While the House Select Committee on Benghazi was originally expected to reveal its findings by the end of this year, the release of the highly anticipated report could be delayed until 2016.
The delay would cause the report to be released during the key months of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
Republicans on the committee sought to put the blame for the potential delay on Clinton and other members of the Obama administration.
"Factors beyond the committee's control, including witness availability, compliance with documents requests, the granting of security clearances and accreditations—all of which are controlled by the Executive branch—could continue to impact the timing of the inquiry's conclusion," said spokesman Jamal Ware.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, also suggested the committee could finish its work much faster if Obama administration officials would cooperate.
"They could clean this up a whole lot quicker if the administration and former Secretary Clinton were in a position to actually cooperate with the committee and turn over the type of information that we've been seeking for some time," Boehner told reporters at a news conference on Wednesday.
"But the administration has made it virtually impossible to get to the facts surrounding Benghazi," he added. "When we have the facts, we'll have the report."
Meanwhile, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., accused the GOP of playing politics due to Clinton's role as the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.
"With the Republicans' obsessive focus on Hillary Clinton, and their now stated intention to drag out this political charade until just months before the 2016 election, the Select Committee no longer bears any resemblance to its original purpose," Cummings said.
Critics have regularly accused Republicans of politicizing the Benghazi attacks because of Clinton's presidential ambitions, noting that there have already been multiple Congressional probes.
Clinton was serving as Secretary of State during the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, which resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.
Republicans argue that the select committee is necessary because Congressional Democrats and the White House have stonewalled previous investigations.
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., the chairman of the select committee, has asked Clinton to appear before the committee at least two times, including once for a private, transcribed interview on her use of a private email server while Secretary of State.
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