WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy said the workload was too much.
That was the reason the South Carolina Republican gave House Speaker Paul Ryan when he resigned his position from the House Ethics Committee.
Gowdy represents the 4th District of South Carolina, which includes Greenville and Spartanburg Counties. He has been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 2011.
Gowdy was recently named the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. He also is a member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and Judiciary Committee.
“When I became Chairperson of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform I knew I would not be able to keep all other committee assignments to include Judiciary, Intelligence, and Ethics. Four committee assignments, including a Chairmanship, is a challenging workload,” Gowdy wrote in his letter to Ryan.
Gowdy made his name grilling Hillary Clinton over the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. Gowdy worked as a federal prosecutor from 1994 to 2000 in South Carolina and served as a district attorney before entering Congress in 2011.