Glenn Thompson

The farm bill is the primary vehicle which we use to provide risk management tools to our nation's farmers and ranchers.

It takes a very special person to be willing to borrow six or seven figures from the bank every year.

I do think that one of the most important things we can do for our farmers is approval of the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement.

Dairy is an industry that has been hurting, but as you look at the financials on that, we need to work on the trade.

As a public servant, Fred Keller has built a reputation for being hardworking, sincere, and dedicated. He has worked passionately for everything he has achieved. Things weren't always easy for Fred. In fact, he grew up in a house where he…

I appreciate your work and the work of Secretary Perdue to help those folks who are able-bodied...

Ultimate food security comes through a job. And there are more than 7 million jobs that are open and available throughout this great country today.

We have to work together to do the best we can for all of America's children.

I am hopeful we will be able to move further. The next step is to allow our schools the option to serve whole milk.

I don't appreciate when my colleagues extract certain statistics and try to demonize, you know, what is the right thing to do to help people.

I don't know if we are finding--identifying what are the alternative beverages that are being utilized.

I want to thank you for the Department's work on last year's rulemaking to reinstate the 1 percent flavored milk as an option in our schools.

One of the covered populations under the Older Americans Act obviously are those who are living with Alzheimer's disease.

There was an early onset bill that has been introduced in the House and the Senate that I think would be perfect to incorporate into any future Older Americans Act reauthorization.

As someone who worked a career for almost 30 years serving mostly older adults, therapists, previously a licensed nursing home administrator, the Older Americans Act is incredibly important.

I experienced that. My mother lived with Alzheimer's for 10 years. It stole her identity, her memories, and then her life eventually.

But this is the reason we do periodic reauthorizations, so we make sure that we are always getting it better and getting it right.

Disaster relief, which is long overdue, I thought that was a solid message here about people waiting for disaster relief.

It doesn't seem like all that long ago we were in the midst of the great recession, but the agricultural economy was booming then.

It is time to get this done.

Budgets are important, and quite frankly, certainly I support Job Corps and those types of things.

This bipartisan victory demonstrated Congress' renewed commitment to skills-based education in high-demand industries.

I just would respectfully request that you include the following in any infrastructure legislation: a stipulation that States devote a portion of infrastructure funds they receive to workforce development programs.

In order to improve and maintain the infrastructure of the United States, it is crucial that we support programs that promote new, innovative technologies that advance all the aspects of our country's transportation and infrastructure…

This program is critical in rural America and has provided links to hub airports in over 175 locations throughout the United States and its territories that would otherwise lack commercial air service.