[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16322]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE EVENTS SURROUNDING THE 2012 TERRORIST ATTACK IN 
                                BENGHAZI

  (Mr. SHERMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow the Select Committee on Benghazi 
will hold hearings certain to drive congressional approval ratings to 
new lows. The majority leader, the leader of the Republicans, and the 
New York Republican, Mr. Hanna, and former Republican Committee 
staffers have all confessed that the purpose of this committee is no 
governmental purpose, but the political purpose of driving down 
Secretary Clinton's approval ratings and political prospects. And for 
that, we have spent 4.5 million taxpayer dollars.
  Even before those admissions, it was apparent that that was the 
purpose of this committee. They have held four hearings in 17 months 
and developed nothing of significance. They have abandoned plans to 
have hearings with top intelligence and defense officials. They have 
done nothing up until now. Yet, tomorrow, they are set to spend 8 hours 
grilling one woman.
  Nothing about the tragedy in Benghazi has been revealed by this 
committee, and nothing will be revealed tomorrow. All this committee 
has done is focus on what has been referred to as Secretary Clinton's 
damn emails.
  Look at the rules that bind Congress on emails. We are free to use 
any server. We are free to keep and delete or to take the emails with 
us.
  We have got an 8 percent approval rating. It is going down tomorrow 
as a result of what the Benghazi Committee plans to do.

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