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Howard, PA —Upon news of deadly attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan, Congressman Glenn "GT" Thompson released the following statement:
Howard, PA — Upon passage of S.Con.Res.14, the Democrat's $3.5 trillion budget resolution, Congressman Glenn "GT" Thompson released the following statement:
Howard, PA —Today, Congressman Glenn "GT" Thompson announced a $1,000,000 grant from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to Penn HighlandsDubois Regional Medical Center for the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP)-Implementation grant.
ROCK SPRINGS, Pa. — U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson, the top Republican on the House Agriculture Committee, told Ag Progress Days attendees yesterday that work is progressing on ag legislation.
RESSON – U.S. Rep. Glenn "G.T." Thompson issued three challenges during the third annual Agriculture Summit at Mount Aloysius College on Monday.
Thompson, the House Committee on Agriculture's GOP leader, called upon schools to establish or expand agriculture programs and asked land grant universities to continue getting the word out about what farmers, ranchers and foresters do to help the environment and the climate.
He then emphasized the role "all of us" could play.
Washington, DC — Congressman Glenn "GT" Thompson (PA-15) and Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) introduced the Plugging Orphan Wells and Environmental Restoration (POWER) Act. The POWER Act (H.R. 4781) reauthorizes the federal orphan well remediation program under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 for five years at $50 million per year.
Washington, DC — Today, Congressman Glenn "GT" Thompson announced a $100,000 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission to the Warren County Development Association to complete two additional miles of the Grouse Trail as part of the Jakes Rocks Project, a 45-mile mountain bike trail system in the Allegheny National Forest.
HOWARD, PA — Today, Representatives Glenn "GT" Thompson (PA-15) and G. K.
Congressman Glenn Thompson is looking for a way to build bridges on Interstate 80 without placing tolls on them.
In March, PennDOT released a plan to toll nine high impact bridges on several interstate highways, including four on I-80. The plan, part of the state's "Pathways Program", includes the I-80 bridges over Canoe Creek in Clarion County and the North Fork bridges in Jefferson County.
U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson, through a bill of which he is the primary sponsor, hopes to close the "digital divide" between rural and urban America.
He said the legislation - Broadband for Rural America - would close that divide by encouraging broadband development.