Rep. Patrick McHenry: "I’m going back to chair a [committee] hearing"
Rep. Patrick McHenry (4-10-2024)
Who?
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) — Chair, House Financial Services Committee*
*served as acting-speaker — technically speaker pro tempore — of the US House of Representatives after 8 Republicans ousted former Speaker Kevin McCarthy
LISTEN: Laslo & McHenry
Ask a Pol asks:
Wanna talk crypto?
Key McHenry:
McHenry smiles but says nothing.
“No comments,” Rep. Patrick McHenry tells reporters as he rushes out of a contentious GOP Conference meeting on his way to chair a Financial Services Committee hearing.
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Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Patrick McHenry
SCENE: McHenry’s just left a closed-door Republican Conference meeting where lawmakers were at each other’s throats over what to do about FISA — ie warrantless wiretapping — and Ukraine aid.
Hanging over it all was Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) motion to vacate Speaker Mike Johnson, just as eight Republicans did last fall to former Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Reporter #1 asks question off mic.
Patrick McHenry: “No comments.”
Reporter #1: “No comments?”
PM: “Nope.”
Reporter #1: “You want the speaker’s job again?”
McHenry keeps walking and says nothing.
Reporter #2: “Can I just have a second?”
PM: “Nope.”
Reporter #2: “Do you think FISA’s coming up today on the floor?”
PM: “I’m going back to chair a hearing at the Financial Services Committee.”
Matt Laslo: “Wanna talk crypto?”
McHenry smiles but says nothing.
Reporter #3: “Mr. McHenry, can I ask you a HUD [Department of Housing and Urban Development] question?”
McHenry says nothing and enters elevator.
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