Bennie Thompson actually said...

I'm grateful to Congress for coming together to appropriate funds we States could use to run our elections in a difficult time.

Democracy is not a state. It's an act.

we must defend our democracy against adversaries who will use our differences of opinion to sow irreparable division among us.

I don't know any system that can't be improved upon. But, by and large, the Democrats on this committee have supported more funding.