Announces His Office Now Accepting Applications for Service Academy Nominations Process for 2019 class now underway
Washington – Today Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05) announced that he is now accepting applications from residents from his district ages 17-23 who would like to attend one of our nation’s four military service academies that require a nomination. Those schools include the United States Military Academy at West Point, the United States Naval Academy, the United States Air Force Academy, and the United States Merchant Marine Academy.
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Thompson Slams Republicans for Rejecting His Disaster Tax Relief Amendment Denounces underlying tax 2.0 bill
Washington – Today Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05) slammed Republicans on the House Committee on Ways and Means for unanimously rejecting his amendment to provide targeted tax relief for victims of natural disasters.
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Thompson Tours Lake Berryessa with Interior Department, Discusses Managing Partner Agreement
Washington – Today Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05) announced that he met with Department of Interior and Bureau of Reclamation officials to tour Lake Berryessa and discuss the progress of negotiations on the Managing Partner Agreement (MPA) to operate recreation areas at the lake with Napa County.
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Thompson Announces FEMA Disaster Declaration for Mendocino Complex Fires Includes individual assistance available to survivors
Washington – Today Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05) announced that the President has issued a major disaster declaration for Lake County for the Ranch and River Fires, commonly known as the Mendocino Complex fires. This declaration allows federal funds to be available to help Lake County survivors recover and rebuild from the Mendocino Complex fires, which began on July 27, 2018 and continue to burn across the region.
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Thompson and Huffman Announce $99 Million in Federal Funding for Fire Recovery Awarded locales include Sonoma County and the city of Napa
Washington – Today Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05) and Rep. Jared Huffman (CA-02) announced that California has been awarded $99.324 million that must be spent on disaster recovery across the state, including in Sonoma County and part of the City of Napa.
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Thompson, Garamendi, Huffman, and 22 California Members Request Wildfire Disaster Declaration Cite catastrophic scope of Mendocino Complex, Steele Fires
Washington – Today Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05), Rep. John Garamendi (CA-03), Rep. Jared Huffman (CA-02) and 22 other Republicans and Democrats in the California delegation, including Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA-23) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (CA-12), wrote to the President asking him to immediately grant California’s request for a Major Disaster Declaration for the destructive wildfires that have hit Lake, Mendocino, and Napa Counties over the past two weeks.
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Thompson, Gun Violence Prevention Task Force Demand State Department Ban Publication of Gun Blueprints Cite extreme danger of 3-D-printed guns to the public
Washington – Today Chair of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force Mike Thompson (CA-05), and Vice Chairs Rep. Jose Serrano (NY-15), Rep. David Price (NC-04), Rep. Bobby Scott (VA-04), Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18), Rep. Grace Napolitano (CA-32), Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07), Rep. Jackie Speier (CA-14), Rep. Richard Nolan (MN-08), Rep. David N. Cicilline (RI-01), Rep. Elizabeth Esty (CT-05), Rep. Robin Kelly (IL-02), Rep. Kathleen Rice (NY-04), and Rep Val Demings (FL-10) wrote to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo demanding he reverse his position that would allow Defense Distributed the ability to publish the blueprints for 3-D-printed guns online, outside of background checks and licensing processes, and untraceable by law enforcement. Text of the letter is below and a copy is attached.
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Thompson’s Amendment Directing Navy to Mitigate Wetlands on Mare Island Passes the House Legislation helps provide economic development opportunity
Washington – Today, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05) announced that his legislation providing a plan to restore land on Mare Island that the U.S. Navy previously used as a firing range passed as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act
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Thompson, Veterans Decry President’s Summit with Putin Call on president to denounce Putin, support intelligence community
Washington – Today Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05), a Vietnam combat veteran, joined other military veteran members of Congress, including Rep. Peter DeFazio (OR-04), Rep. Ruben Gallego (AZ-07), Rep. Ted Lieu (CA-33), Rep. Anthony Brown (MD-04), and Rep. Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) in denouncing the President’s rhetoric at a summit with Putin in Helsinki.