Mike Thompson: “fixing the budget is not the final solution, certainly not the full solution.”

I rise on behalf of thousands of California wildfire survivors. My district knows too well the devastation survivors of the southern California fires are facing. People have lost everything, and not just their homes and their belongings…

The supremacy clause always prevails. And I will redraft SB 254 and introduce it again next session.

The ESA has become a one-size-fits-all approach to species management.

Mr. Speaker, this bill shamelessly hurts our constituents, cuts healthcare for 17 million Americans, and closes one in four nursing homes and many rural hospitals. It rips nutrition assistance away from 11 million Americans, and it cedes…