re: Sen.King (I) of Maine may flop to GOP in 2015

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As well as holding the chairs of all Senate committees and thus determining what and who is investigated and scrutinized and to what degree.

Indeed, and worth the repeat NHT.

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A pertinent example of the importance of committee control:

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is the counterpart to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. These committees are the primary oversight committees to the affairs of the State Department, home to the the primary culprits in the pre-Sept. 11th Benghazi story.

Though so much of what we hear regarding the several House committees' work on Benghazi emanates from Issa's Oversight and Government Reform Committee and Rogers' House Select Intelligence Committee, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, under low-profile Chairman Ed Royce has been a bulldog regarding Benghazi, continuing its work and as recently as two months ago releasing a very informative and pertinent report. They are "on the job" regarding Benghazi.

Over in the Senate, that pillar of integrity Bob Menendez, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, after just four hearings (two open,including the Hillary appearance, and two closed) and no formal reports, put Benghazi to bed as an issue for his committee almost a year ago, on May 10th, 2013.

With a Republican Senate, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would be joining in the call for a Joint Select Committee on Benghazi, and certainly would not have closed out their work on this issue, with NO reports of findings, 11 months ago.