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While trying to defend the Benghazi committee investigation into Hillary Clinton, Republican Representative, Cathy McMorris Rodgers was violently booed. It happened at the Washington Ideas Forum this Thursday. The Huffington Post reports that Rodgers was booed, yelled and hissed at. People shouted “You’re lying!” as Rodgers attempted to dispel the notion that the committee was not politically inspired. “I do believe that the work that we’re doing in the Benghazi committee is very important,” said Rodgers. “We’ve not yet had important questions answered,” she said. For more on this, read the Huffington Post article titled: “Cathy McMorris Rodgers Booed Over GOP’s Benghazi...

It’s official: the Republican-controlled House’s kangaroo court “investigation” into the Benghazi attacks has now gone on longer than any other congressional inquiry in history, at a cost to taxpayers of $4.5 million and counting. Under the guise of investigating 2012’s tragic attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, the committee has become a publicly-funded platform for Republicans to launch political attacks against the Obama administration and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. “The Benghazi Select Committee has now become one of the longest and least active congressional investigations in history,” said Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, in a statement....

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Fox News host Sean Hannity that the Benghazi investigation is working just as planned. Hillary Clinton’s numbers are dropping, and that we the real goal: Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she’s untrustable. But no one would’ve known any of that had happened had we not fought and made that happen. The Benghazi Select Committee has now become one of the longest and least active congressional investigations in history,” Ranking Member...