diff --git a/koji/__init__.py b/koji/__init__.py
index f5f3320d..22c5151e 100644
--- a/koji/__init__.py
+++ b/koji/__init__.py
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ import six.moves.http_client
 import six.moves.urllib
 from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter
 from requests.packages.urllib3.util.retry import Retry
-from requests.exceptions import RequestException
 from six.moves import range, zip
 
 from koji.xmlrpcplus import Fault, dumps, getparser, loads, xmlrpc_client
@@ -2756,16 +2755,6 @@ class ClientSession(object):
                     # (depending on the python version, these may or may not be subclasses of
                     # Exception)
                     raise
-                except RequestException as e:
-                    _err_res = e.response
-                    _err_req = e.request
-                    if _err_res:
-                        _values = (_err_res.status_code, _err_res.text, str(_err_res))
-                        self.logger.error('Response error: %s::%s::%s' % _values)
-                    else:
-                        _values = (_err_req.method, _err_req.url, str(_err_req))
-                        self.logger.error('Request error: %s::%s::%s' % _values)
-                    raise
                 except Exception as e:
                     tb_str = ''.join(traceback.format_exception(*sys.exc_info()))
                     self.new_session()