Mike Thompson

I mean, this decision tipped the Nutrition Title over $1 trillion over 10 years.

I have always appreciated Secretary Vilsack's support for milk-fat and anything that we can do to move from 1 percent to 3½ percent milk-fat, which would be whole milk, would be best for our kids.

With the hunger, and the starvation, and the death that's going to occur, we would need to give [U.S. farmers] the tools to increase their yield.

Electric vehicles are actually an attack on rural America.

The solution to climate is not electric vehicles.

For every bushel an American farmer can provide above and beyond what they normally do, that may be a life saved somewhere else in the world.

With the stroke of a pen, he could increase and open up more of our domestic American production today and do it in the name of an emergency because we are in a crisis.

But this is about direct consultation. Did the House, I can tell you, the House Republicans were not consulted, and as Ranking Member, we were not consulted.

I introduced the SUSTAINS Act (H.R. 2606, Sponsoring USDA Sustainability Targets in Agriculture to Incentivize Natural Solutions Act of 2021), which would allow USDA to accept and match donated private funds to stretch the Federal dollar.

Every American is going to wake up in the cold, dark, and hungry.

The Texas GOP should fall back. Thankful for the Texas Democrats who walked out. The Senate Democrats and the Senate Republicans need to get themselves together to stop this type of legislation that`s happening in the states and pass the…

Lyndon Baines Johnson, 56 years ago, was the President who had enough integrity about himself to give us a Federal answer to the struggles of voting.

I am hoping during my lifetime that I don't have to keep struggling with the past and I can move forward, and I can be able to protect the rights of my constituents to 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 the black community`s has had my back…

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 for a holiday, and don`t stop…

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

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.

The party, the GOP, Ari, that is all about Blue Lives Matter, back the blue, voted today to defund the police, the very thing that they attack Democrats and progressives for saying and doing.

Liz Cheney gave us a hint over the weekend when she was on one of the Sunday morning shows saying that Kevin McCarthy could be subpoenaed.

Over the last three years, ghost guns have flooded the streets and now they are the plurality of guns involving crimes in some jurisdictions.

We must take up legislation on the federal level and pass it now.

The House has already passed two sensible firearm measures: Congressman Mike Thompson's bipartisan background check bill, and Majority Whip Clyburn's bill to help close the Charleston loophole.

That is nonsense. What was just said on the floor is not accurate. The only thing this bill does is require a background check. If someone has legally purchased a firearm and passed a background check, nobody is going to take that gun away…

On this bill we have coauthors who are Democrats and Republicans, cops, hunters, gun owners, district attorneys, a former FBI agent, and veterans, who have served in combat and put their lives on the line to protect our Second Amendment…

The President of the United States instigated an attack against our democracy. For months, he ginned up his supporters with lies about our election and incited them to violence. On the 6th of January, he unleashed a mob on the Capitol. The…