Glenn Thompson

Oversight is so important.

I would encourage you to use the same principles that this body, this committee did with the Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act.

I think there's a better way to do it.

I've always believed that there's many different pathways to success in life, not just a 4-year institution.

They want their children to thrive. They want their children to get the type of education to where they can get great jobs.

Clearly, we're all accountable for our children and for all aspects, including education.

It's an exciting time, with what we've done with repealing No Child Left Behind, now with ESSA.

I see employment and training as an exit ramp, an exit ramp out of poverty.

Madam Chair, thank you so much for hosting this hearing.

If we do a cookie cutter solution, at the end of the day, with our reauthorization of SNAP, we have failed.

I prefer to see SNAP, actually, the purpose of it is not so much a program, but a pathway.

We are having an honest dialogue, just like some other folks had an honest dialogue over the weekend.

This rule changes the requirements for a person to be considered actively engaged in farming for the purpose of payment eligibility for certain Farm Service Agency (FSA) and Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) programs.

I thank the gentlewoman, who is a great ranking member on the subcommittee, for all of her work and for her comments and words this evening. Mr. Speaker, having served on the subcommittee with the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Schrader), he…

You should be ashamed of the Department of the Interior for becoming complicit in what appears to be the EPA's negligence.

If we cannot get those basic critical facts straight, how can we make the argument that the Federal Government is the appropriate party to clean up these mines?

What safeguards do you have in place to prevent mission creep?

Whether we are talking families or businesses or schools, hospitals, you know, personnel, people obviously are first, but, after that, the second most important thing that people think about is energy and energy costs and having access to…

I think parents are very, very unaware of the wage data associated with many of our career and technical education fields.

The President's Fiscal Year 2016 budget request zeroed out the Community Facilities Guaranteed Loan Program.

I have significant concerns. I work very closely with the rural electric cooperatives.

If rural America fails, this country fails because those are just basic fundamental needs.

I want to talk about a series of bills that Representative Cartwright, DeGette, Schakowsky, and I have introduced, the frack pack, to increase safeguards around fracking.

I think that would be a dangerous precedent, if that decision goes the wrong way.

But that should certainly be left up to you, not entities in other areas of the government.