Top Democrat Urges Paul Ryan To Disband Benghazi, Planned Parenthood Committees
Source: HuffingtonPost
Top Democrat Urges Paul Ryan To Disband Benghazi, Planned Parenthood Committees
"You now have the chance for a fresh start."
Jennifer Bendery
Posted: 10/29/2015 10:47 AM EDT
WASHINGTON -- It's a new day in the House. Speaker Paul Ryan is at your service, and he's already gotten his first request. It's from a top Democrat who hopes Ryan means it when he says he wants to restore people's trust in Congress.
Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), the ranking Democrat on the Rules Committee, wrote to Ryan on Thursday, urging him to disband the GOP's select committees on Benghazi and on Planned Parenthood.
"While your predecessor assumed the speakership with promises of restoring the House 'as a place where the people’s will is done,' he leaves Congress saddled with two partisan committees that waste the taxpayer’s money and distract from the true business of running the country," Slaughter wrote. "You now have the chance for a fresh start."
The Benghazi committee has spent nearly $5 million investigating the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, ..........................
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It's unlikely Ryan will disband the committees -- the GOP has made a big push on both issues -- but this story will be updated if Ryan's office has any comment.
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I give her credit for trying.
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