Bennie Thompson actually said...

"Are we really ready to stand before the American people, those who trust and value that we recognize their needs, and declare for the sake of partisanship we are going to make our Nation more vulnerab..."

"we have to have the complement of staff necessary to address all the threats that we come in contact with."

"A lot of those reductions have not allowed us to really do effective committee work."

"Our biggest challenge is several, Madam Chair. Our enemy is not the enemy we started with."