Elijah Cummings actually said...

This kind of oversight can be productive, it can be critical, it can sometimes even be tedious, but it can also save lives.

One thing I want to remind all of us is that we are Americans, everybody trying to do the best they can to protect our people.

I've seen over and over again in my 17 years in Congress that departments will come in, say they're going to do things, and then they wait.

Too often over the past 2 years, the congressional investigation into what happened in Benghazi has devolved into unseemly partisanship.