Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, yesterday, FOX News reported that ``massive amounts of highly sensitive U.S. military equipment'' has been stolen in Libya by militia groups aligned with terrorists. These new developments, along with earlier reports that hundreds of surface-to-air missiles may have been stolen around the time of the Benghazi attack, beg the question: Just what has the U.S. been doing in Benghazi and around Libya over the last year? Today, the State Department inspector general issued a new report criticizing the Department for failing to take any meaningful steps to improve diplomatic security at high-risk posts, like the facility attacked in Benghazi, over the last year. That is why, Mr. Speaker, a select committee is needed now more than ever--not just to investigate the attack in Benghazi but also to answer the question about U.S. operations in Libya involving stolen weapons and arms transfers over the last year. One hundred and seventy-seven Members have cosponsored H. Res. 36 to create a select committee. Without a select committee, we are never going to know what happened in Benghazi. ____________________”