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 Ryan said on Sunday he has been trying to come up with ways to
remove the smell of cigarettes from the House speaker's office that
he took over on Thursday after he replaced the retiring John
Boehner, a heavy smoker.
Asked if he is going to be able to get the smell of smoke out of the
place, the fitness-conscious congressman said, "That's a really good
question. And we've been talking about that."
"They have these ozone machines, apparently, that you can detoxify
the environment. But I'm going to have to work on the carpeting in
here," Ryan told the NBC program "Meet the Press."
"You know, if you ever go to like a hotel room or get a rental car
that's been smoked in? That's what this smells like," Ryan added.
 To complicate things, Ryan does not have a residence in Washington
and sleeps in his office.
"I'm just a normal guy," Ryan told CNN's "State of the Union"
program.
CNN interviewer Dana Bash, with a laugh, then told him, "Yes, but
normal guys don't sleep in their offices."
Ryan said that he lives in Janesville, Wisconsin, and commutes back
and forth to Washington every week.
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"I just work here. I don't live here. So I get up very early in the
morning. I work out. I work until about 11:30 at night. I go to bed.
And I do the same thing the next day," Ryan said.
"It actually makes me more efficient. I can actually get more work
done by sleeping on a cot in my office. I have been doing it for at
least a decade, and I'm going to keep doing it."
(Reporting by Will Dunham; Editing by Andrew Hay)
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