Washington, D.C.—U.S. Representative Glenn `GT’ Thompson, R-Howard, today announced the Federal Aviation Administration has awarded a $1,383,200 grant to the University Park Airport for airport drainage improvements and to install runway lighting.“The Department of Transportation grant will help the University...
June 2009 Archives
Washington, D.C.—U.S. Representative Glenn `GT’ Thompson, R-Howard, today announced $99,000 has been awarded to the St. Mary’s Area Economic Development Corporation from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.The Rural Business Enterprise Grant will be used for a revolving loan fund for...
Washington, D.C.—Members of the Education and Labor Committee got their first and only hearing today on the Democratic Health Care Reform package. It lasted all of three hours on a health care system that may change the lives of all...
Washington, D.C.—U.S. Representative Glenn `GT’ Thompson, R-Howard, today announced that he requested $250,000 for the Lycoming County Emergency Operations Center, that was included in the Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations measure for fiscal year 2010, which passed the House of Representatives...
Washington, D.C.—U.S. Representative Glenn `GT’ Thompson, R-Howard, today announced that he requested $250,000 for the upgrade of the Centre County Emergency Communication System, that was included in the Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations measure for fiscal year 2010, which passed the...
Washington, D.C.—U.S. Representative Glenn `GT’ Thompson, R-Howard, today announced he requested the $500,000 for the Clarion Northwest Central Regional Interoperability Strategic Telecommunications Plan that has been included in a House funding bill. The Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations measure for fiscal...
Washington, D.C.—U.S. Representative Glenn `GT’ Thompson, R-Howard, today received a copy of a letter from Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack, declaring that the counties of Warren and McKean fall under a disaster designation due to agricultural losses from excessive snow last...
Washington, D.C.—In a hearing today before the House Agriculture Committee, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack answered the question of what the cost of the Cap and Trade proposal would be in rural America by saying that the Department of Agriculture...
Washington, D.C.—U.S. Representative Glenn `GT’ Thompson, R-Howard, today joined other members of the GOP American Energy Solutions Working Group to introduce their alternative to the proposed Cap and Trade legislation.“We have been criticizing strongly the `Cap and Tax’ program being...
Washington, DC—U.S. Representative Glenn `GT’ Thompson, R-Howard, today pushed the Forest Service to acknowledge that the economic downturn around the Allegheny National Forest was due to actions of the Forest Service in regard to oil and gas development and timbering.Jay Jensen,...
