Papantonio: Big Oil Republicans Endangering Your Children
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Republicans Lose Texas Abortion Battle
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Republicans named to the Benghazi Committee include Roby, middle, and Roskam, right. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call File Photo)
Speaker John A. Boehner on Friday announced the Republicans who will serve on the special committee to investigate the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
The Ohio Republican stood on the House floor and read off the names of the selected members before a chamber hushed in anticipation, noting in a statement following the selections that the investigation is about getting truth for the victims families.
These members have each demonstrated a commitment to this goal, and I have confidence that they will lead a serious, fact-based inquiry. As I have expressed to each of them, I expect this committee to carry out an investigation worthy of the American lives lost in Benghazi, Boehner said in the statement.
The appointees are Reps. Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia, Jim Jordan of Ohio, Peter Roskam of Illinois, Mike Pompeo of Kansas, Martha Roby of Alabama and Susan W. Brooks of Indiana. Boehner named Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina the chairman-designate earlier this week.
Boehners appointments were highly anticipated but the members he chose were not especially surprising to staff or reporters. Most of them had, in fact, been floated as contenders for the job throughout the week, and in choosing them, Boehner satisfied a wide breadth of constituencies within his conference, be they ideological, jurisdictional and in some cases, personal.
Boehner chose members who sit on most of the major committees who have investigated the Beghazi attack. He also chose members who have deep roots in the conservative movement while also ensuring leadership has a trusted ear on the committee.
Roskam, the highest ranking member on who will serve on the committee, is the conferences chief deputy whip. As a sitting member of leadership, he will arguably be Boehners most steady hand on the panel, and is a former trial lawyer.
Jordan was widely said to be vying for a slot on the Benghazi panel and is, like Gowdy, a member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the lead panel investigating the attacks thus far. A former chairman of the Republican Study Committee, he has a conservative pedigree sure to satisfy far-right members of the base who want the Benghazi committee to be sufficiently aggressive in its lines of inquiry.
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Republicans Named to Benghazi Committee (Video)
Among Republicans, the competition to be named to the House Select Committee on Benghazi was intense. Among Democrats, it is nonexistent.
In the week since House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) said the House would set up a special select committee to probe the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks that killed four U.S. citizens in Benghazi, Libya, dozens of Republicans expressed interest in six remaining GOP seats on the 12-member panel. Mr. Boehner has already tapped Rep. Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.) as chairman, taking the seventh GOP position.
On Friday Mr. Boehner said the other Republican members of the panel would be Reps. Susan Brooks of Indiana, Jim Jordan of Ohio, Mike Pompeo of Kansas, Martha Roby of Alabama, Peter Roskam of Illinois and Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia.
Democratic leaders have not yet named their members and there appears to be little appetite for the five seats they are allotted.
This is not one of those plum positions that people fight for, said Rep. Raul Grijalva (D., Ariz.)
This is not one where youre going to build name credibility in the long term, so those that are on it have to be really strong, he said Friday.
Even some of the tiny group of Democrats who voted Thursday night with Republicans to form the panel said they werent hoping to serve on it.
Not my area of expertise, said Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.), one of seven Democrats to support creating the committee. Im on the Financial Services Committeegood place for me.
On Thursday, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D., Conn.) suggested in a letter to colleagues naming just a single member to participate, a move designed to allow Democrats to participate while still making clear they think the panel is a just a partisan exercise.
Among Republicans, being named to the Benghazi committee has more allure.
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