i'm very pleased with the leadership of benny thompson, our chairman, the bi partisan nature of our committee, with las cheney. the other members who are on the committee, who have experience and patriotism as their calling heart pelosi is responsible for picking who sits on the investigative committee. and has it been heavily criticized by the opposition for rejecting to other republicans who had put their names forward. cheney, though, appears to back policies. decision. pelosi has created a sham process. house. democrats must answer this question. why are you allowing a lame duck speaker? to destroy this institution? this is the people's house, not pelosi, the house, the rhetoric that we have heard from the minority leader is disingenuous. the minority leader has attempted to prevent the american people from understanding what happened to block this investigation. pelosi has accepted 3 other republicans onto the panel, but that hasn't appeased to their party, which is threatening to launch its own investigation into what happened. now, a quick reminder of the events under investigation on