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Bennie G. Thompson
Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.
Bennie G. Thompson
Many of the things that Democrats and Blacks have a deep and abiding commitment to the Republicans could care less. affirmative action, equal opportunity, health benefits for all.
Bennie G. Thompson
Many of the people who grow those same foodstuffs here in America could get it there far cheaper, where they're bringing in rice and soybeans and other products now. Obviously, we are playing a form of diplomacy that is denying a quality of life for people.
Bennie G. Thompson
Low and moderate income families in Mississippi pay substantial state and local taxes. The Bush proposal to double the child tax credit wouldn't do anything to relieve these families.
Bennie G. Thompson
Legislatively, as you know, we've been dealing with relief for the Black farmers. That has been a continuous effort as it related to the discrimination they suffered at the hands of the Department of Agriculture.
Bennie G. Thompson
Just ask anyone who ever had or recently tried to buy a Medicare + Choice policy. They don't exist in rural America, in general, because the private companies pulled out when they realized they couldn't make any money.
Bennie G. Thompson
It's a shame that companies take advantage of families by charging outrageous rates for natural gas. In many parts of my District low and fixed income families are simply unable to cough up $1,100 for one month of gas. To expect them low and fixed income families to do so is incredible.
Bennie G. Thompson
It seems that adolescents have been affected the worst. In many cases, there has been a direct correlation between parents that went to work and increased instances of substance abuse and school behavioral problems among their children, resulting in school expulsion and even jail time.
Bennie G. Thompson
It may be sometime until Congress takes up meaningful welfare and other child care issues. In the meantime I have made several individual efforts to try and help low-income families.
Bennie G. Thompson
It is tough individually to pursue any single issue here without the help of the Caucus Democrats and some of the Republicans - the notion being that as the minority party in Congress it is tough because the Republicans are in charge.