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Nicole Malliotakis: “When we were going through the thousand rounds of electing a…”

Featuring: Nicole Malliotakis, Republican | U.S. House New York, 11th Congressional District

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Common Ground: Ryan Nobles moderates a conversation with Reps. Dingell and Malliotakis

Published | Video Starts at 14:29

Would that be a positive thing? Absolutely. Why not? I mean, who could be against that? They keep you calm. We need more people. We need therapy. We definitely need pet therapy. And When we were going through the thousand rounds of electing a speaker last year, after the sudden departure of Kevin McCarthy, it got very stressful and tense in that Republican conference room. and I would bring in Luna, and it was like it was pet therapy. It really brought the temperature down. But, yeah, look, I'm an animal lover. She's an animal lover. (14:29–14:42)

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Asserts that there were many rounds of voting for a new speaker after Kevin McCarthy's departure.

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