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Bennie G. Thompson
It is essential that we provide benefits to low-income working families to help improve their standard of living.
Bennie G. Thompson
It happens because we have a country that differentiates between the haves and the have nots. It is a class struggle and it's a racial structure because the majority of those families without running water are Black. But an even greater majority of them are poor.
Bennie G. Thompson
In the future, whatever public assistance, or welfare to work legislation Congress debates the needs of our children must be the main priority.
Bennie G. Thompson
In the coming weeks and months, I will be working to enact legislation that protects hard-working families. Like many hard working Mississippians, I know that many families place a high value on their savings and investments, no matter how small the investment.
Bennie G. Thompson
In the 1990's, many companies felt pressure to put on the best face possible so that people would buy their stock. They boosted revenue projections and hid expenses.
Bennie G. Thompson
In rural states like Arkansas, North Dakota and Mississippi, our hospitals have long been subjected to unfair payments from Medicare, based on the false assumption that it is significantly cheaper to provide health care in a rural setting.
Bennie G. Thompson
In adding a prescription drug benefit to the program and in correcting the rural reimbursement rate disparity, policymakers must ensure they do nothing to endanger the basic, dependable benefit Medicare provides.
Bennie G. Thompson
If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.
Bennie G. Thompson
I do not fly the Mississippi flag in my office. It is absolutely void. Before I came to Washington I was one of those folks that sued the State of Mississippi to try to do away with the flag because of what it symbolized.
Bennie G. Thompson
I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.