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After Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) was elected Speaker of the House on Wednesday, Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries presented him with the gavel but not before taking a few shots at Johnson first. ... For years, Jeffries has accused Donald Trump of stealing the 2016 election and being an illegitimate president. “With [the] legitimacy of Trump’s presidential election in doubt, his lifetime appt to Supreme Court can wait,” Jeffries tweeted in March 2017 in reference to the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Nearly a year later, he claimed without evidence that “The more we learn about [the] 2016...

Mr. Speaker, release the J6 footageIt’s time for the House Republicans to keep their promise.One of the first things I did after becoming editor in chief of Blaze Media was make Steve Baker a contributor. This is because for the last two years, Steve has been performing the rarest job in America: carefully investigating the truth about the events of January 6, 2021. When it comes to the protest more than two years ago at the United States Capitol, instead of speaking truth to power, most media outlets are speaking lies to the powerless on the behalf of the powerful....

The most dangerous movement in American politics today is not Trumpism. It is Christofascism. With the election of Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, the organized effort to impose the extreme religious views of a minority of Americans on the entire country, at the expense of many of our most basic freedoms, took a disturbing step forward.Despite Speaker Johnson’s claims of being a constitutional “originalist,” via his elevation by a unanimous vote of his Republican colleagues he has moved America closer to having precisely the kind of government America’s founders most feared.Thomas Jefferson said...

Earlier today, I wrote an article expressing “cautious optimism” on the election of the new Republican Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. Johnson, a Southern Baptist, is being heralded by many conservatives as “the most conservative” speaker in U.S. History. Upon further research, it appears the caution in that “cautious optimism” is more than warranted. Here’s more of what we found. Mike Johnson served as a trustee for the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) for eight years, from 2004 to 2012​. Over the years, the ERLC has been instrumental in killing legislation that...

WELCOME BACK. 0:04 I THINK WE ARE GOING TO JUMP 0:06 BACK NOW TO THE HOUSE WHERE OUR 0:08 NEW HOUSE SPEAKER IS SPEAKING. 0:23 >> I WANT TO EXPRESS MY GREAT 0:26 THINGS FOR OUR SPEAKER, KEVIN 0:28 CLARK -- KEVIN McCARTHY. [ 0:37 APPLAUSE ] KEVIN HAS DEDICATED 0:42 OVER TWO DECADES OF HIS LIFE TO 0:44 SELFLESS PUBLIC SERVICE, 16 OF 0:46 THOSE YEARS IN THIS HOUSE AND 0:49 YOU WOULD BE HARD-PRESSED TO 0:50 FIND ANYBODY WHO LOVES THIS 0:54 INSTITUTION MORE OR HAS 0:55 CONTRIBUTED MORE TO IT. 0:57 HE IS THE REASON WE ARE...

Mike Johnson, who was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, said the FBI used Twitter to censor American speech until Elon Musk took over. “Twitter was basically an FBI subsidiary before @elonmusk took it over,” Mike Johnson said. “The Twitter files should be a matter of bipartisan concern for every member of Congress and every American citizen because it is a bedrock principle of our Constitution that the government does not get to decide what speech is acceptable or true.” Watch VIDEO AT LINK............... On Wednesday, the conservative Louisiana lawmaker won with 220 votes in the lower...

[snip] Willie Geist, citing an unnamed source, described Johnson as "Jim Jordan with a jacket and a better haircut."Charlie Sykes one-upped Willie in the Johnson-trashing stakes, approvingly quoting Never Trumper and ex-GOP congressman Adam Kinzinger kin-zinging Johnson as "Jim Jordan in drag."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

When I opened the news this morning, I was made completely aware that Mike Johnson was NOT a very important topic

Click on the link for the full tweet from Representative Mike Johnson.

Newly-elected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is already about to trigger much wailing and gnashing of teeth from progressives in Congress. The lawmaker is wasting no time in setting the legislative agenda for the lower chamber, but his first move is likely to send the anti-Israel faction of Congress into a tizzy.On Wednesday, after taking the gavel, Johnson vowed to bring forth a bill supporting Israel while also condemning Hamas for starting the current war in the Middle East. After assuring the American public that House Republicans are “ready to get to work again” to solve the problems facing the...

Hey folks, The Swamp took a major hit today in the HOR. this is a great outcome today.

An "active shooter" situation in Lewiston, Maine...Fox News reporting at least 22 dead and dozens wounded at three locations... The US House led by newly elected speaker Mike Johnson approving a resolution in support of Israel... An Iranian backed militia group says that a US base in northeastern Syria was attacked by rockets... Russian Aerospace Forces striking two jihadist positions in Syria... The Russian military in Syria also saying that US-led coalition warplanes and drones violated Syrian airspace 15 times today... Democrat Congressman Jamaal Bowman of New York facing a misdemeanor criminal charge for pulling a fire alarm at the...

The recent election of Mike Johnson as speaker of the House has struck terror in the heart of the uniparty, with neoconservatives and Democrats fearing that their reckless Ukraine spending may finally be put to an end.President Biden is currently exploiting the conflict in Israel and Palestine to secure more funding for Ukraine in a joint package for Israel and Ukraine aid. However, only a small portion of the $100 billion the president is requesting would go to Israel, with the majority — $61.4 billion — going to Ukraine.With Johnson now speaker and leading the House, Biden’s Ukraine funding request...

House Republican Vice Chair Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) became the chamber’s Speaker on Wednesday, three weeks after Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted.Johnson became his conference’s fourth Speaker nominee on Tuesday, and he takes over in the midst of multiple international crises, most notably in Israel, Gaza and Ukraine. There has been a split in the House GOP over aid to Ukraine as they face a war against Russia, making the passage of some recent bills a tough hill to climb in the lower chamber. President Biden announced the sending of a budget request to Congress requesting aid for both Israel...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Smoke rose from the Capitol building early this afternoon, indicating that Congress had resumed shoveling taxpayer dollars into a giant bonfire. "They're back at it," said local resident Milton Dennings, watching the cloud of smoke rise. "Well. All good things must come to an end." After three weeks of Congress being hamstrung by having no Speaker of the House, the glowing embers of the last trillion dollars set on fire had at last begun to fade. "So, if we can't light money on fire, what exactly are we doing here?" asked Representative Tom Emmer, twiddling his thumbs....

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) the Republican Conference Chair, delivered a blistering nomination speech endorsing Mike Johnson for US House Speaker before the vote this morning. Elise Stefanik: We convene this esteemed body today at a time of great crisis across America, a time of unprecedented challenges in this hallowed chamber, and a time when our most precious ally, Israel’s very existence, is under attack from forces of evil. Yesterday, our dear colleague, our former conference chair, our Chair of Energy and Commerce, kathy McMorris Rogers, nominated Mike Johnson in our conference, and she put it best, and I want to...

OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska Congressman Don Bacon has been very vocal about his opinions on the nominees for House Speaker, but he finally found a candidate that he would support. Advertisement The House Republicans picked a fourth nominee for speaker on Tuesday. The late-night decision comes after the third nominee dropped out before Congress could even take a full vote. On Tuesday, the house GOP conference whittled five names down to one. It's the person who came in second this morning Louisiana's Mike Johnson. The Republican is a lawyer who specializes in constitutional issues. Congressman Bacon told KETV NewsWatch 7...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans chose Rep. Mike Johnson as their latest nominee for House speaker late Tuesday, hours after an earlier pick, Rep. Tom Emmer, abruptly withdrew in the face of opposition from Donald Trump and hardline GOP lawmakers. Johnson of Louisiana, a lower-ranked member of the House GOP leadership team, becomes the fourth Republican nominee after Emmer and the others fell short in what has become an almost absurd cycle of political infighting since Kevin McCarthy's ouster as GOP factions jockey for power. Refusing to unify, far-right members won’t accept a more traditional speaker and moderate conservatives don’t want...

Representative Mike Johnson (R-LA 4th District) has been named the GOP Speaker-Designate. The announcement came after a closed-door meeting among House Republicans, where Johnson emerged as the consensus candidate. .... Snip.... During the final round, Johnson reportedly received 128 votes, with Rep. Byron Donalds getting 29. He is now the fourth Speaker Designate for the House.