Bennie Thompson
Bennie Thompson
Bennie Gordon Thompsonis the U.S. Representative for Mississippi's 2nd congressional district, serving since 1993, and the ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security since 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 January 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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to look into this contract and see if there is a legitimacy to my concerns that we may be paying twice the price for this product.
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People just looked at him, ... He was the first speaker, and it sort of went downhill after that. People felt we are not going to get the truth here.
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That was just a boneheaded statement from someone who should be in charge of this situation, ... The president will have to change the leadership so that a response this bad will never, never happen again for the American people.
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Like that day four Septembers ago, we once again find ourselves asking, 'How could this have happened? ... The answer is painful, but it must be acknowledged: we simply were unprepared.
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The president has talked about small businesses being the engine of our economy, but when the time for sound bites is over his administration still uses the same backroom deals to take care of their friends,
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Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.
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I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.
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History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.
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Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent.
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Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.
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At home I have hunting magazines on my nightstand. I'm an avid hunter. I hunt every chance I get.
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I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.
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We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping.
what you see is not really what is.