Select committees are jokes. They are rarely taken seriously. They give opportunities to majority members and minority members to write separate reports that more often than not give totally partisan conclusions of the subject of the committee. The kicker is that the tax payer foots the bill for printing up almost unlimited amounts of these reports that look like very official documents in book form. Of course they also get printed online and thus become quoted by the opposing sides endlessly as if they were indeed, official government conclusions when they are nothing of the sort. If there is such a thing as official government propaganda, Select Committee Report on......is at the top of the list.