How Many House Committees Are Currently Probing the Obama Administration?

If a special prosecutor is appointed to investigate the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups, it will be only the latest in a long string of inquiries into Obama administration activities. Half a dozen committees in the House alone are probing administration actions. Here’s a look at which committees are probing what.

 

House Committee Inquiries into the Obama Administration

 

Subject

Committees

Attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya

Armed Services

Foreign Affairs

Judiciary

Oversight and Government Reform

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Boston Marathon bombing

Foreign Affairs

Homeland Security

Judiciary

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

IRS targeting of conservative groups for examination

Oversight and Government Reform

Ways and Means

Fundraising to promote 2010 health care law

Ways and Means

Justice Department search of Associated Press phone records

Judiciary

Reporting by CHRIS FRATES