Washington, DC—U. S. Representative Glenn `GT’ Thompson, R-Howard, today announced the Federal Aviation Administration has awarded $627,000 to the Williamsport Municipal Airport Authority to extend a taxiway.The funds will be used to complete a 700-foot section of taxiway bravo to...
May 2009 Archives
Congressman Pence, thank you for your hard work and leadership on this issue. Pennsylvania led the way in the use of coal, natural gas and oil for industrial, commercial, and residential use and built the country’s first nondefense nuclear reactor at...
DuBois—U.S. Representative Glenn `GT’ Thompson, R-Howard, said the legislation in Congress to create a cap and trade system will devastate our already strained economy, especially in Rural Pennsylvania.Thompson told the press gathered in DuBois, “I believe there is not much...
Washington, DC—U.S. Representative Glenn `GT’ Thompson, R-Howard, today joined Reps. Steve LaTourette (R-Ohio) and Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), in a press conference to discuss their letter to President Barack Obama asking that his Auto Task Force be returned to an advisory...
Washington, DC—A measure to encourage job creation in this nation passed the House of Representatives today.Included in that bill, (H.R. 2352), The Job Creation through Entrepreneurship Act of 2009, was a bill by U.S. Representative Glenn `GT’ Thompson, R-Howard, which...
Washington, DC—U.S. Representative Glenn `GT’ Thompson, R-Howard, today announced that the Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a $22,117 grant to Clarion University, for an advanced education nursing traineeship.The grant, which is awarded under the Health Resources Services...
Pittsburgh—U.S. Representative Glenn `GT’ Thompson, R-Howard, said today, “Generals and privates alike say that more often than not, soldiers fight for their buddies, not for some policy, goal, or skirmish line set by politicians. There can be no greater example...
Washington, DC—U.S. Representative Glenn `GT’ Thompson, R-Howard, today announced that Hobart K. Kistler of Centre Hall, Pennsylvania has accepted a fully qualified appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.“It is a pleasure and an honor to make this...
Washington, DC—U.S. Representative Glenn `GT’ Thompson today announced he is accepting academy nomination applications to the U.S. Military Academies for 2010.“Each year I have the privilege of nominating a limited number of people to four of the five service academies. ...
Washington, DC—U.S. Representative Glenn `GT’ Thompson, R-Howard, today used a parliamentary procedure on the floor of the House of Representatives to add a deficit trigger into a bill called The 21st Century Green High-Performing Public School Facilities Act (H.R. 2187). ...
Washington, DC—U.S. Representative Glenn `GT’ Thompson today announced the Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a grant to the Pennsylvania State University Population Research Institute and Graduate Program in Demography that will enable them to train pre- and...
Washington, DC—U.S. Representative Glenn `GT’ Thompson today reminded fire companies in the 5th District that the deadline for submitting applications for Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) is May 20th, 2009, at 5 p.m. Guidance for submissions is available on the...
Washington, DC—U.S. Representative Glenn `GT’ Thompson today joined his colleagues in the American Energy Solutions Group in a public summit to oppose the Democrat’s misguided national energy tax, called Cap and Trade.“The truth behind the cap and tax plan is...
WASHINGTON, DC –Congressmen Glenn `GT’ Thompson (R-Howard) and Gerry Connolly (D-VA) have sponsored legislation to repeal the 3 percent federal telephone excise tax that was first imposed in 1898 to help fund the Spanish American War. It is time to...
