Rep. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) is fed up with charges that Republicans are politicizing Benghazi. So he took to the House floor Thursday and issued this stern rebuke to Democrats who are supposedly "outraged" over GOP focus on the 2012 attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans:
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