Issa Votes to Establish the Select Committee on Benghazi

WASHINGTON – House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) issued the following statement on the U.S. House of Representatives vote to establish the Select Committee on the Events Surrounding Benghazi headed by Oversight Committee member Trey Gowdy (R-SC).

“Today’s vote to establish a Select Committee on Benghazi is an important step toward making the White House accountable to the American people.  This administration has obscured facts around their response to the tragedy, withheld documents from Congress and the President himself called this tragic loss of life a ‘phony scandal’.  Building on the efforts of the Oversight Committee, the newly formed Select Committee on Benghazi will work to pull the White House’s deception into the light.”