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




                  END THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON BENGHAZI

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, in a FOX News interview yesterday, the 
Republican speaker-in-waiting admitted to something that we have all 
known all along, and that is that the real motive of the Select 
Committee on Benghazi was simply to politically attack and drive down 
the poll numbers for Hillary Clinton, spending millions of taxpayer 
dollars for a political mission.
  And, unbelievably, the speaker-in-waiting mentioned this in response 
to a question as to what were the accomplishments of the Republican 
Congress, the accomplishments of this Congress. The number one 
accomplishment that he came up with was to use taxpayer dollars to 
create a committee for the specific purpose of affecting the 
Presidential campaign and driving down the polling numbers of a 
Democratic candidate.
  Is that your job when it took until yesterday to get a budget for 
just 2 months to the floor of this House, but you spend millions of 
dollars, thousands of hours, specifically for the purposes of driving 
down the polling numbers of a Presidential candidate in the Democratic 
Party?
  Give me a break. This has gone too far. Something needs to change in 
this House of Representatives.

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