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The speaker referenced John Boehner's memoir to illustrate a story where Michelle Bachman used the threat of going to Fox News to gain leverage over the Speaker of the House regarding committee assignments.
And what's happened? And I think that the story that best epitomized this was in John Boehner's memoir. He talks about how he's in his office with Michelle Bachman. And she wanted to be on like ways a...
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The speaker referenced John Boehner's memoir to illustrate a story where Michelle Bachman used the threat of going to Fox News to gain leverage over the Speaker of the House regarding committee assignments.
And what's happened? And I think that the story that best epitomized this was in John Boehner's memoir. He talks about how he's in his office with Michelle Bachman. And she wanted to be on like ways and means like the most exclusive committee that she could be on. And Boehner sort of like, well, that's not possible.