Congressional Investigations

Congress spends untold millions of dollars on congressional investigations (primarily, for the purpose of trying to incriminate each other's party) with little or nothing to show for it. The Whitewater investigation involving Bill and Hillary Clinton was $70 million. Hillary's E-mail server issue has been estimated at roughly $20 million. The most recent Benghazi probe is known to have cost $7 million and that does not include the State Department spending $14 million and the Department of Defense $2 million just defending themselves. Who knows what the current Russian investigation will cost?

The end result is that almost no one is ever fired from a government job or goes to jail. The only winners have been the lawyers. Money that could have gone to helping the poor, improving education or reducing the national debt has been wasted solely for political purposes.