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In reply to the discussion: GOP Leader Booed While Defending Benghazi Committee [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)28. Thanks! That's a good start but it's still incomplete.
You've linked to a running tally of the Gowdy committee's expenditures -- now past $4.6 million and climbing. It's clever that they update it second-by-second by extrapolating from last month's spending.
But note this caveat underneath:
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.
I guess adding all that up would be quite a job.
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Now when people figure out the email story is the EXACT same thing, we will be getting
randys1
Oct 2015
#1
"You're lying" should be the first response to anything that comes out of the mouth of a Republican.
Fred Sanders
Oct 2015
#4
The only unanswered question is exactly how much money has been spent on these investigations (n/t)
Jim Lane
Oct 2015
#14