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U.S. Representative, Mississippi 2nd district · Democrat

Bennie G. Thompson

170 statements indexed, set against 676 recorded votes.

676 recorded votes

  • Voted for27440.5%
  • Voted against37355.2%
  • Did not vote263.8%
95.7%
of the votes they could cast
170
statements indexed
6,323
words on the floor

Turned up for 95.7% of the votes they could have cast, below the middle of the House, which is 97.5%.

In plain English

Thompson voted 96 times out of every 100 they could. That is less than the middle of the House, which is 98.

They vote the same way as Pablo José Hernández more than anyone else. The two agreed 100 times out of 100.

Across the aisle they line up most with James C. Moylan. They agreed 66 times out of 100.

The Record prints their remarks under 2 headings more than once. The list below names them.

First took office
April 13, 1993
Terms served
17 terms in the House
Current term
January 3, 2025 to January 3, 2027
Born
January 28, 1948

Sources: Clerk of the House and congress-legislators.

What They Spoke On

Only two headings repeat in what Thompson has on the record here: the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at three, and a graduation from a Latin American medical school at two. The rest are single remarks, most of them honoring people in Mississippi.

The business the Congressional Record printed their remarks under, counted, with the chamber's own procedure left out. It is what was before the chamber, which is not always what the member was addressing.

What Was Said, and What Was Done

170 statements quoted from the Congressional Record and set against Bennie G. Thompson’s votes. The most recent are below, one from each item of business, each linking to what it is set against.

All 170 statements, with a search →

Counted from the record

What Their Votes Add Up To

Measures that reached a final vote, grouped by subject. A yes here means pass the thing, which is why the count leaves out motions to recommit, to table and to proceed: on those a no can be support. Which subject a measure belongs to is this site's reading, and every measure in every subject is listed. A subject below links to its own measures.

Voting With Their Party

On the 471 votes this Congress where a majority of Democrats took one side and a majority of Republicans took the other, Bennie G. Thompson voted on 458 and was with the Democrat majority on 453 of them.

458 party line votes cast

  • With their party45398.9%
  • Against their party51.1%

Votes Against Their Own Party

Who They Vote With

In Their Own Party

Of the votes both took part in.

Voting Across the Aisle

The record itself

Where the Words Are

The Congressional Record marks Bennie G. Thompson as speaking in 172 items of business across 109 sitting days of this Congress.

Many of those appearances are procedural: yielding time, a request to revise and extend, a call for the yeas and nays. The count comes from the Record's own speaker tagging, which is not complete, so a member may have spoken more often than it shows.

The eight most recent, each linking to that day's Record at govinfo.

Every Recorded Vote

All 676 recorded votes of the 119th Congress in which the Clerk of the House lists Bennie G. Thompson. The most recent 4 below, each linking to the official record of that vote.

All 676 recorded votes, newest first →

Elsewhere in the Record

The other Mississippi representatives in this Congress: Trent Kelly and Michael Guest.

How these records are gathered, and what they leave out, is set out on the Promise Tracker.