Bennie Thompson
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"Bennie Gordon Thompson" is the United States House of Representatives/U.S. Representative for , serving since 1993, and the ranking member of the United States House Committee on Homeland Security/Committee on Homeland Security since 2011. He is a member of the United States Democratic Party/Democratic Party.

The district includes most of Jackson, Mississippi/Jackson and is the only majority-black district in the state. The district is approximately long, wide and borders the Mississippi River. The Mississippi Delta comprises the vast majority of the 2nd District. He is both the first Democrat and the first African American to chair the Homeland Security Committee in the House.

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To look into this contract and see if there is a legitimacy to my concerns that we may be paying twice the price for this product.

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We need a real citizen preparedness plan ? one that takes care of children, the elderly and the disabled, ... Mothers and grandmothers should not drown in nursing homes because help never arrived.

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This year, Republicans in Congress cut first-responder homeland security programs by $604 million, and an additional cut of $1.1 billion was requested by the president for fiscal year 2006.

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There is just more of the good old boy system taking care of its political allies, ... FEMA and the others have put out these contracts in such a haphazard manner, I don't know how they can come up with anything that is accountable to the taxpayers.

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What you see is not really what is.

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There are a lot of questions that ultimately now put more light on the Secretary of Homeland Security.

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People just looked at him, ... He was the first speaker, and it sort of went downhill after that. People felt we are not going to get the truth here.

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Like that day four Septembers ago, we once again find ourselves asking, 'How could this have happened? ... The answer is painful, but it must be acknowledged: we simply were unprepared.

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