"At 4:50 PM CT, the Vice President will meet with Tennessee state legislators. This meeting will be closed press," the White House said.
The Tennessee House voted to remove Johnson as well but fell one vote short of the needed 66 votes in the 99-seat chamber.
On March 27, a gunman using an assault rifle killed three nine-year-old children and three adults at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville. Three days later, hundreds of protesters entered the Tennessee legislative building demanding that lawmakers pass gun-control legislation.
The Second Amendment to the US Constitution protects the right of Americans to keep and bear arms.