Rep. Bennie Thompson

Bennie Thompson  has co-sponsored bill HR5838

To require non-Federal prisons and detention facilities holding Federal prisoners under a contract with the Federal Government to make available to the public the same information pertaining to facility operations and to prisoners held in such facilities that Federal prisons and detention facilities are required to make available.

  Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary....

Bennie Thompson  has co-sponsored bill HR5571

To provide an increased allocation of funding for assistance in persistent poverty counties, and for other purposes.

  Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, Science, Space, and Technology, Energy and Commerce, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequen...

Bennie Thompson  has co-sponsored bill HR5470

To clarify the grounds for ineligibility for travel to the United States regarding terrorism risk, to expand the criteria by which a country may be removed from the Visa Waiver Program, to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit a report on strengthening the Electronic System for Travel Authorization to better secure the international borders of the United States and prevent terrorists and instruments of terrorism from entering the United States, and for other purposes.

  Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concer...

Bennie Thompson  has co-sponsored bill HR5462

To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide for limitations on the fees charged to passengers of air carriers.

  Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security....

Bennie Thompson  has co-sponsored bill HR5459

To authorize the award of the Medal of Honor to Henry Johnson.

  Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services....

Bennie Thompson  has co-sponsored bill HR5282

To award posthumously a Congressional Gold Medal to Medgar Wiley Evers, in recognition of his contributions and ultimate sacrifice in the fight for racial equality in the United States.

  Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services....

Bennie Thompson  has co-sponsored bill HR4839

Original Living Wage Act of 2014

  Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce....

Bennie Thompson  has co-sponsored bill HR4812

To amend title 49, United States Code, to require the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration to establish a process for providing expedited and dignified passenger screening services for veterans traveling to visit war memorials built and dedicated to honor their service, and for other purposes.

  Current Status
Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security....

Bennie Thompson  has co-sponsored bill HR4783

To protect individuals by strengthening the Nation's mental health infrastructure, improving the understanding of violence, strengthening firearm prohibitions and protections for at-risk individuals, and improving and expanding the reporting of mental health records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

  Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee conc...

Bennie Thompson  has co-sponsored bill HR4618

To develop and implement national standards for the use of solitary confinement in the Nation's prisons, jails, and juvenile detention facilities.

  Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary....

Bennie Thompson  has co-sponsored bill HR4545

Mid-Mississippi Conservation, Recreation and Development Act of 2014

  Current Status
Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry....

Bennie Thompson  has co-sponsored bill HR4489

World War I Memorial Act of 2014

  Current Status
Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation....

Bennie Thompson  has co-sponsored bill HR4480

Protecting Educational Loans for Underserved Students Act

  Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce....