Elijah Cummings actually said...

I want to thank our colleague Representative Schiff for proposing the topic for today's hearing.

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.

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

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