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1. H.RES.176 : Recognizing the historical significance of the Supreme Court's unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education, repudiating segregation, and reaffirming the fundamental belief that we are all "one Nation under God, indivisible".
Sponsor: Rep Thompson, Bennie G. [MS-2]
(introduced 5/18/1999) Cosponsors (37)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 5/18/1999
Passed/agreed to in House. Status: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to without objection.
2. H.RES.466 : Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with regard to the continued display of Confederate flags.
Sponsor: Rep Thompson, Bennie G. [MS-2]
(introduced 4/6/2000) Cosponsors (27)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 4/11/2000
Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
3. H.R.765 : To amend the Poultry Products Inspection Act to cover birds of the order Ratitae that are raised for use as human food.
Sponsor: Rep Thompson, Bennie G. [MS-2]
(introduced 2/12/1999) Cosponsors (73)
Committees: House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 2/18/1999
House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
4. H.R.943 : To reimburse an individual who is the subject of an independent counsel's investigation and is indicted but found not guilty for attorneys' fees.
Sponsor: Rep Thompson, Bennie G. [MS-2]
(introduced 3/2/1999) Cosponsors (23)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 9/24/1999
Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property.
5. H.R.1279 : To designate the Federal building and United States post office located at 223 Sharkey Street in Clarksdale, Mississippi, as the "Aaron E. Henry Federal Building and United States Post Office".
Sponsor: Rep Thompson, Bennie G. [MS-2]
(introduced 3/24/1999) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Transportation and Infrastructure; Senate Environment and Public Works
House Reports:
106-538
Latest Major Action: 3/29/2000
Referred to Senate committee. Status: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
6. H.R.1588 : To amend title 11 of the United States Code to permit all debtors to exempt certain payments receivable on account of discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, or gender, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Thompson, Bennie G. [MS-2]
(introduced 4/27/1999) Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 5/7/1999
Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
7. H.R.1792 : To provide crime-fighting scholarships to certain law enforcement officers.
Sponsor: Rep Thompson, Bennie G. [MS-2]
(introduced 5/13/1999) Cosponsors (5)
Committees: House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 5/21/1999
Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
8. H.R.3250 : To amend the Public Health Service Act to improve the health of minority individuals.
Sponsor: Rep Thompson, Bennie G. [MS-2]
(introduced 11/8/1999) Cosponsors (86)
Committees: House Commerce
House Reports:
106-986
Latest Major Action: 10/18/2000
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 581.
9. H.R.3497 : To authorize a study on the feasibility of preserving certain Civil War battlefields along the Vicksburg Campaign Trail and of establishing a Civil Rights Trail in the State of Mississippi.
Sponsor: Rep Thompson, Bennie G. [MS-2]
(introduced 11/18/1999) Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 11/18/1999
House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
10. H.R.4123 : To modify the project for flood control, Yazoo Backwater Area, Yazoo Basin, Mississippi, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to make payments to local interests as compensation for certain reductions in local tax revenues.
Sponsor: Rep Thompson, Bennie G. [MS-2]
(introduced 3/29/2000) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Transportation and Infrastructure
Latest Major Action: 3/30/2000
Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
11. H.R.4687 : To provide for the identification and discipline of members of county and area committees established under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, and employees of such committees, who discriminate against farmers, ranchers, and other participants in programs of the Department of Agriculture on the basis of race, sex, national origin, marital status, religion, age, or handicap.
Sponsor: Rep Thompson, Bennie G. [MS-2]
(introduced 6/15/2000) Cosponsors (45)
Committees: House Government Reform; House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 6/28/2000
Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
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