Glenn Thompson

Proper land stewardship, active management, and conservation are critical to the health of our economy, our environment, farms, forests, and watersheds.

I certainly want to support her request. It is very evident being there how that it really is the tip of the spear for us in terms of our defense.

I fully recommend that we pursue those avenues.

Supporting our troops when they return home from the front lines is just as important as providing them the tools that they need to defend our Nation.

For the first time in years, we have an opportunity to ensure that our military does not face a continued drawdown in force strength.

To protect our reservation, we ask the committee to, one, maintain funding for Great Lakes Restoration Initiatives at $300 million; increase the fiscal year 2018 funding for BIA's Trust-Natural Resource Management Programs above $201…

Our natural resource programs protect our culture, our health, our economy, and is part of Wisconsin's $19.3 billion fishing, recreation, and tourism industry.

It is a public safety issue, plain and simple, and the BIA funding is inadequate.

Last week I had the privilege of traveling with Mrs. Radewagen and Chairman Bishop to American Samoa, and saw firsthand absolutely every one of the points that she addressed today in her testimony.

I request much-needed funding for Forest Service research activities, specifically for forests and rangeland research.

As cochair of the Career and Technical Education Caucus, I mean, I share your passion. I know how important that is.

Through a bipartisan effort led by Representatives Glenn Thompson and Katherine Clark, this committee unanimously approved legislation to strengthen CTE.

We will make meaningful work requirement changes, but none of us intend to cut SNAP.

If we're going to be among those continuing keepers of the republic, if we're going to be able to keep it, then we have to be those morally religious people.

A republic, Madam, if you can keep it.

We did include in legislation... allowing our schools to seek a waiver to be able to serve and sell milk with fat in it.

I, personally, have a Congressional district so rural and poverty so high, they feed them dinner before they send them home.

I called it an ill-conceived fiasco.

We're depending on you to do it. And, G.T., we talked about this many times, and I know you're involved in it, this year let's get it done.

With all due respect to the two gentlemen, I don't think they really related to you how bad it is on our dairy farms.

It's great to see all of you here. We look forward to your comments and very much appreciate the time that you've taken on this Columbus Day to be with us as we consider the issues that are facing our country and ag for the 2018 Farm Bill.

Agriculture is our number one industry. We do have some corn and soybeans, but obviously from just my ride in, not near what you have.

Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Congressman G.T. Thompson.

In Pennsylvania, our number one industry is agriculture. One out of every seven Pennsylvanians owe their job directly or indirectly to agriculture.

I represent Fort Benning. The trainers are telling us that the bone density in their trainees now is not what it used to be and they have a lot of stress fractures because the youngsters did not get the kind of nutrition they needed in the…