Bennie Thompson
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Bennie Gordon Thompson is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Mississippi's 2nd congressional district since 1993. A member of the Democratic Party, Thompson has been a prominent voice in Congress on issues related to homeland security, having served as the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. Throughout his tenure, he has focused on various aspects of national security and has been an advocate for addressing threats posed by terrorism and drug cartels.
If you want to know what contempt of Congress really looks like, read a transcript of Mr. Clark`s deposition and his attorneys` correspondence with the select committee, because what you find there is contempt for Congress and for the…
We`re going to let him assert the Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself, if that`s what he wants to do, question by question.
This committee`s investigation into the violent assault on our Capitol on January 6 is not a game. When this committee convenes hearings, witnesses will be called to testify under oath. Any communications Mr. Trump has with this committee…
If that oath loses meaning, if it is reduced to empty words, then democracy and the rule of law in this country--we are in serious trouble.
I urge my colleagues to support adoption of the report recommending that the House of Representatives cite Jeffrey Clark for contempt of Congress.
This Committee and this House must insist on accountability in the face of that sort of defiance.
Abortion has driven everything they have done when it comes to the whole third branch of government, the judicial branch.
Project number one is skew the economic system in this country as much as possible so that it provides as much as possible to the people at the top.
Do everything you can, everywhere you can, to make sure that people of color, other minorities, poor people, immigrants, liberals, anybody who might oppose what you`re doing, do everything you can to make sure that those people cannot…
If the first thing you do with power is move to make more guns available to people who are formally certified to be crazy, you might have a gun problem.
For 48 years, the conservative movement has focused on almost nothing as intently as they have focused on trying to eliminate that right.
He has a very short time to reconsider and cooperate fully. We need the information that he is withholding and we`re willing to take strong measures to hold him accountable to meet his obligation.
We believe the individuals and organizations we subpoenaed today have relevant information about how violence erupted at the Capitol and the preparation leading up to this violent attack.
we need to know who organized, planned, paid for and received funds related to those events as well as what communications organizers had with officials in the White House and Congress.
I thank Chairman Yarmuth for his steadfast commitment to shepherding this landmark legislation to the floor. I am honored to join with my colleagues, just days after President Biden signed a sorely needed and long-awaited infrastructure…
We look to the Russian government to address ransomware criminal activity coming from actors within Russia.
This year has already seen crippling and costly ransomware attacks that have disrupted Federal, State, and local government.
The Biden administration has shown encouraging signs of support for workers' rights.





