[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15516-15517]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      SELECT COMMITTEE ON BENGHAZI

  (Mr. ELLISON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. ELLISON. Mr. Speaker, we always knew that Kevin McCarthy and the 
Republican Caucus had gotten together to set up this Benghazi task 
force in order to do a political stunt, but I never thought they would 
admit it. I was shocked.
  I mean, could you imagine me or any Member of this House setting up a 
$4.5 million task force for the sole purpose of electioneering? 
Everyone in that task force, every staffer, was essentially a campaign 
staffer and, yet, paid for with government money to impact a 
Presidential election.
  This is a scandal, people. I cannot believe what I heard. We all knew 
it was going on, but we couldn't prove it. Now it is documentary proof 
in front of literally millions of Americans, bragged about and set out 
as: Yeah. We did it,

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and it is an achievement we are proud of.
  Now, if one Member were to use their Congressional office to 
campaign, that would be an ethics complaint. What if a whole caucus 
does it?

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