Bennie Thompson actually said...

"Let me also express my deepest sympathy to the family of David Hillman, a retired CBP officer who was killed by a suicide bomb in Kandahar."

"The top priority for the committee is to counter the serious and evolving terrorist threats facing our country."

"If we take the right action, many of our concerns about a terrorist threat from this region could be significantly reduced."

"I hope that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle will end this dangerous budgetary strategy and pursue a course that provides our first responders with the financial certainty they need to ful..."