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."