Mike Thompson actually said...

"Joe Biden must appoint the H.R.40 reparations commission by executive order. He can do that. And we can start the process."

"If you suppress the vote, and if you only want to do a holiday, and not bringing H.R.40, the reparations bill, to the floor, when it has almost 200 co-sponsors, the first time in history, if you vote ..."

"We expect to see them before the end of the summer vote for H.R.40, or else the Democrats run the risk of actually making Biden half-term, because the same base that -- what did Joe Biden say? He said..."

"If Manchin is a Democrat, if Sinema is a Democrat, they must defend everything that John Lewis fought for in his life, so that the Democrats can keep the House and the Senate."