(CNN) Hillary Clinton opened her speech before the Democratic Women's Leadership Forum with a dry jab at the House Republicans who grilled her for 11 hours Thursday.

"As some of you may know, I had a pretty long day yesterday," she said. "I finally got to answer questions, something I have been pushing for literally a year, and I am just grateful I recovered my voice which I lost a little bit."

Clinton spoke to a room packed with Democratic women Friday morning and received the loudest and longest sustained applause of the Democratic candidates who addressed the group Friday.

Clinton kept her cool throughout the testimony before the House Benghazi panel Thursday. But she unloaded on Republicans the following morning, noting that they were also putting together a panel to investigate the Planned Parenthood videos.

"I think we all know by now that's code for a partisan witch hunt. Haven't we seen enough of that yet?" she said.

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