Bennie Thompson actually said...

"Do you believe that you are an American entitled to the same benefits, a citizen entitled to the same benefits and rights as other citizens?"

"It is disrespectful to our witnesses from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands who have traveled here today to inform Congress about the recovery challenges they still face at home."

"This probably was not a wise choice to implement this in a situation so far away from the mainland."

"So much of what I have heard and seen in my visit to Puerto Rico, especially, in many instances FEMA has been missing in action."