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WASHINGTON — Rep. Glenn Thompson returned from a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday even more convinced that Congress needed to act to stop the flow of migrants to the country.
“The best time to do this would have been yesterday,” Mr. Thompson, R-Centre, said in a telephone interview after visiting Eagle Pass, Texas, with 63 other House Republicans. “The second best day would be today.”
Over the last few days, U.S. House Rep. Glenn Thompson, R-15, Bellefonte, has had a first hand look at what is occurring on the Texas-Mexico border.
Thompson was part of a delegation of more than 60 Republican House members in Texas from Tuesday to Thursday. He visited the border town of Eagle Pass, the epicenter of the crisis, on Wednesday.
It’s a crisis of epic proportions, he said on Thursday night, from O’Hare Airport in Chicago while on his way home.
HARRISBURG — As snow flurries began to fall from the sky, lawmakers and leaders in the agriculture community stood side-by-side on Saturday morning to celebrate the importance of agriculture in the Keystone State at the opening ceremony for the 108th Pennsylvania Farm.
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Rep. Glenn Thompson joked that he’s been wandering about Washington recently, looking under rocks for pots of money.
It’s his way of saying that he’s looking for as much funding as possible for the federal Farm Bill.
Making federal policy decisions based on the ever-changing science of nutrition means mistakes are inevitable and corrections will be needed. A case-in-point is a federal nutrition law that restricts schoolkids’ access to more flavorful and filling milk based on now-outdated science. That restriction should be lifted. Congress ought to pass U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson’s Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, which would restore healthy full-fat milk to public school cafeterias.
WASHINGTON—A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing to bring a banned substance back to schools: whole milk.
As a Republican Congressman and a Democratic Mayor, you can imagine that sometimes we hold differing views about how best to support our communities through policy and budget.
Last week, Congressman Glenn Thompson toured Otto-Eldred School District's agriculture program. On Wednesday, he joined fellow legislators to introduce a bill that would help those students pursue a career in farming in the future.
The bipartisan Young Farmer Success Act would help America's young farmers manage their student loan debt by making them eligible for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.
WASHINGTON — On a recent trip to the nation's capital, I was able to chat with U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson, widely known as G.T., who chairs the House Agriculture Committee.