Rep. Louise Slaughter, top Democrat on the House Rules Committee, put forward an amendment Tuesday night to abolish the Select Committee on Benghazi, before which former secretary of state Hillary Clinton is scheduled to testify Oct. 22.
Surprise! The House Majority voted down my effort to dissolve the clearly politicized #Benghazi Committee http://t.co/BRKxZf6p5c
— Louise Slaughter (@louiseslaughter) October 7, 2015
Well, this is something we should politicize. It is relevant to our common life together. To the body politic.
In a statement on her website, Slaughter managed to conflate Benghazi and Planned Parenthood.
My amendment would strike the Planned Parenthood select panel and replace it with a resolution which would abolish the Benghazi Select Committee to ensure that the House’s work is kept in appropriate bounds.Speaker-in-Waiting Kevin McCarthy accidentally told the truth last week and admitted that the Benghazi select committee had one mission alone: to influence a presidential election.
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It's clear: this Majority has select committees for politics, not governance. Let's dissolve the #Benghazi Committee http://t.co/urErWtHrpI
— Louise Slaughter (@louiseslaughter) October 6, 2015
Move to abolish Benghazi cmte latest escalation by Dems, seeking to capitalize on McCarthy remarks w/view for Hillary's Oct appearance
— Tim Mak (@timkmak) October 6, 2015
@timkmak not because the heat is about to be turned up on HRC soon. Just coincidence. Yearight
— ChateauBryan? (@golfonomics) October 6, 2015
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