Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) is stepping down from his committee assignments, he informed House GOP colleagues on Tuesday in a conference meeting.
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Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said that that Santos informed the Conference he would recuse himself from committees “temporarily” until “things get settled.”
The House GOP Steering Committee, the panel of Republican leaders who assign committees, had assigned Santos to the Small Business Committee and the Science, Space, and Technology Committee earlier this month.
Santos’s move comes after he reportedly met with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Monday.
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#BREAKING: Santos steps down from committee assignments https://t.co/G32bSNtCYX pic.twitter.com/u3ZAEyAI0J
— The Hill (@thehill) January 31, 2023
Close to 80 percent of voters in Santos’s district think he should step down: poll https://t.co/SdvwxjfLUg pic.twitter.com/3wXcSyROXO
— The Hill (@thehill) January 31, 2023
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