Keeping Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (left) on the hot seat.
House Democrats are continuing to press on the Benghazi Committee truth Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy let slip last week. Rep. Louise Slaughter is trying to introduce a privileged resolution that would do away with the Benghazi Committee and its partisan mission to attack Hillary Clinton. Tuesday, Slaughter got a Rules Committee vote on an amendment disbanding the Benghazi Committee. Predictably, that was voted down on a party line vote, but Slaughter isn't giving up, moving on instead to the privileged resolution, which reads in part:
- Whereas a widely-quoted statement made on September 29th, 2015 by Representative Kevin McCarthy, the Republican Leader of the House of Representatives, has called into question the integrity of the proceedings of the Select Committee and the House of Representatives as a whole;
- Whereas this statement by Representative McCarthy demonstrates that the Select Committee established by Republican leaders in the House of Representatives was created to influence public opinion of a presidential candidate;
This doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting past the Republicans who control the House, but Kevin McCarthy is
obviously very uncomfortable already, and the more ways Democrats find to keep the attention on what he said, the longer he'll stay uncomfortable and the longer the media will have to add a giant asterisk to anything coming out of the Benghazi Committee.
11:17 AM PT (Joan McCarter): Republicans killed the resolution with a procedural motion, 240-183, in a completely party-line vote.