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Anonymous wrote:Many of you seem to have forgotten, or may have never known, that one of the roles of Congress is to conduct oversight of the executive branch:

Through legislative debate and compromise, the U.S. Congress makes laws that influence our daily lives. It holds hearings to inform the legislative process, conducts investigations to oversee the executive branch, and serves as the voice of the people and the states in the federal government.

https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/about-congress

So, in other words, IT IS THEIR JOB!
Of course, their job could be more easily accomplished if the parties involved in this particular investigation cooperated a bit better and provided the documents subpoenaed by the investigating committee.

Hillary has repeatedly offered to appear before them personally and testify. It's Gowdy's panel that's refused that. And meanwhile, there already have been hundreds of hearings, thousands and thousands of documents reviewed, dozens of independent investigations and to date NONE of them support the core allegations made by Gowdy's panel.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many of you seem to have forgotten, or may have never known, that one of the roles of Congress is to conduct oversight of the executive branch:

Through legislative debate and compromise, the U.S. Congress makes laws that influence our daily lives. It holds hearings to inform the legislative process, conducts investigations to oversee the executive branch, and serves as the voice of the people and the states in the federal government.

https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/about-congress

So, in other words, IT IS THEIR JOB!
Of course, their job could be more easily accomplished if the parties involved in this particular investigation cooperated a bit better and provided the documents subpoenaed by the investigating committee.

Total nonsense and you know it. This prolonged and ridiculous over-investigation on Benghazi is 100% politically motivated and nothing more. It truly sickens me in light of the 9/11 hearings especially.

Only a total fool cannot see that the Republicans are prolonging Benghazi and trying to make something out of nothing ONLY to try to bring Hillary Clinton down. And I am no fan of Hillary Clinton but stunts like this by the Republican party are forcing me to never support Republicans.

I would honestly be ashamed to vote for a Republican now for Congress or the Presidency. That is the God's honest truth.

Are they still on Benghazi or her emails?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many of you seem to have forgotten, or may have never known, that one of the roles of Congress is to conduct oversight of the executive branch:

Through legislative debate and compromise, the U.S. Congress makes laws that influence our daily lives. It holds hearings to inform the legislative process, conducts investigations to oversee the executive branch, and serves as the voice of the people and the states in the federal government.

https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/about-congress

So, in other words, IT IS THEIR JOB!
Of course, their job could be more easily accomplished if the parties involved in this particular investigation cooperated a bit better and provided the documents subpoenaed by the investigating committee.

Total nonsense and you know it. This prolonged and ridiculous over-investigation on Benghazi is 100% politically motivated and nothing more. It truly sickens me in light of the 9/11 hearings especially.

Only a total fool cannot see that the Republicans are prolonging Benghazi and trying to make something out of nothing ONLY to try to bring Hillary Clinton down. And I am no fan of Hillary Clinton but stunts like this by the Republican party are forcing me to never support Republicans.

I would honestly be ashamed to vote for a Republican now for Congress or the Presidency. That is the God's honest truth.

Anonymous wrote:Many of you seem to have forgotten, or may have never known, that one of the roles of Congress is to conduct oversight of the executive branch:

Through legislative debate and compromise, the U.S. Congress makes laws that influence our daily lives. It holds hearings to inform the legislative process, conducts investigations to oversee the executive branch, and serves as the voice of the people and the states in the federal government.

https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/about-congress

So, in other words, IT IS THEIR JOB!
Of course, their job could be more easily accomplished if the parties involved in this particular investigation cooperated a bit better and provided the documents subpoenaed by the investigating committee.

Anonymous wrote:Many of you seem to have forgotten, or may have never known, that one of the roles of Congress is to conduct oversight of the executive branch:

Through legislative debate and compromise, the U.S. Congress makes laws that influence our daily lives. It holds hearings to inform the legislative process, conducts investigations to oversee the executive branch, and serves as the voice of the people and the states in the federal government.

https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/about-congress

So, in other words, IT IS THEIR JOB!
Of course, their job could be more easily accomplished if the parties involved in this particular investigation cooperated a bit better and provided the documents subpoenaed by the investigating committee.

Through legislative debate and compromise, the U.S. Congress makes laws that influence our daily lives. It holds hearings to inform the legislative process, conducts investigations to oversee the executive branch, and serves as the voice of the people and the states in the federal government.

Anonymous wrote:I think the IRS investigation cost taxpayers 14 million. But the IRS investigation was nowhere near as complex, convoluted, long and drawn out as the Benghazi investigation has been so it stands to reason the cost of this one will be much higher.

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Anonymous wrote:BOTTOM LINE: It is horrible that we, citizens of the United States, have allowed more Congressional hearing on Benghazi than were held on the terrorist attacks on our country on 9/11. Period. End of discussion.

More time and money was spent on 9/11 by far. No comparison.

ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE. NP here and your statement that the investigations and hearings into the failures that led to 9/11 as being more costly and time consuming are 100%, absolutely untrue. You are either lying or uninformed. The hearings and continued investigation into Benghazi has been the most time consuming and expensive in the history of the United States Congress.

More partisan jumping up and down. Makes me feel so good being Independent. And stop changing my words. I never said anything about failures that led to 9/11. But there was a lot of money on that and the overall investigation.

The Benghazi investigation is stupid. But who the hell is talking about Congressional costs? The conversation is about COST. And if Benghazi has hit 30 million, and I saw somewhere that Gowdy is up to 6mil, it still hasn't come close. 9/11 investigations, studies and commission cost a lot more than that. In fact no one can even come up with a total. You have money for the commission...budget was 15 million. NIST got 16 million. Then you have additional appropriations to NSA, FBI, CIA all to study the processes that led to the failure of intel. I have friends who were called in and worked a LOT of overtime directly on the research and studies related to 9/11 and funded with money designated rather than from their general budget. And there's more but I won't waste anymore of my time.

BTW...any idea what Ken Starr cost? Somewhere in the 40+ million range. A hell of a lot more than Benghazi so there goes your most costly Congressional investigation..

Everyone else here was indeed specifically talking Congressional cost. But thanks for bringing up Ken Starr - yet another wasteful GOP boondoggle...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BOTTOM LINE: It is horrible that we, citizens of the United States, have allowed more Congressional hearing on Benghazi than were held on the terrorist attacks on our country on 9/11. Period. End of discussion.

More time and money was spent on 9/11 by far. No comparison.

ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE. NP here and your statement that the investigations and hearings into the failures that led to 9/11 as being more costly and time consuming are 100%, absolutely untrue. You are either lying or uninformed. The hearings and continued investigation into Benghazi has been the most time consuming and expensive in the history of the United States Congress.

More partisan jumping up and down. Makes me feel so good being Independent. And stop changing my words. I never said anything about failures that led to 9/11. But there was a lot of money on that and the overall investigation.

The Benghazi investigation is stupid. But who the hell is talking about Congressional costs? The conversation is about COST. And if Benghazi has hit 30 million, and I saw somewhere that Gowdy is up to 6mil, it still hasn't come close. 9/11 investigations, studies and commission cost a lot more than that. In fact no one can even come up with a total. You have money for the commission...budget was 15 million. NIST got 16 million. Then you have additional appropriations to NSA, FBI, CIA all to study the processes that led to the failure of intel. I have friends who were called in and worked a LOT of overtime directly on the research and studies related to 9/11 and funded with money designated rather than from their general budget. And there's more but I won't waste anymore of my time.

BTW...any idea what Ken Starr cost? Somewhere in the 40+ million range. A hell of a lot more than Benghazi so there goes your most costly Congressional investigation..