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Mike Thompson

 
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California's 4th District
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Representative Offices
Address
2721 Napa Valley Corporate Dr.
City/State/Zip
Napa CA, 94558
Phone
707-226-9898
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707-251-9800
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M-F 9-5:30pm
Address
2300 County Center Dr.
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Suite A100
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Santa Rosa CA, 95403
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707-542-7182
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707-542-2745
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Mon-Fri 9am-5:30pm
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420 Virginia St.
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Suite 1C
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Vallejo CA, 94590
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707-645-1888
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707-645-1870
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Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm
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622 Main Street
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News
09/29/2024 --kron4
The stopgap farm bill is set to expire next week — and the congressional coalition that the massive legislation has relied on for half a century is on the verge of breaking down. Now congressional negotiators are desperately racing against long odds to minimize the damage before benefits run out at the end of the [...]
09/26/2024 --kron4
House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn "G.T." Thompson (R-Pa.) is meeting with congressional leaders on agriculture policy Thursday to try to secure a last-minute deal on passing the Farm Bill. Earlier Thursday, Thompson had joined dozens of House Republicans in pressing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to schedule a vote on the massive, five-year legislation before the [...]
09/26/2024 --abc4
House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn "G.T." Thompson (R-Pa.) is meeting with congressional leaders on agricultural policy Thursday to try to secure a last-minute deal on passing the farm bill. Earlier Thursday, Thompson joined dozens of House Republicans in pressing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to schedule a vote on the massive, five-year legislation before the end [...]
09/22/2024 --kron4
The students of Springfield, Ohio, are caught in a mess they had nothing to do with. Schools had to shut down for multiple days after 33 separate bomb threats, and two universities moved classes online after threats of a shooting, one specifically targeting "members of the Haitian community," after baseless accusations of immigrants eating people's [...]
09/17/2024 --roanoke
The town and the county unanimously approved an agreement Tuesday that includes a variety of changes involving water, land and emergency services.
09/09/2024 --qctimes
Two 25th Ward aldermen illustrate how intractable graft is in Chicago’s City Council, a legislative body always vying to be most corrupt in America.
08/24/2024 --huffpost
The GOP presidential nominee is laying the groundwork to deny the results of another election, raising alarms about a Jan. 6 repeat in 2025.
08/21/2024 --dailybreeze
Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz and former President Bill Clinton will headline the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday.
08/20/2024 --sun_sentinel
Two appointees of Gov. Ron DeSantis lost their bids for election on the Broward School Board Tuesday night, solidifying the board's liberal majority. Daniel Foganholi and Torey Alston hoped a bipartisan group of backers would help them maintain their south Broward seats.
08/03/2024 --axios
A massive wildfire in northern California is a symptom of the American West's suffering from climate whiplash — oscillating between periods of extremely wet and dry conditions exacerbated by a warming atmosphere.Why it matters: This whiplash, coupled with decades of land management practices that have strictly limited fire from the landscape, is increasingly creating conditions in some places for destructive and devastating fires.Several studies point to a future with more frequent shifts between wet and dry extremes.There is an "increase in this hydro-climate whiplash" and it creates an ideal scenario for worsening wildfires by growing vegetation then burning it, says Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA.Driving the news: The Park Fire that began in Butte County in northern California has burned more than 397,000 acres, making it the fourth-largest fire in California's history. Authorities say they think the fire began from an act of arson. CalFire says 95% of wildfires are caused by people.How it happened: Most of California wasn't in a drought at the start of the fire season.The majority of its reservoirs were above their average level from a wet winter punctuating back-to-back years with significant rainfall that broke 25-year records in some places. This wet period followed an extreme, two-decade-long drought that exceeded the severity of any observed for more than a millennia. The wet winter spurred the growth of fast-growing shrubs and grasses.Then one of the hottest springs in recent history turned into one of the hottest summers on record.An extreme, long-lasting heat wave that stretched from June into July extracted "a tremendous amount of water" out of the soil and plants, especially those at lower elevations, "drying it out to the point of it being a kiln," Swain says.The sustained heat and extraction of moisture from the landscape is an "unprecedented combination of conditions," he says."It's a combination that seems incongruous," Swain says. But it is also one that "we're starting to see as thirstiness of atmosphere increases with warming."Many locations in California had their warmest July on record, for example, with some setting milestones for their warmest month of any month in history. How it works: As Earth's atmosphere warms from human-caused climate change, it can evaporate and carry more water, producing more intense rains that fuel the growth of vegetation.At the same time, decades of suppressing natural fires and cultural burning in some places has allowed for unchecked plant growth and dense forests, experts tell Axios."The natural fire deficit is the problem" because it results in denser fuel, Swain says. "Then climate change comes along and kiln dries that extra fuel."Flashback: There are indications of climate whiplash and its relationship to fire in California's past climate.Scientists studying an almost 9,000-year-old stalagmite in a cave in California's Santa Cruz mountains saw an increase in markers of fire in the stalagmite's chemistry alongside what they suspect was an increase in climate whiplash. "Timing-wise, we think the climate whiplash increase came first and then was followed by probably a change in vegetation above the cave, and then the fire," says Jessica Oster, a paleoclimate researcher and professor at Vanderbilt University. The climate whiplash then was "ultimately driven by melting of ice and water flow into the North Atlantic, which is happening right now as well," Oster says. However, now that same dynamic is playing out due to human-driven warming. The big picture: In California, wildfires have burned more than 750,000 acres, compared to the five-year average of just 141,000 acres, so far this year, and the Park Fire is just one of 89 large fires burning across the West.A recent study found the frequency and magnitude of extreme wildfire events more than doubled in the past two decades, Axios' Andrew Freedman reported.The area burned by wildfires in the western U.S. has "increased by a factor of four since the 1970s" and is attributable to human-caused climate change, says Mike Flannigan, a professor of wildland fire at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia. "I cannot be any clearer than that."A warmer world also means more lightning — a key source of ignition for wildfires in certain ecosystems, Flannigan says. As another heat wave builds across the West, the risk of dry lightning — and new fire starts — is increasing, Swain posted on X.What to watch: Each wildfire has its distinctive characteristics, including a mix of past fire management practices, vegetation and climate, says Alexandra Syphard, a senior research ecologist at the Conservation Biology Institute."There is no one-size-fits-all prediction for fire futures in California or a single strategy to mitigate fire risk to people, infrastructure, and ecosystem resilience," Syphard and her colleagues write in a paper published on Monday in the journal PNAS.Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect the Park Fire has grown to the fourth largest fire in California's history.
07/31/2024 --helenair
Valley View Home in Glasgow, one of the few nursing homes on the Hi-Line, aims to take on more patients and staff, bit by bit.
07/29/2024 --gazettetimes
A coalition of 17 youth-led groups endorsed Kamala Harris, and groups in several states thanked President Joe Biden for stepping aside.
07/26/2024 --siouxcityjournal
In a split decision, the Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday rejected a challenge to the law that added restrictions for abortion and gender-affirming surgeries for transgender youths.
07/24/2024 --bismarcktribune
In 2021, he referred to Democrats as "a bunch of childless cat ladies." He's also said parents should have more political say than people who don't have kids.
07/24/2024 --journalstar
The city has started replacing lead pipes in 16 homes in the Woods Park neighborhood for free as part of a city-led initiative bolstered by a $32.6 million federal loan.
07/23/2024 --washingtontimes
The head of the Pennsylvania State Police told Congress on Tuesday that the planning for former President Donald Trump's July 13 rally was no different from dozens of other events coordinated with the Secret Service.
07/23/2024 --bismarcktribune
From “brat summer” to “coconut tree,” a tidal wave of Kamala Harris memes are flooding social media timelines. Here’s a primer to get in the know.
07/22/2024 --bismarcktribune
The presidential campaign seemed destined to be a slog featuring two candidates, Biden and Trump, who voters didn't really want. That changed on Sunday, just 107 days before the election.
07/21/2024 --bismarcktribune
Lawmakers are reviewing the Legislature’s workplace harassment policy following a rise in complaints to the North Dakota Ethics Commission.
07/18/2024 --axios
Top Democrats are convinced President Biden is likely to step aside as early as this weekend to make way for another Democratic presidential nominee.Why it matters: If he does, Democrats will be forced to make a swift decision that would determine the fate — and the future — of the party for 2024 and beyond.The big picture: There's a movement underway among some Democratic officials and operatives to bypass Vice President Harris as Biden's successor — or at least make the nomination a contest rather than a coronation. They're floating names like Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, or California Gov. Gavin Newsom.Reality check: There are at least five reasons the mission to bypass Harris is unlikely to succeed.1. Money: The Biden campaign's war chest — $91 million as of the last filing in June — could easily be transferred to Harris but not to any other candidate.The roughly $150 million held by other Biden-aligned entities could hypothetically move to another Democrat, and there may be other ways to repurpose that $91 million. But it's all much simpler if Harris is nominated.2. History: As a Black and Asian American woman, Harris is already a history-making VP. She could be the first woman president.She's also already first in the line of succession, meaning a party that relies on Black women as the core of its support would have to pass over a Black woman to nominate someone else.Party elders including former DNC Chair Donna Brazile have warned that would cause an "uproar." Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), told Axios' Hans Nichols it could "be the kiss of death for the party."3. Expected endorsements: Party heavyweights including Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) have already said they'll back Harris if Biden drops.The Obamas and Clintons would likely throw their weight behind Harris too, particularly if Biden endorses her first, Axios' Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei reported.4. Party unity: Senior Democrats have moved very cautiously in their mission to convince Biden to go. Many aren't ready to plunge into the unknown by letting multiple candidates fight it out one month before the convention.A convention fight could get ugly, fast. Some Democrats and liberal columnists have warned it could even cause a lasting schism.The DNC is moving to finalize a virtual roll call for the party's nominee by early August — a move originally intended to lock in Biden that could instead end up neutralizing any effort to unseat Harris at the convention in Chicago.5. Legitimacy: The Biden-Harris ticket won 14 million votes and swept the (largely uncontested) primaries.She's the only potential candidate who can claim to have won her party's backing at the ballot box, rather than in a backroom or on a convention floor.State of play: Harris-skeptic Democrats cite polls that show her hardly faring better than Biden against former President Trump, and there's general skepticism that she's the best candidate to carry the Midwest battlegrounds of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.Harris' backers argue her recent campaign and media appearances show she'd be a formidable nominee.The bottom line: Either way, she's got the inside track. If Biden drops out, even Democrats concerned about her electability will likely fall in line.
07/16/2024 --axios
Democratic members of Congress are reviving a fight over President Biden's candidacy following a brief respite in the wake of Saturday's assassination attempt against former President Trump, Axios has learned.Why it matters: Some lawmakers are uneasy about the Democratic National Committee's plans to forge ahead with a virtual roll call vote to nominate Biden weeks before the Democratic convention."People are back to being angry at Biden and a push to sign on to this letter is going around ... the 'replace Biden' movement is back," a House Democrat told Axios.Driving the news: A letter circulating among congressional Democrats argues that there is "no legal justification" for an early virtual roll call after Ohio moved its filing deadline past the date of the Democratic convention."We respectfully but emphatically request that you cancel any plans for an accelerated 'virtual roll call' and further refrain from any extraordinary procedures that could be perceived as curtailing legitimate debate," it says.The DNC moved toward a virtual vote before the debate in response to Ohio threatening to not put Biden on the ballot because the party's convention was after their deadline. Ohio changed the rule, but the DNC has pushed forward — arguing that the legislature could in theory reverse itself."The suggestion that the timeline for the virtual roll call has been accelerated is false," DNC Chair Jaime Harrison said in a statement to Axios. "The timeline for the virtual roll call process remains on schedule and unchanged from when the DNC made that decision in May."A full copy of the draft letter, details of which were first reported by the New York Times, was obtained by Axios:Zoom in: Reps. Susan Wild (D-Pa.), Mike Quigley (D-Ill) and Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) told Axios they plan to sign onto the letter. Quigley and Ryan have both publicly called on Biden to withdraw.Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.), who told Biden he should drop out during a call with Hispanic Caucus members on Friday, will sign the letter as well, his spokesperson told Axios.One House Democrat told Axios they have received the letter and are considering signing on, and a senior aide to another House Democrat said their boss will sign on.Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), who told Biden on a Progressive Caucus call last Saturday that he worries the president is being shielded from bad news, has been circulating the letter to colleagues, according to one lawmaker.Between the lines: In an interview with Axios, Huffman declined to speak about the letter beyond denying that he personally drafted it, but said the early roll call can "only be for political reasons.""I just think it's a terrible idea for the DNC to do this, I just think people see right through it, and at a time when we have this huge enthusiasm gap with the Republicans, to do a stunt like this is just going to make it worse," he said.Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), the first House Democrat to call for Biden to drop out, said in a statement he is "working with Jared Huffman and other colleagues to oppose short-circuiting the nomination process."Doggett added, "Such misguided DNC action would be contrary to President Biden's own recommendation that those seeking an alternative nominee come to the Convention."The other side: The Biden campaign pointed Axios to the president's repeated declarations to lawmakers that he will not drop his reelection bid.The campaign also noted that Biden has received public pronouncements of support from dozens of House and Senate Democrats and is campaigning in Nevada with several Congressional Black Caucus members.State of play: The DNC's virtual roll call is likely to start on July 29 and conclude by Aug. 5, two weeks before the Democratic convention begins on Aug. 19, Axios' Hans Nichols and Alex Thompson reported.That means Biden would only only need to withstand internal opposition and criticism towards his candidacy for another two weeks.Editor's note: This story has been updated with comment from Rep. Lloyd Doggett and further details.
 
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