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Where's the doofus Gowdy Committee on B******i? Is this what he meant by stretching it out?
Jun 29, 2014 11:06:56   #
Jack2014
 
Remember several months ago how Boehner assembled his blue ribbon committee to address the major issue of the day-B******i? He,with great fanfare selected that great pillar of Texas justice,Doofus Gowdy to head the committee.
He promised with due diligence to pursue his 10 unanswered (answered already) questions to show that President Obama and Hillary Clinton( as SOS) were responsible for the loss of four American lives including that of Ambassador Stevens. Remember the big furor about Assa demanding that Current SOS Kerry be subpeonied to testify before his committee which Kerry and the State Department declared would satisfy the need to testify and would negate any and all requests from Doofus Gowdy's Committee. It appeared that the CIRCUS REPUGLICANUS WAS IN FULL SWING! Doofus Gowdy reported that he was going to conduct the B******i trial very effectively and get to the bottom of the issues especially the guilt of Clinton and Obama.
So, where is the Gowdy super committee? Have they met to at least organize themselves? No! Have they met with the press lately to report their real mission which was too make waves and distract Americans away from the house Repuglicanus's rotten accomplishment record? No!
What's the deal? Are they done for the summer after doing nothing? They are going on extended summer fall vacation very soon. Shouldn't they at least tell us Gowdy's answers to his own 10 questions. Or is he asleep again? Or is he considering changing the committees goal to look at the lost Emails that Assa is botching?
ASK YOURSELF, CAN THE DO-NOTHING CONGRESS DO-NOTHING MORE EFFECTIVELY? REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!

Remember this? Gowdy was going to pin Benghazi on her for sure!
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This was Gowdy's slip of the tongue of the day!
This was Gowdy's slip of the tongue of the day!...

Was Doofus Gowdy on this Titanic? Did he go down? With the ship I mean
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Jun 29, 2014 16:43:51   #
lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas
 
Jack2014 wrote:
Remember several months ago how Boehner assembled his blue ribbon committee to address the major issue of the day-B******i? He,with great fanfare selected that great pillar of Texas justice,Doofus Gowdy to head the committee.
He promised with due diligence to pursue his 10 unanswered (answered already) questions to show that President Obama and Hillary Clinton( as SOS) were responsible for the loss of four American lives including that of Ambassador Stevens. Remember the big furor about Assa demanding that Current SOS Kerry be subpeonied to testify before his committee which Kerry and the State Department declared would satisfy the need to testify and would negate any and all requests from Doofus Gowdy's Committee. It appeared that the CIRCUS REPUGLICANUS WAS IN FULL SWING! Doofus Gowdy reported that he was going to conduct the B******i trial very effectively and get to the bottom of the issues especially the guilt of Clinton and Obama.
So, where is the Gowdy super committee? Have they met to at least organize themselves? No! Have they met with the press lately to report their real mission which was too make waves and distract Americans away from the house Repuglicanus's rotten accomplishment record? No!
What's the deal? Are they done for the summer after doing nothing? They are going on extended summer fall vacation very soon. Shouldn't they at least tell us Gowdy's answers to his own 10 questions. Or is he asleep again? Or is he considering changing the committees goal to look at the lost Emails that Assa is botching?
ASK YOURSELF, CAN THE DO-NOTHING CONGRESS DO-NOTHING MORE EFFECTIVELY? REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!
Remember several months ago how Boehner assembled ... (show quote)


but that's why they've gotten nothing done, they've spent so much time with hearing after hearing, trying to get the results they want. They've tried repealing ACA, how many times? 52? I believe Einstein had a saying to characterize this kind of behavior, something to do with insanity.

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Jun 29, 2014 22:16:58   #
Jack2014
 
lpnmajor wrote:
but that's why they've gotten nothing done, they've spent so much time with hearing after hearing, trying to get the results they want. They've tried repealing ACA, how many times? 52? I believe Einstein had a saying to characterize this kind of behavior, something to do with insanity.


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Jul 1, 2014 22:15:57   #
Jack2014
 
Has anybody seen Gowdy?
Any photos of him sleeping on Assa's committee?
No chance to answer his own questions that have already been answered?

Bill Clinton Shreds Rand Paul and The B******i Obsessed Republican Party

By: Jason Easleymore from Jason Easley
Sunday, June, 29th, 2014, 11:42 am


In a matter of seconds, former President Clinton went on Meet The Press and showed Rand Paul and the Republican Party why hopes of winning in 2016 on B******i

When David Gregory asked Clinton about Rand Paul’s claim that B******i disqualifies Hillary Clinton as a p**********l candidate, he answered, “Well, let’s go back to the first question because it’s serious. That’s not a serious comment. That’s not a serious question. Rand Paul, when ten different instances occurred when President Bush was in office where American diplomatic personnel were k**led around the world. How many outraged Republican members of Congress were there? Zero.”

The Meet The Press interview demonstrated that Bill and Hillary have their fingers on the critical issue that will determine the outcome of the 2016 e******n. Just as it was in 1992, the issue is the economy. As former President Clinton said, the economy has recovered the jobs that were lost, but now it is time to bring wages up. Clinton said that he believed that it was time for both sides to work together again to get the economy moving. The blueprint for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 run is coming into focus. She is going to hammer the issue of the economy every single day on the campaign trail. The Clinton legacy of economic success gives her built in credibility that other candidates won’t have.

Former President Clinton easily cut through Republican noisemakers on B******i. Clinton was careful not to say that Paul wasn’t a serious candidate, but the message was clear that Republicans shouldn’t be taken seriously when they go down conspiracy rabbit holes like B******i.

After eight years of bitter partisan warfare, the time might be right for Hillary Clinton’s message in 2016. Tactically, by giving the right-wing conspiracies no credibility, President Clinton was moving the discussion towards the issue that he wanted to talk about. In strategic terms, the Clintons have been driving the narrative. Bill and Hillary Clinton aren’t afraid of Rand Paul, or anything else the Republican Party can throw at them.

Gowdy's plan
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He needs to call bucheney to testify he is such an expert on lyong
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Jul 1, 2014 22:30:13   #
Had enough
 
Jack2014 wrote:
Has anybody seen Gowdy?
Any photos of him sleeping on Assa's committee?
No chance to answer his own questions that have already been answered?

Bill Clinton Shreds Rand Paul and The B******i Obsessed Republican Party

By: Jason Easleymore from Jason Easley
Sunday, June, 29th, 2014, 11:42 am


In a matter of seconds, former President Clinton went on Meet The Press and showed Rand Paul and the Republican Party why hopes of winning in 2016 on B******i

When David Gregory asked Clinton about Rand Paul’s claim that B******i disqualifies Hillary Clinton as a p**********l candidate, he answered, “Well, let’s go back to the first question because it’s serious. That’s not a serious comment. That’s not a serious question. Rand Paul, when ten different instances occurred when President Bush was in office where American diplomatic personnel were k**led around the world. How many outraged Republican members of Congress were there? Zero.”

The Meet The Press interview demonstrated that Bill and Hillary have their fingers on the critical issue that will determine the outcome of the 2016 e******n. Just as it was in 1992, the issue is the economy. As former President Clinton said, the economy has recovered the jobs that were lost, but now it is time to bring wages up. Clinton said that he believed that it was time for both sides to work together again to get the economy moving. The blueprint for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 run is coming into focus. She is going to hammer the issue of the economy every single day on the campaign trail. The Clinton legacy of economic success gives her built in credibility that other candidates won’t have.

Former President Clinton easily cut through Republican noisemakers on B******i. Clinton was careful not to say that Paul wasn’t a serious candidate, but the message was clear that Republicans shouldn’t be taken seriously when they go down conspiracy rabbit holes like B******i.

After eight years of bitter partisan warfare, the time might be right for Hillary Clinton’s message in 2016. Tactically, by giving the right-wing conspiracies no credibility, President Clinton was moving the discussion towards the issue that he wanted to talk about. In strategic terms, the Clintons have been driving the narrative. Bill and Hillary Clinton aren’t afraid of Rand Paul, or anything else the Republican Party can throw at them.
Has anybody seen Gowdy? br Any photos of him sleep... (show quote)


--------------harry the puke reid has refused to allow any republican bills to be
V**ed on in the senate. So ok the republicans therefore haven't got anything done, maybe!!! What is the demonRATS excuse, and don't blame the republicans have blocked them!!! Where are the shovel ready jobs? Why did the economy shrink in the first quarter? Why are so many on food stamps?? Oh I know that one, because the demoncRATs have been going out of their way to sign everyone up that can hold a pen is why!!!! Where's the jobs, you demoncRATs are in charge that's why!!!!!!

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Jul 1, 2014 23:29:14   #
Jack2014
 
Had enough wrote:
--------------harry the puke reid has refused to allow any republican bills to be
V**ed on in the senate. So ok the republicans therefore haven't got anything done, maybe!!! What is the demonRATS excuse, and don't blame the republicans have blocked them!!! Where are the shovel ready jobs? Why did the economy shrink in the first quarter? Why are so many on food stamps?? Oh I know that one, because the demoncRATs have been going out of their way to sign everyone up that can hold a pen is why!!!! Where's the jobs, you demoncRATs are in charge that's why!!!!!!
--------------harry the puke reid has refused to a... (show quote)


Had ENOEGH of what?
R lies? Or TPer lies?
Harry Reid has tabled every stupid TPer bill BC they all are designed to weaken or destroy ACA.
No job bills presented. All would cause job losses
No t***s bill-sitting on Boeners desk-700000 jobs at risk
Bucheney lost 11 million jobs
Bucheney closed 65000 plants
Bucheney and Romney sent 3.5 million jobs and tech and equip to China
Bucheney spent $11 trillion and are responsible along w Reagan,and Bush1 for our $17 trillion debt
Where is Gowdy?
Asleep I bet listening to Assa again

Better start listening to the next president,puke
Better start listening to the next president,puke...

Gowdy's game plan-screw up
Gowdy's game plan-screw up...

It's more now of course. Prove it wrong if you understand the math. Hahaha
It's more now of course. Prove it wrong if you und...

Read and weep,pukes
Read and weep,pukes...

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Jul 10, 2014 11:36:25   #
Jack2014
 
Jack2014 wrote:
Had ENOEGH of what?
R lies? Or TPer lies?
Harry Reid has tabled every stupid TPer bill BC they all are designed to weaken or destroy ACA.
No job bills presented. All would cause job losses
No t***s bill-sitting on Boeners desk-700000 jobs at risk
Bucheney lost 11 million jobs
Bucheney closed 65000 plants
Bucheney and Romney sent 3.5 million jobs and tech and equip to China
Bucheney spent $11 trillion and are responsible along w Reagan,and Bush1 for our $17 trillion debt
Where is Gowdy?
Asleep I bet listening to Assa again
Had ENOEGH of what? br R lies? Or TPer lies? br Ha... (show quote)


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Reputation for Zeal Precedes Republican Leading New B******i Inquiry
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WASHINGTON — Representative Trey Gowdy was cutting the grass in the front yard of his Spartanburg, S.C., house when Speaker John A. Boehner called with a special assignment.

Mr. Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican and a former prosecutor whose peculiar hairstyle has generated almost as much news media coverage as his v****g record, has made a name for himself over his barely two terms in office with his tenacious questioning of Obama administration officials in committee rooms. Yet his relationships with Democrats on Capitol Hill are far more nuanced than many of his conservative brethren.

Which made him the speaker’s ideal choice for leading a new politically charged congressional committee investigating the 2012 attack on the diplomatic mission in B******i, Libya. Despite skepticism in many quarters, Mr. Gowdy promises a process — which began Wednesday when his full committee met for the first time — that will be both plodding and fair.

“This will not be what people on the left fear it is going to be,” Mr. Gowdy said over lunch at the Capitol Hill Club, a dining room for Republicans where he has the same dinner — varying species of fish as well as fresh fruit — every night that Congress is in session, most often with his fellow South Carolina Republican, Senator Tim Scott.

Nearly two years after the attack in Libya that k**led the United States ambassador there, J. Christopher Stevens, and three other Americans, Democrats are increasingly angry that Republicans are not relenting in their criticism of the administration over B******i, which has already been examined by six congressional committees. To them, the issue has devolved from national tragedy to partisan farce.

“The day the committee was announced, Republicans began fund-raising off it,” said Representative Steve Israel of New York, who also leads the committee to elect House Democrats.

Yet many lawmakers on both the Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the House Judiciary Committee who serve with Mr. Gowdy — as well as some Obama administration officials who have entered his jurisdictional cross hairs — say he may be the most favorable Republican for the job. (For one, they say that he has not been fund-raising off his work on the committee and that he is critical of the practice.)

“Trey has a real existential moment of what imprint he wants to make,” said Representative Gerald E. Connolly, Democrat of Virginia, who serves with Mr. Gowdy on the oversight committee. He can be, Mr. Connolly said, “another partisan flare who came and went, or acquit himself as an honorable person, which I think he is.”

“If he does that, he will be a very serious player in the United States Congress,” Mr. Connolly said.

Richard W. Vieth, a criminal defense lawyer who worked with Mr. Gowdy as a prosecutor and later against him in courtrooms, echoed that assessment. “He was someone I knew I could trust,” he said. “But I knew in the courtroom he’d be very combative.”

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Mr. Gowdy’s habits of tearing up during floor speeches, ripping into witnesses and general acts of excoriation find their roots in his 16 years of prosecutorial work in South Carolina, where his record of convictions in more than 100 cases was nearly unblemished.

His style was foreshadowed in his emotional closing arguments, as in a 2008 case of the murder of a married couple. “Sometimes death walks slowly and knocks gently,” he said, describing the crime to the jury. “Sometimes it kicks in the front door.”

He has set no deadline for the committee, composed of seven Republicans and five Democrats, to complete its work. His annual budget for the committee is $3.3 million.

Mr. Gowdy’s passion for debate surfaced early in life, when he would argue politics with his parents and three sisters at the dinner table, said his mother, Novalene Gowdy. “If he were still in the law and I committed a crime, he’d prosecute me,” she said. “He is very law oriented.”

At Baylor University in Texas, Mr. Gowdy, 49, was a cheerful student who devoured episodes of “Miami Vice,” said Robert Thornton, his fraternity brother in Kappa Omega Tau.

A quick wit, love of metaphors and penchant for quoting philosophers were Mr. Gowdy’s hallmarks. “I might be showing him a house,” said Mr. Thornton, a home builder in Texas, “and he will drop a reference to Kierkegaard.”

Mr. Gowdy graduated from college in 1986 with a degree in history, went on to the University of South Carolina School of Law and clerked for two judges. After a family friend was murdered in Charlotte in 1994, he said he “felt a strong pull to be a prosecutor.”

He worked as an assistant United States attorney until 2000, then took on a sitting solicitor and won, continuing to prosecute for the next decade. In 2010, he routed Representative Bob Inglis in the Republican primary, then easily won the seat that fall in his heavily Republican district.

For some Republicans, Mr. Gowdy’s predilection for picking off members of his own party has made him akin to Inspector Javert in “Les Miserables” — dev**ed to the law but not always to mercy. “I’m sure he has some rationale for the things he has done,” Mr. Inglis said in a phone interview.

Mr. Gowdy responded: “The graveyard is full of people waiting on open seats. I have this belief that if you are qualified and you believe that you would do a good job doing something, there is no reason you shouldn’t run.” He once vowed to retire after two terms. This summer, he officially unretired to run for a third term.

Some Democrats on the committee have longstanding relationships with Mr. Gowdy, among them Representative Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, the committee’s ranking Democrat. Mr. Cummings went to Mr. Gowdy to seek his reassurances that there would be “no surprises” before agreeing to serve with him.

“I have a tremendous amount of respect for Gowdy,” Mr. Cummings said. “He has always treated me with the highest level of respect.”

On Wednesday, Mr. Gowdy’s committee received a classified briefing from various agencies about Ahmed Abu Khattala, the Libyan m*****a leader charged in connection with the k*****g of the four Americans in B******i. The committee will continue to meet this month, with public hearings weeks if not months away.

Some believe that Mr. Gowdy might take the investigation into at least one area that binds both parties.

“There is the question of what you do to bring the perp to justice,” said Matthew Miller, a former spokesman for Eric H. Holder Jr., the attorney general who once roasted under the Gowdy boiler during hearings on the botched gun-trafficking case called Operation Fast and Furious. “You would think Gowdy might respect, as a prosecutor, the need to let the government do its job.”

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Jul 23, 2014 12:43:12   #
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Reputation for Zeal Precedes Republican Leading New B******i Inquiry
By JENNIFER STEINHAUERJULY 9, 2014
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Representative Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, a prosecutor for 16 years, has made a name for himself in barely two terms in office for his tenacious questioning of administration officials. Credit James Lawler Duggan/Reuters
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WASHINGTON — Representative Trey Gowdy was cutting the grass in the front yard of his Spartanburg, S.C., house when Speaker John A. Boehner called with a special assignment.

Mr. Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican and a former prosecutor whose peculiar hairstyle has generated almost as much news media coverage as his v****g record, has made a name for himself over his barely two terms in office with his tenacious questioning of Obama administration officials in committee rooms. Yet his relationships with Democrats on Capitol Hill are far more nuanced than many of his conservative brethren.

Which made him the speaker’s ideal choice for leading a new politically charged congressional committee investigating the 2012 attack on the diplomatic mission in B******i, Libya. Despite skepticism in many quarters, Mr. Gowdy promises a process — which began Wednesday when his full committee met for the first time — that will be both plodding and fair.

“This will not be what people on the left fear it is going to be,” Mr. Gowdy said over lunch at the Capitol Hill Club, a dining room for Republicans where he has the same dinner — varying species of fish as well as fresh fruit — every night that Congress is in session, most often with his fellow South Carolina Republican, Senator Tim Scott.

Nearly two years after the attack in Libya that k**led the United States ambassador there, J. Christopher Stevens, and three other Americans, Democrats are increasingly angry that Republicans are not relenting in their criticism of the administration over B******i, which has already been examined by six congressional committees. To them, the issue has devolved from national tragedy to partisan farce.

“The day the committee was announced, Republicans began fund-raising off it,” said Representative Steve Israel of New York, who also leads the committee to elect House Democrats.

Yet many lawmakers on both the Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the House Judiciary Committee who serve with Mr. Gowdy — as well as some Obama administration officials who have entered his jurisdictional cross hairs — say he may be the most favorable Republican for the job. (For one, they say that he has not been fund-raising off his work on the committee and that he is critical of the practice.)

“Trey has a real existential moment of what imprint he wants to make,” said Representative Gerald E. Connolly, Democrat of Virginia, who serves with Mr. Gowdy on the oversight committee. He can be, Mr. Connolly said, “another partisan flare who came and went, or acquit himself as an honorable person, which I think he is.”

“If he does that, he will be a very serious player in the United States Congress,” Mr. Connolly said.

Richard W. Vieth, a criminal defense lawyer who worked with Mr. Gowdy as a prosecutor and later against him in courtrooms, echoed that assessment. “He was someone I knew I could trust,” he said. “But I knew in the courtroom he’d be very combative.”

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Mr. Gowdy’s habits of tearing up during floor speeches, ripping into witnesses and general acts of excoriation find their roots in his 16 years of prosecutorial work in South Carolina, where his record of convictions in more than 100 cases was nearly unblemished.

His style was foreshadowed in his emotional closing arguments, as in a 2008 case of the murder of a married couple. “Sometimes death walks slowly and knocks gently,” he said, describing the crime to the jury. “Sometimes it kicks in the front door.”

He has set no deadline for the committee, composed of seven Republicans and five Democrats, to complete its work. His annual budget for the committee is $3.3 million.

Mr. Gowdy’s passion for debate surfaced early in life, when he would argue politics with his parents and three sisters at the dinner table, said his mother, Novalene Gowdy. “If he were still in the law and I committed a crime, he’d prosecute me,” she said. “He is very law oriented.”

At Baylor University in Texas, Mr. Gowdy, 49, was a cheerful student who devoured episodes of “Miami Vice,” said Robert Thornton, his fraternity brother in Kappa Omega Tau.

A quick wit, love of metaphors and penchant for quoting philosophers were Mr. Gowdy’s hallmarks. “I might be showing him a house,” said Mr. Thornton, a home builder in Texas, “and he will drop a reference to Kierkegaard.”

Mr. Gowdy graduated from college in 1986 with a degree in history, went on to the University of South Carolina School of Law and clerked for two judges. After a family friend was murdered in Charlotte in 1994, he said he “felt a strong pull to be a prosecutor.”

He worked as an assistant United States attorney until 2000, then took on a sitting solicitor and won, continuing to prosecute for the next decade. In 2010, he routed Representative Bob Inglis in the Republican primary, then easily won the seat that fall in his heavily Republican district.

For some Republicans, Mr. Gowdy’s predilection for picking off members of his own party has made him akin to Inspector Javert in “Les Miserables” — dev**ed to the law but not always to mercy. “I’m sure he has some rationale for the things he has done,” Mr. Inglis said in a phone interview.

Mr. Gowdy responded: “The graveyard is full of people waiting on open seats. I have this belief that if you are qualified and you believe that you would do a good job doing something, there is no reason you shouldn’t run.” He once vowed to retire after two terms. This summer, he officially unretired to run for a third term.

Some Democrats on the committee have longstanding relationships with Mr. Gowdy, among them Representative Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, the committee’s ranking Democrat. Mr. Cummings went to Mr. Gowdy to seek his reassurances that there would be “no surprises” before agreeing to serve with him.

“I have a tremendous amount of respect for Gowdy,” Mr. Cummings said. “He has always treated me with the highest level of respect.”

On Wednesday, Mr. Gowdy’s committee received a classified briefing from various agencies about Ahmed Abu Khattala, the Libyan m*****a leader charged in connection with the k*****g of the four Americans in B******i. The committee will continue to meet this month, with public hearings weeks if not months away.

Some believe that Mr. Gowdy might take the investigation into at least one area that binds both parties.

“There is the question of what you do to bring the perp to justice,” said Matthew Miller, a former spokesman for Eric H. Holder Jr., the attorney general who once roasted under the Gowdy boiler during hearings on the botched gun-trafficking case called Operation Fast and Furious. “You would think Gowdy might respect, as a prosecutor, the need to let the government do its job.”
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By Molly K. Hooper - 07/22/14 06:00 AM EDT
A Republican lawmaker says he wants a newly formed committee that is investigating the 2012 B******i attacks to start holding hearings during the August recess.

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Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.) tells The Hill that Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the chairman of the Select panel, is busy hiring staffers for the high-profile panel.
"I hope that they start holding hearings even if we're not here in August," he said. It remains unclear, however, if that will happen.

Asked if former secretary of State Hillary Clinton should testify on the attacks that left four Americans dead, Huizenga said the potential 2016 Democratic p**********l contender still has questions to answer.

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Will B******i hearings start soon?
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By Molly K. Hooper - 07/22/14 06:00 AM EDT
A Republican lawmaker says he wants a newly formed committee that is investigating the 2012 B******i attacks to start holding hearings during the August recess.

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Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.) tells The Hill that Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), the chairman of the Select panel, is busy hiring staffers for the high-profile panel.
"I hope that they start holding hearings even if we're not here in August," he said. It remains unclear, however, if that will happen.

Asked if former secretary of State Hillary Clinton should testify on the attacks that left four Americans dead, Huizenga said the potential 2016 Democratic p**********l contender still has questions to answer.

TAGS:Bill Huizenga, Hillary Clinton, B******i

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Anybody seen doofus Gowdy yet? Picked up his $3.7 million committee allowance and split eh

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They all have lost their marbles...

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