Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R) took to the Senate floor on Monday night, calling for a unanimous consent to pass his S. Res. 255, which would create a Joint House and Senate Select Committee to investigate the terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Cruz’s address was countered by New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez (D) who blocked the request, saying that the call for a Select Committee to investigate the attacks was a “political trick” and a “purely political witch-hunt without merit.”Appearing on FOX News’ “Hannity” show, Cruz expressed his astonishment over the fact that Menendez, who is the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate, admitted on the floor of the Senate, that he had no idea whether President Barack Obama was sleeping during the attack.
“Twenty months after the Benghazi attack, we have four dead Americans and no dead terrorists,” Sen. Cruz said. “It is chilling to think our President had better things to do than personally attend to an ongoing terrorist attack on our people. It is chilling to imagine we could have mounted a rescue attempt of our people but did not even bother to try.
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The clock is ticking. Memories are fading. It is beyond time to get the full resources of both houses of Congress behind this investigation.”-Sen. Ted Cruz
And then Senator Menendez said this:
“I think the question is, did he even get told by those who had information such an attack was going on? I don’t know. The bottom line is, would that have saved anybody? I don’t know either.”
Cruz then added:
“The Democratic Senator from New Jersey, the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, just told this body that he has no idea if President Obama was even told four Americans were under terrorist attack, he doesn’t know what, if anything, the President could have done to save them.”
“I suggest that’s exactly the reason we need this committee. If the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee two years later cannot answer that question, it makes it abundantly clear that the response of the administration, and sadly the response of Senate Democrats, has been partisan stonewalling rather than trying to get to the truth.”
The Democrat on Capital Hill are scrambling for cover, and seem to be ready to go down with the sinking ship.
