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Bennie G. Thompson

DemocratBennie G. Thompson

U.S. Representative · Mississippi

Mississippi's 2nd district

DemocratFederal

U.S. Representative from Mississippi

0 tracked promises

Mississippi · Mississippi's 2nd district

Mississippi's 2nd district

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How they won their seat

Bennie G. Thompson won the 2024 U.S. House election in Mississippi (District 2) with 62% of the vote (177,885 votes).

62%
Win share
177,885
Votes for winner
286,841
Total cast
  • Bennie G. Thompson · Democrat62%
  • Ron Eller · Republican38%

Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.

Inferred legislative agendas

Bennie G. Thompson's record includes sponsored bills related to homeland security, emergency management, and law enforcement. He has sponsored numerous bills aimed at enhancing cybersecurity within the Department of Homeland Security and addressing the needs of law enforcement personnel. Focus areas (from the record): Homeland Security · Cybersecurity · Emergency Management · Law Enforcement Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Thompson's legislative activity. Therefore, it is not possible to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal any stated goals or intentions behind the sponsored bills; There is no information on the effectiveness of the sponsored legislation or its impact; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess the consistency of actions with any potential commitments. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Bennie G. Thompson has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.

Showing 2014. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.

Activity in office

What Bennie G. Thompson has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.

Roll-call data last updated September 7, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Bills sponsored over time

2bills sponsored
2 awaiting status
01234Bills2014: 2 awaiting status22014

Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.

Bill success rate

0%
0 of 0 sponsored bills became law

Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$756K
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$250K$500K$750K$1M2026: raised $756K2026: spent $725K20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $51K (7%)7%Large individual (itemized): $210K (30%)30%PAC / committee: $443K (63%)63%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$51K7%
  • Large individual (itemized)$210K30%
  • PAC / committee$443K63%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Source: Congress.gov.

Verified record

239 sponsored bills · finance on file

Facts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.

Campaign financeas of Mar 31, 2026

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $608,726, spent $819,626, cash on hand $0.

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Sponsored legislation

Showing the 12 most recent of 239 sponsored measures.

Voting record

Total votes
655
Yea
263
Nay
366
Present
0
Not voting
26

Full voting record

655 votes
  • S32Yea
  • S307Yea
120 of 655
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Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Positions on record

1 position on record

The record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.

  • Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote

    On record voting NO on Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment to prohibit warrantless searches of United States persons' communications in the FISA Section 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats to life or bodily harm, consent searches, and known cybersecurity threat signatures. The amendment failed on a 212 to 212 tie.

    SourcesHouse Roll Call Vote 114, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On Agreeing to the Amendment, Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Failed by recorded vote, 212 ayes to 212 noes, April 12, 2024.
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Disclosure
No undisclosed priorities on record

Disclosure

A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.

No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.

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