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A Berlin-area farmer testified before the House Small Business Subcommittee on Rural Development, Agriculture, Trade, and Entrepreneurship about issues facing the dairy industry.
Glenn Stoltzfus was invited by U.S. Rep. John Joyce to testify during Tuesday's hearing. He is the first constituent witness Joyce invited to Washington.
It's a Friday afternoon at Penn State Mont Alto and a woman is in labor. The nursing lab has a human birthing center with a life-like simulator. The students with the help of staff are able to deliver the baby. Congressman Dr. John Joyce was amazed at what he saw.
"We actually saw a simulation of a birth with students, with nursing students who were there. These types of activities are what education needs to be about today," said Dr. Joyce.
Joyce, Thompson seek federal money for research into cure
Two area congressmen are pushing for federal funding to find a cure for chronic wasting disease.
U.S. Rep. John Joyce, R-13th District, and U.S. Rep. Glenn "GT" Thompson, R-15th District, introduced the Chronic Wasting Dis ease Research Act on Friday, which would authorize $15 million in federal funding to states, higher education institutions and other entities researching a cure for CWD.