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Mike Johnson
James Michael Johnson is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 56th speaker of the United States House of Representatives since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he is in his fifth House term, having represented Louisiana's 4th congressional district since 2017. His district is based in Shreveport and includes much of the state's northwestern portion.
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culture · American lawyer and politician (born 1972) · radio personality · lawyer · journalist · politician · podcaster · also Mike Johnson, James Michael Johnson, Michael Johnson, Speaker Johnson, Speaker Mike Johnson, Speaker Michael Johnson
Born 30 January 1972 · Q19880665
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2026· 22 entries
“exhaust every available legal remedy to restore Americans”
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“We should put everything out there and let the people decide”
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The Economic Times: 'Democrat party is kind of a rudderless ship': Mike Johnson destroys Dems in brutal midterm warning
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Published video “Speaker Johnson Joins Fox News Saturday in America with Kayleigh McEnany”.
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The Guardian: Crystal Palace and Everton seal Brennan Johnson-Dwight McNeil swap deal
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Published video “Speaker Johnson, Secretary Bessent, and Rep. Ciscomani Deliver Remarks with Arizona Manufacturers”.
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Published video “Speaker Johnson Delivers Remarks After House Republicans' "Consequential Week"”.
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Published video “Speaker Johnson Delivers Remarks with UK Speaker Hoyle”.
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Published video “Speaker Johnson Delivers Remarks at House GOP Press Conference”.
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Published video “Speaker Johnson Delivers Remarks at the FAMiLY Leaders Summit”.
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Published video “Speaker Johnson Joins the Moon Griffon Show”.
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Published video “Speaker Johnson and Vice President JD Vance Address Press on SAVE and Protect America Act”.
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Snopes rated the claim “Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said in July 2026, "Every dollar we spend on senior citizens could have gone somewhere else."” Incorrect Attribution.
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Published video “Speaker Johnson Joins American Ground Radio”.
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The Guardian: Mike Johnson attempts to defend Trump after president says ‘I love the inflation’ – as it happened
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Snopes rated the claim “U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said that salaries for members of Congress have been frozen since 2009, and added, “we should at least let them engage in some stock trading so they can continue to, you know, take care of their family.”” Correct Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., refused to meet with more than 60 veterans demanding the end of Iran war and Capitol police zip-tied and arrested them on April 20, 2026.” Mixture.
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The Guardian: Jimmy Kimmel on Mike Johnson’s new award for Trump: ‘You can almost feel his spine exiting his body’
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Snopes rated the claim “Footage recirculating online in March 2026 authentically shows House Speaker Mike Johnson being caught on a "hot mic" saying it would be "huge" for the Republican Party if the SAVE America Act decreased voter turnout to between 12 and 18%.” Mostly False.
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The Guardian: Mike Johnson refuses to condemn anti-Muslim comments by Republican lawmakers
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The Guardian: How Badenoch’s meeting with Mike Johnson led to Trump’s Chagos deal rant
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2025· 10 entries
Snopes rated the claim “In early November 2025, a federal judge ordered Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, a Republican, to swear-in Democratic Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva without further delay.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “In July 2025, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson voted in favor of a bill with a projected $186 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides federal food benefits to roughly 42 million Americans.” True.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “MSNBC's Rachel Maddow revealed Speaker Mike Johnson's wife's secret LLC.” Never Said.
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Snopes rated the claim “U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said, "The Democrats are required to open the government. They keep saying Republicans are in charge of the government. We aren’t. Not in the Senate. Sixty votes control the Senate, not a bare majority."” Correct Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “MSNBC host Rachel Maddow revealed Speaker of the House Mike Johnson's wife's ties to a hidden LLC suspiciously linked to multimillion-dollar transactions on live television.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, pushed to repeal the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.” Originated as Satire.
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Snopes rated the claim “Mike Johnson, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said "the naked bicyclers in Portland" were "the most threatening thing I've seen yet" in regard to protests against the deployment of federal troops in Portland, Oregon.” Correct Attribution.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Mike Johnson, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, was dean of a law school named after Judge Paul Pressler who was later accused of sexual abuse, but the school never officially opened.” True.
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The opening day of the 119th Congress, Johnson was reelected speaker on the first ballot
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“mountains of Judea and Samaria”
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2024· 9 entries
Greene (who had strongly opposed Johnson's resolve to provide Ukraine with further aid) introduced a motion to vacate Johnson's speakership on the floor, forcing a vote on it within two legislative days
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Clarified that he does not support federal legislation to protect legal access to IVF, saying he believes it is a state issue
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The House passed a $459 billion "minibus" spending package containing six of the twelve appropriations bills
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The House impeached Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas by a 214–213 vote
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Congressional appropriators reached an agreement on the topline spending levels for 2024 that was not substantially different from the deal McCarthy negotiated during his tenure as speaker
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Johnson won reelection with 262,821 votes (86%) to fellow Republican Joshua Morott's 43,427 (14%) votes
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Johnson opposed a new warrant requirement for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
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After public backlash to an Alabama Supreme Court decision ruling that embryos are children under Alabama state law, meaning fertility clinics were liable for the loss of embryos as if they were children, Johnson announc
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“All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings—such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms—are reserved for individuals of that biological sex. It is important to note that each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol.”
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2023· 9 entries
The House passed a Johnson-supported bill to give Israel $14
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Johnson met with President Joe Biden for the first time as speaker before attending a bipartisan briefing held at the White House on the administration's proposed funding requests for aid to Ukraine and Israel
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After Kevin McCarthy was ousted as speaker of the House, Johnson was elected to replace him, the first Louisianan to hold the post
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Representative Matt Gaetz floated Johnson's name as a potential replacement
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Johnson co-sponsored legislation declaring that human life and personhood begin at conception with no exception for in-vitro fertilization treatments involving embryos or embryonic stem-cell research
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Johnson became chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government
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“is a remarkable thing and something we ought to preserve and protect”
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Andrew Kaczynski of CNN wrote that Johnson "has a history of harsh anti-gay language from his time as an attorney for a socially conservative legal group in the mid-2000s"
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Career landmark: Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (2023).
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2022· 7 entries
“I am a rule-of-law guy. I made a career defending the rule of law. I respect the rule of law. When the Supreme Court issued the Obergefell opinion, that became the law of the land, OK.”
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“the Word of God is, of course, the ultimate source of all truth”
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Johnson won reelection unopposed
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“s book The Revivalist Manifesto. The book uses homophobic slurs to refer to Pete Buttigieg and implicitly endorses the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy theory. Johnson promoted the book on his podcast, saying,”
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Johnson introduced the Stop the Sexualization of Children Act, which would prohibit federally funded institutions, including public schools and libraries, from mentioning sexual orientation or gender identity
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Johnson wrote the foreword to Louisiana politics blogger Scott McKay's book The Revivalist Manifesto
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“The Speaker had never read the passages highlighted in the CNN story, which he strongly disagrees with. He wrote the foreword as a favor to a friend, supportive of the general theme of the book but not as an endorsement of all the opinions expressed.”
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2021· 3 entries
Johnson and all seven other Republican House leaders in the 117th Congress voted against establishing a national commission to investigate the January 6 United States Capitol attack
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Johnson again opposed the bill
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Career landmark: United States representative (2021–2023).
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2020· 5 entries
Johnson said: "You know the allegations about these voting machines, some of them being rigged with this software by Dominion, there's a lot of merit to that
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“You know the allegations about these voting machines, some of them being rigged with this software by Dominion, there”
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Johnson won a third House term with 185,265 votes (60%) to Democratic nominee Kenny Houston's 78,157 votes (25%)
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Johnson co-wrote a national security report with a section on China trade issues as the leader of the Republican Study Committee
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Campaign: 2020 presidential election.
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2019· 5 entries
As chair of the Republican Study Committee, Johnson spearheaded an effort to replace the ACA
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Career landmark: United States representative (2019–2021).
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During Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, Johnson defended Trump, saying that Trump had "cooperated fully" with the investigation and "done nothing wrong"
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Johnson opposed the Raise the Wage Act, which would have raised the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, calling it "job-crushing legislation"
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During the first impeachment of Donald Trump, Johnson defended Trump and told White House officials to ignore congressional subpoenas as "legitimate executive privilege in legal immunity"
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2018· 3 entries
Johnson said that entitlement reform is his "number one priority", adding that reforms to entitlement programs have to "happen yesterday" to maintain their long-term solvency
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Johnson won a second House term, defeating Democratic nominee Ryan Trundle, 139,307 votes (64%) to 72,923 votes (34%)
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Johnson became an adjunct professor teaching online courses at Liberty University's Helms School of Government
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2017· 2 entries
Career landmark: United States representative (2017–2019).
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Johnson said that he believed that Earth's climate was changing, but questioned the scientific consensus that humans cause climate change
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2016· 5 entries
Johnson announced his candidacy for the 4th congressional district seat, which had been held for eight years by John Fleming
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Johnson was a strong proponent of a movement, outlined in Article V of the Constitution, to amend the United States Constitution at a national convention called for that purpose
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Johnson delivered a sermon that called the teaching of evolution one of the causes of mass shootings: "People say, 'How can a young person go into their schoolhouse and open fire on their classmates
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Johnson opposed the expansion of medical cannabis in Louisiana, arguing that cannabis can worsen some conditions, specifically epilepsy, quoting the American Epilepsy Society's studies that it can cause "severe dystonic
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“The court has affirmed a longstanding principle that the Constitution does not permit a state to show hostility towards religion. The First Amendment does not allow Christian organizations to be treated like second-class citizens merely because of what they believe.”
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2015· 8 entries
The House Civil Law and Procedure Committee voted 10–2 to table the bill, effectively ending its chances to become law
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Johnson blamed abortions and the "breakup [of] the nuclear family" for school shootings, saying, "when you tell a generation of people that life has no value, no meaning, that it's expendable, then you do wind up with sc
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Johnson founded Freedom Guard, a nonprofit law firm that engaged in religious liberty litigation
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“Donald Trump ... lacks the character and the moral center we desperately need again in the White House”
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In a 2015 German television story about the purity movement, Johnson and his then 13-year-old daughter Hannah were featured attending a purity ball.
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Career landmark: member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (2015–2017).
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Johnson wrote on Facebook that "Donald Trump
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And 2016, he led an anti-abortion "Life March" in Shreveport-Bossier City
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2005· 2 entries
Johnson campaigned against GLSEN's annual anti-bullying Day of Silence, telling NBC News: "that's cloaking their real message—that homosexuality is good for society"
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Johnson appeared on ABC's Good Morning America to promote covenant marriages, saying, "I'm a big proponent of marriage and fidelity and all the things that go with it"
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2004· 1 entry
Defended Louisiana Amendment 1, which defined marriage as between one man and one woman within the Louisiana Constitution, against legal challenges
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2003· 2 entries
“States have many legitimate grounds to proscribe same-sex deviate sexual intercourse.”
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“Homosexuals do not meet the criteria for a suspect class under the equal protection clause because they are neither disadvantaged nor identified on the basis of immutable characteristics, as all are capable of changing their abnormal lifestyles.”
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1998· 2 entries
Johnson graduated from Louisiana State's Paul M
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Studied at Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Juris Doctor (1998).
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1995· 2 entries
Earned a Bachelor of Science in business administration from Louisiana State University, becoming a first-generation college graduate
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Studied at Louisiana State University, Bachelor of Science (1995).
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1990· 1 entry
Studied at Captain Shreve High School (1990).
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1984· 1 entry
Pat was severely injured in a Shreveport fire that killed a fellow firefighter
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1972· 1 entry
Born 1972-01-30.
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