Posted on 05/09/2014 9:39:55 AM PDT by smoothsailing
The office of the speaker of the House released this list of members chosen for the Benghazi Select Committee:
WASHINGTON, DC – House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) today named the seven Republican members of the Select Committee on the Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi. The Select Committee also provides for five Democratic members, and those names will be released when provided by the House Minority Leader. Boehner issued the following statement:
“This investigation is about getting answers for the families of the victims and for the American people. 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. I also urge my Democratic colleagues to treat this tragedy with the proper respect and appoint members so that we can finally, on a bipartisan basis, get answers, provide accountability, and help deliver justice. It is critical that this committee do its work in a focused, timely manner, so that the House can continue to make the economy and job creation its priorities.”
The Republican members of the Select Committee will be:
- Rep. Susan Brooks (R-IN)
- Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), Chairman
- Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH)
- Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS)
- Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL)
- Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL)
- Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA)
I reported up thread earlier my endorsement for Rep. Peter Roskam who's from an arch-conservative district in Illinois where I lived, and where lived Roskam's predecessor, the late, great Irish Tory, Cong. Henry Hyde of everlasting Right to Life fame.
Here we go with the committee appointees.....
Congressman Trey
Say hey, he'll slay!
Our Ms. Brooks
Brains...and looks!
Tough Jim Jordan
Can't ask for more, man!
Miz Martha Roby
Watch her probe-y!
Roskam, Peter
Purple Dem eater!
Mike Pompeo
Will deliver a kayo!
Lyn Westmoreland
Passed our tests beforehand!
(.....thought I couldn't do that one, hah)
That's our committee
Shure looks pretty!
Leni
thanks!
thank you!
I’m sure Marsha Blackburn is much higher....my congressman.
2013 ACU rating 84% Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee)
To Blackburn's credit, she was rated 100% in 2012 and after 11 years in Congress has an ACU average 96% score.
2013 was Susan Brooks first year in Congress so she has no previous ACU ratings for comparison to Blackburn's.
Split tail? Good grief. You win...you got me to respond to your nonsense.
Addendum to my tagline: I grow weary of the goobers who believe men are smarter and tougher than women.
Have a great evening.
If her trajectory is same as Marshhas it looks grim
Wonder what Blackburn did to collapse
Which of these republicans on the committee are statists who will do the power elites’ bidding and obstruct leak and damage the investigation?
You know Boehner put some on there.....which one (s) are they?
I don’t think Boehner picked them. I think Gowdy did.
I can’t see Gowdy picking any statists.
These Congressmen scored 80% or higher in 2013. The ACU consider 80% or better enough to earn a “conservative” score. So Brooks and Blackburn were right around the borderline. I’d prefer 95% or better myself even though a quote Reagan used, “The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally — not a 20 percent traitor,” may be what influences the ACU standard.
Amash
Barton
Bentivolio
Bilirakis
Rob Bishop
Diane Black
Blackburn
Kevin Brady
Bridenstine
Mo Brooks
Susan Brooks
Broun
Buchanan
Bucshon
Burgess
Camp
Cantor
Cassidy
Chabot
Chaffetz
Coffman
Doug Collins
Cotton
Culberson
Daines
John Duncan
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Foxx
Franks
Gardner
Gingrey
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Tom Graves
Griffin
Hall
Harris
Hensarling
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga
Hultgren
Hurt
Jenkins
Sam Johnson
Walter Jones
Steve King
Kingston
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lankford
Long
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Marchant
Massie
McCaul
McHenry
Meadows
Messer
Mica
Jeff Miller
Mullin
Neugebauer
Olson
Palazzo
Paulsen
Perry
Pittenger
Pitts
Posey
Tom Price
Ribble
Rice
Rigell
Roe
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Ross
Rothfus
Royce
Paul Ryan
Sanford
Austin Scott
Sensenbrenner
Pete Sessions
Adrian Smith
Jason Smith
Lamar Smith
Southerland
Stewart
Stutzman
Thornberry
Wagner
Walberg
Weber
Wenstrup
Williams
Joe Wilson
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Todd Young
http://conservative.org/legislative-ratings/2013-congress
I believe she is was selected to be Gowdy’s “Point Man” as the chairman is rarely able to act as the chief questioner on matters detail based upon time share. I think she was who Gowdy wanted.
I stopped taking the ACU seriously years ago
That’s good, it’s not gospel. It offers some insight and should be considered in conjunction with other criteria.
Having said that, what other criteria do you rely on?
Lol
Amusing yankee fembots since the 70s
The pleasure has been all mine..
Cummings is going to be before the committee not sitting on it.
Is he just saying this for the mob of dopes who believe that government controls the economy or job creation? They can only cause harm. My hope is he means by simply getting government out of the way.
“...simply getting government out of the way...”
OH if ONLY!
“I will expect the RATs to name one each of black, woman, homosexual, handicapped and hispanic. If one of those is a muzzie or some combination of the aforementioned, so much the better.”
7 Rs and 5 Ds means only one R needs to flip to hang everything up. If you’re Hillary, you’re looking at that list and trying to determine who you have stuff on, who will deal with you.
...and: he survived a threat to his life by Alec Baldwin to bring forth impeachment in '98!
Thank God I'm not Hillary, what a disgusting thought.
If you're Hillary, get the hell off Free Republic, you treasonous shrew!
LOL!
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