Bennie Thompson actually said...

"I would rather you give us no funding at all if it means you're going to tell us how to run our elections."

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

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

"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."