On the recordMay 8, 2014
I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2012, terrorists stormed the American consulate in Benghazi. Four Americans were murdered. Nineteen months later, the killers are still running loose. One killer was even interviewed on CNN, but this country cannot capture him and his fellow outlaws. Why? What has been the problem? Today there are more questions than answers. Americans are still not really sure what happened that night and the days following the attack. Several House committees launched investigations but were stonewalled. Subpoenas were issued but ignored. And last week, a White House email was disclosed that indicated there may have been coordination to purposely deceive Congress about what really happened. Did the administration deceive America? If so, why? Let's find out. We have no choice but to establish this select committee to ensure that the full story is told, even if the evidence reveals an inconvenient truth, to shine light on what happened when Americans overseas were murdered in the darkness of the night. And to those who oppose this bill, I ask the question, Mr. Speaker: Why don't they want to know all of the facts? Let's find the truth--the good, the bad, and the ugly truth. Justice demands it, and justice is what we do in this country. And that's just the way it is. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the gentlewoman from New York will control the remaining time for the minority. There was no objection.
