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3 days ago · Mike Johnson is an American lawyer and Republican politician who became the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in October 2023. Johnson, an ardent social conservative, represents the 4th district of Louisiana, encompassing the state’s northwestern and western regions. He was elected.
- “All I ever aspired to be was a fireman,” Johnson once said.
- His father was a firefighter in Shreveport and suffered burns over 80 percent of his body in 1984 in an explosion that killed a fire captain. Johnson was 12.
- “I saw an actual miracle of my father surviving when they said that he shouldn’t,” he has said. “It made me a person of very deep faith.”
- He was elected in 2015 unopposed in a special election to the Louisiana House of Representatives, serving parts of two incomplete terms.
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- His role in promoting 2020 election denial. Johnson is a constitutional lawyer who has used his talents to craft some creative — and controversial — theories.
- His solidly conservative voting record. Johnson's voting record has earned him a lifetime rating of 92% from the American Conservative Union and 90% from Heritage Action.
- His opposition to abortion and LGBTQ rights. Johnson has a spotless history of voting against legal abortion, earning an "A+" rating from Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
- He has Trump's stamp of approval, sort of. Wednesday morning, hours before an expected vote, Trump, the de facto leader of the Republican Party, said he wasn't technically endorsing Johnson but suggesting the House elect him.
May 9, 2024 · Speaker Mike Johnson will keep his job after the House voted to kill a motion to oust him Wednesday evening after a dramatic showdown that took less than an hour.
May 14, 2024 · U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson assailed the hush money case against Donald Trump Tuesday as an illegitimate “sham,” becoming the highest-ranking Republican to show up at court, embrace the former president’s claims of political persecution and attack the U.S. system of justice. It was a remarkable moment in modern American politics: The ...
Oct 26, 2023 · WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Mike Johnson has been elected by his fellow Republicans to serve as speaker of the House of Representatives, after three weeks of turmoil and...
May 9, 2024 · Representative Mike Johnson can now, for better or worse, truly lay claim to being speaker of the whole House, after Democrats saved him from a Republican-led coup on Wednesday in another...
