In May 2014 , the House of Representatives voted to create the United States House Select Committee on Benghazi to investigate the 2012 attack on a U.S. compound in Benghazi , Libya . The committee spent more than $ 7.8 million on its investigation over two and a half years , issued its final report in December 2016 , and shut down at the conclusion of the 114th Congress . The committee was " one of the longest , costliest and most bitterly partisan congressional investigations in history " , lasting longer than the congressional inquiries into 9/11 , Watergate , the assassination of President Kennedy , and the attack on Pearl Harbor
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