Ranking Member Johnson Response to “Ramp Up” of Investigation into Clinton Email Server
(Washington, DC) – Today, Ranking Member Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) released the following statement in response to the letters from Chairman Smith and Senator Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, in which they “ramp up” their “investigation” into Secretary Clinton’s email server.
“This action takes the Science Committee one more step down a path of increasingly ideological and partisan-driven ‘investigations.’ As I said when Chairman Smith first considered pursuing this matter, ‘While couched in the verbiage of pursuing legitimate Committee oversight, it is clear that this latest ‘oversight’ is nothing less than a transparent attempt to score political points, effectively turning the Committee into little more than an arm of the Republican National Committee.’ This is just another of the actions that have turned the Science Committee into an object of derision rather than the home of serious congressional science and technology policymaking that has been its hallmark over the past six decades. Using the Committee's resources to rehash an issue that the Benghazi committee spent $7 million in taxpayer dollars to investigate is no more than a transparently partisan attempt to aid the Trump campaign and is not what this Committee should be about. This is another sad day for the Committee.”
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