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GOP-Led House Votes to Form Benghazi Panel

HeadlineMay 09, 2014

The U.S. House of Representatives has voted largely along party lines to form a select committee on the Obama administration’s handling of the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. The panel will include seven Republicans and five Democrats. This week, a Republican political committee launched a fundraising campaign called “Benghazi Watchdogs” prompting criticism from Democrats like Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland.

Rep. Elijah Cummings: “Republicans have selectively leaked documents and cherry-picked transcripts, excerpts, without any official committee consideration. How is that bipartisan? Republicans have also been doing something worse: They have been using the deaths of these four Americans for political campaign fundraising. I call on the speaker of the House to end that process right now.”

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