IF YOU REALLY WANT TO HURT THEM, BAN ANY EXPENDITURE ON BOOZE, CONFERENCES, OR RESTAURANT MEALS: House panel moves to block State funding over Benghazi emails.

House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled a spending bill that would withhold some funding for the State Department until officials cooperate with their investigation into the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

The House Appropriations Committee’s State and Foreign Operations bill for fiscal 2016 “withholds 15 percent of State Department’s operational funds until requirements related to proper management of Freedom of Information Act [FOIA] and electronic communications are met,” Republicans said in a statement.

The bill makes good on a threat the House GOP had been considering earlier this month to use funding as leverage to obtain documents related to Hillary Clinton’s time as the nation’s top diplomat.

“The Hillary emails would be wholly contained within the net that they are casting,” said an Appropriations Committee source. . . .

Alec Gerlach, a spokesman for the State Department, warned a 15 percent cut would be “counterproductive” by making it harder to keep up with requests for documents from the public and members of Congress.

See, that’s why you go after the booze and junkets.