U.S. Congress - Rep. Bennie Thompson, Mississippi (D)

To amend title 40, United States Code, to add certain counties in the State of Mississippi to the region represented by the Appalachian Region...

To extend the authority to make grants for specified energy property in lieu of tax credits.

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 150 South Union Street in Canton, Mississippi, as the "First Sergeant...

To amend title 14, United States Code, to modify the process for congressional nomination of individuals for appointment as cadets at the Coas...

To amend the provisions of title 5, United States Code, relating to the methodology for calculating the amount of any Postal surplus or supple...

To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the possession, transfer, or use of fraudulent travel documents, to amend title 49, United ...

To authorize the acquisition of core battlefield land at Champion Hill, Port Gibson, and Raymond for addition to Vicksburg National Military P...

To amend title 49, United States Code, to direct the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration) to esta...

To ensure that Transportation Worker Identification Credentials held by certain maritime workers do not expire before the deadline for full im...

To designate the United States courthouse to be constructed in Jackson, Mississippi, as the "R. Jess Brown United States Courthouse".

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 95 Dogwood Street in Cary, Mississippi, as the "Spencer Byrd Powers, ...

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the Medgar Evers House, located in Jackson, Mississippi, and...

To eliminate the preferences and special rules for Alaska Native Corporations under the program under section 8(a) of the Small Business Act.

To enhance homeland security, including domestic preparedness and collective response to terrorism, by improving the Federal Protective Servic...

To amend the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006 to direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to de...

To enhance homeland security, including domestic preparedness and collective response to terrorism, by amending the Homeland Security Act of 2...

Expressing support for designation of May 2012 as Mental Health Month.

To provide assistance and opportunity for the creation and support of sustainable agriculture activities in America's cities and to improve ac...

To authorize, enhance, and reform certain port security programs through increased efficiency and risk-based coordination within the Departmen...

To reauthorize Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs, and for other purposes.

To direct the President of the United States to appoint a high-level United States representative or special envoy for Iran for the purpose of...

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that any person who, for a commercial purpose, makes available for consumer use a machin...

Recognizing the significance of Black History Month.

Condemning the passage of legislation that would unduly burden an American citizen's ability to vote and opposing any State election law or pr...

To award a Congressional Gold Medal in honor of the pioneers and participants of the Civil Rights movement.

To grant the congressional gold medal to John H. Johnson in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the United States.

To amend the S.A.F.E. Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 to provide an exception from the definition of loan originator for certain loans made wit...

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend the reduced interest rate for Federal Direct Stafford Loans.

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should work with the Government of Haiti to address gender-based v...

To require State child welfare agencies to promptly report information on missing or abducted children to law enforcement authorities, and for...

To provide incentives for the creation of jobs, and for other purposes.

To direct the Secretary of Interior and the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to init...

To require a publicly available a list of all employers that relocate a call center overseas and to make such companies ineligible for Federal...

To reauthorize and amend the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families and related programs.

To require at least 10 percent of certain transportation funding to be made available for small business concerns owned and controlled by soci...

To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide equity for tuition and fees for individuals entitled to educational assistance under the Pos...

To amend title 10, United States Code, to include the Chief of the National Guard Bureau as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and to reest...

To amend title 10, United States Code, to improve the prevention of and response to sexual assault in the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish the Eva M. Clayton Fellows Program to provide for fellowships to conduct research and educ...

Recognizing the importance labor unions play in ensuring a strong middle class by advocating for more equitable wages, humane work conditions,...

To establish the Federal Interagency Working Group on Reducing Poverty which will create and carry out a national plan to cut poverty in Ameri...

To establish the National Infrastructure Bank to provide financial assistance for qualified infrastructure projects selected by the Bank, and ...

To amend title 46, United States Code, to require the Maritime Administrator, in making determinations regarding the non-availability of quali...

To amend the Budget Control Act of 2011 to eliminate the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction.

To direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to change the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure rule with respe...

To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to reform the process for the enrollment, activation, issuance, and renewal of a Transportation W...

To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require any State offering an early voting period in elections for Federal office to make the pe...

Celebrating the life and achievements of Reverend Fred Lee Shuttlesworth and honoring him for his tireless efforts in the fight against segreg...

To restore the natural resources, ecosystems, fisheries, marine and wildlife habitats, beaches, and coastal wetlands of Gulf Coast States, to ...

To phase out special wage certificates under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 under which individuals with disabilities may be employed at...

To provide tax relief for American workers and businesses, to put workers back on the job while rebuilding and modernizing America, and to pro...

To amend the Horse Protection Act to prohibit the shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, or d...

To improve the health of minority individuals, and for other purposes.

To provide compensation to relatives of Foreign Service members killed in the line of duty and the relatives of United States citizens who wer...

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish the Office of Disability Integration and Coordination within the Federal Emergency Man...

To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to provide treatment for diabetes in minority communities.

To amend the Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994 to improve the microenterprise technical assistance and capac...

To extend the participation term for small business concerns affected by Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita in certain programs, and for othe...

Expressing the sense of Congress that any legislative language approved by the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction should not reduce b...

Condemning the terror attacks on government buildings in Oslo, Norway, and a youth camp on Utoya Island, Norway, on July 22, 2011, and for oth...