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Mon Oct 19, 2015, 11:54 AM Oct 2015

Benghazi Investigation: The Cost to Taxpayers $4,776,734.66 and counting

Elijah Cummings web site.

Debt clock @ link
http://askedandanswered-democrats.benghazi.house.gov/cost/

Instead of taking concrete steps to enhance the safety and security of our diplomatic corps overseas, the Select Committee on Benghazi continues to squander millions of dollars and has nothing to show for it other than a partisan attack against Secretary Clinton and her campaign for president.

$4776734.66 ..... and counting
SPENT BY THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON BENGHAZI TO DATE*

This calculation does not include the costs of: the independent Accountability Review Board; the eight previous reports by seven Congressional committees; the time, money, and resources consumed by federal agencies to comply with Select Committee requests; or the opportunity cost of not spending this money elsewhere, like improving security for our diplomatic officers abroad.

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