Speaker John Boehner ✔ @SpeakerBoehner
Posted on 05/09/2014 1:31:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
House Speaker John Boehner has released the names of the Republicans who will sit on the Benghazi select committee: Rep. Susan Brooks (IN), Rep. Trey Gowdy (SC), Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (OH), Rep. Mike Pompeo (KS), Rep. Martha Roby (AL), Rep. Peter Roskam (IL) and Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (GA)
Speaker John Boehner ✔ @SpeakerBoehner
Meet your majority members for the #SelectCommittee
on #Benghazi:
11:25 AM - 9 May 2014
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“This investigation is about getting answers for the families of the victims and for the American people. These members have each demonstrated a commitment to this goal, and I have confidence that they will lead a serious, fact-based inquiry. As I have expressed to each of them, I expect this committee to carry out an investigation worthy of the American lives lost in Benghazi," Boehner said in a statement. "I also urge my Democratic colleagues to treat this tragedy with the proper respect and appoint members so that we can finally, on a bipartisan basis, get answers, provide accountability, and help deliver justice. It is critical that this committee do its work in a focused, timely manner, so that the House can continue to make the economy and job creation its priorities.”
Democrats still haven't decided whether they are going to participate in the investigation. During a press conference Friday morning, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told reporters, "The American people have either forgotten about Benghazi or they never knew about it in the first place."
As long as it has taken them to do this I have no hope anything will come of it.
Anyone here know anything about these congressmen & women?
Trey Gowdy is one of the good guys, one of us.
for now.
I was hoping Louie Gomert would’ve been selected.
Which is why he wasn’t.
OK so how many of them understand what happened in Benghazi and are willing to hold Obama, Hillary et al responsible for the deaths of those four Americans ???
First sign of danger.
Pompeo is a West Point graduate and will have to answer to Kansas voters between now and election, so he should be a good choice.
Timothy Leary was a West Point graduate.
Are you referring to Linda Graham's nephew?
Just goes to show you can’t choose your relatives.
Just goes to show you can’t choose your relatives.
BREAKING NEWS! Republicans have announced the names of people who will study the problem for a year!
Roskam's been railing about Benghazi for awhile here on the radio, so I'm guessing he'll be good.
Anyone here know anything about these congressmen & women?
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I have seen Jim Jordan during several hearings lately. He is a hard questioner, much like Trey Gowdy. The others, I don’t know.
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