Mike Johnson: “Thomas Massie called me a couple months back and said he…”

“Are you going to take them off the committee? No, I'll tell you what happened. We announced it about an hour ago. So Thomas Massie called me a couple months back and said he wanted to rotate off the Rules Committee. It's a lot of extra work and he does a lot of other things. He wanted to put his focus elsewhere. And I said, that makes sense. Thomas. Lucky for you.” (21:42–21:48)

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