Glenn Thompson

The forest products industry employs almost 900,000 people across the country, not including jobs directly supporting the industry.

These communities rely on us to be good stewards of these Federal lands. The people who live in those communities depend on well-managed National Forests to foster jobs and economic opportunity.

Forestry plays an important role in the rural economy. The forest product industry employs almost 900,000 people across the country not including jobs directly supporting the industry, and in 2012, the forest products industry had an…

Good morning, everyone. This hearing of the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry to discuss the National Forest management and its impacts on rural economies and communities, will come to order.

I look forward to a productive discussion on how we can be certain the Forest Service is doing everything within reason to produce a stronger rural America.

I mean, it amazes me that we discriminate against U.S. forest products and yet that program, which is a Federal program, promotes foreign products.

I appreciate your steps in that direction, that landscape approach.

It amazes me that we discriminate against U.S. forest products and yet that program promotes foreign products.

I think your testimony, as well as, Mr. Chairman, the testimony of other witnesses we have had on this issue certainly has been enlightening, in terms of the importance of helium, strategically, to this country and, whether it is…

This has been obliterating, I think, to the Congress's oversight responsibility and, frankly, to jobs and affordable energy in this country.

I associate myself with my good friend from California and his comments.

If we do not use domestic energy inside this country, you are going to pay an energy tax in the next few years and it is going to be mandatory.

I am very disappointed in the Obama Administration, even with notice, refusing to come.

We should be using our own coal, our own steel, our own workers, and we should be operating inside of America.

We are talking about people's lives, income, and everything else, and that is the reason I am here, I care about people having the ability to wake up on Monday morning as an American and have a job.

Do you believe that this plan that opens no new areas for offshore drilling is going to keep our Nation competitive in the coming years?

The advancements since then have been amazing. Major places like the Marcellus Shale have changed the face of natural gas in our country.

Let me tell you a story about my home state, Pennsylvania. Ten years ago the Federal Government thought that the Marcellus Shale Formation contained 1.8--1.925 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

There is a culture of drugs that has taken over racing.

If these guys got together as a group and came up with rules, universal rules, nobody would be able to fight it.

In the book, I claim that a vast majority of trainers and vets are giving illegal drugs on race day.

I want you to know it is a privilege to stand alongside of you in this effort to clean up the great sport of racing.

We are trying to hire today and we can't find employees with the skills we need.

The Student Success Act...encourage our school districts to work with local business, local industry, to prepare kids.

I'm very concerned that the Forest Service's attempts to revise the viability section of the new rule will lead to endless legal wrangling, not more responsible forest management.