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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 small and emerging businesses in Elk and Cameron counties.

“With the serious unemployment we have in these counties, this is a welcome windfall,” said Thompson. “The money should help businesses and thus provide some employment.”

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 Americans. July 31st is the deadline for bill passage set by the majority leadership.

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 last night.

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 House of Representatives last night.

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 year 2010, which passed the House of Representatives last night, included the project.

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 winter.

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 had not finished its cost analysis but that innovation and green collar jobs would help to balance costs.

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 considered. The next step is to propose a viable alternative—and today we do just that,” said Thompson.