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 &lt;a href="Joint%20Inquiry%20into%20Intelligence%20Community%20Activities%20before%20and%20after%20the%20Terrorist%20Attacks%20of%20September%2011%2C%202001"&gt;congressional inquiries into 9/11&lt;/a&gt;, Watergate, the assassination of President Kennedy, and the attack on Pearl Harbor.