Glenn Thompson

Republican · PA-15 · U.S. House

Bio

Glenn William "GT" Thompson Jr. is an American politician serving in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2008, representing Pennslvania's 5th congressional district until 2019 and Pennslvania's 15th congressional since then. He is a member of the Republican Party.

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Record of service

In office: 17.6 years
First took office: 2009 (9 terms)
Seniority: 72 of 437 by time served
Age: 67

District offices

Bellefonte, PA · 814-353-0215
Oil City, PA · 814-670-0432

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

$123k

2020

$123k

2021

$155k

2022

−$355k

2023

−$62k

2024

−$62k

2025

−$125k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $151k – $365k
Liabilities: $215k – $550k
Net worth: −$399k – $150k
Since 2019: −$248k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 3 assets reported

ANNUITY ⇒ EQUITRUST MARKET VALUE INDEX ANNUITY IRA$100k – $250k

LFG - IRA - ANNUITY ⇒ Lincoln National Life Insurance Company$50k – $100k

Horizon Federal Credit Union$1k – $15k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.79

Healthcare

R+0.71

Immigration & Border

R+0.86

Guns

R+0.97

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+0.99

Environment & Energy

R+0.83

Crime & Policing

R+0.78

Defense & Veterans

R+0.80

Economy & Labor

R+0.83

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.65

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.26

Education

R+0.76

Government & Democracy

R+0.89

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Glenn Thompson's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

91%Closest

64%

28%

19%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

15%

Communist Party USA

14%

On the political map

Glenn Thompson (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Thompsonsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Republican Governance Groupstrongly right · 44 members

Committees

House Committee on AgricultureChaircenter · 53 members
House Committee on Education and Workforcecenter · 36 members
Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Higher Education and Workforce Development

Most and least aligned members

Treating Thompson's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.