Media
Latest News
Washington, D.C. – Rep. Mike Johnson (LA-04) released the following statement in response to President Trump’s announcement terminating the United States’ participation in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran, or Iran Deal, and re-imposing sanctions lifted under the deal:
Washington, D.C. – Today, Rep. Mike Johnson (LA-04) hosted an awards reception featuring the 2018 Congressional Art Competition show and winner announcement, recognition of Louisiana’s high school and middle school students of the year, a presentation of the Congressional Award Medal recipients and recognition of the Capitol Hill Challenge participants.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Entergy Louisiana announced rate reductions for customers in Louisiana beginning next month. The company cited $210 million in federal tax reform-related savings as the impetus for the first scheduled set of reductions.
Washington, D.C. – Rep. Mike Johnson (LA-04) released the following statement ahead of Tax Day 2018:
Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, Rep. Mike Johnson (LA-04) spoke on the House floor in favor of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Johnson’s remarks can be found below, and a video of his speech can be found here.
Washington, D.C. – On Wednesday, Rep. Mike Johnson (LA-04) testified before the House Armed Services Committee on the importance of funding missions at Barksdale Air Force Base, home to the Air Force Global Strike Command, and Fort Polk Army Base, home to the Army Joint Readiness Training Center.
Washington, D.C. – On Wednesday, Rep. Mike Johnson’s (LA-04) legislation to stop government encroachment and return land claimed by the federal government back to its rightful, private landowners in Louisiana passed the House Natural Resources Committee with unanimous consent.
Washington, D.C. — Rep. Mike Johnson (LA-04) released the following statement on the passage of H.R.
Washington, D.C. — Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation to train students, school officials, and local law enforcement on how to recognize and respond quickly to warning signs and provide funding for technology to keep schools safe.
Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Department of the Interior and the National Park Service today announced $12.6 million in grants for 51 projects in 24 states that preserve sites and highlight stories related to the African American struggle for equality in the 20th century.
Pages
In The News
President Trump has signed a bill that will boost Barksdale, Fort Polk and Belle Chasse in Louisiana as well as give America's military families pay raises.
The National Defense Authorization Act will give Barksdale's B-52s a modern makeover, protect Fort Polk from the base closure list and and keep Belle Chasse's F-15 fighters on guard for the Gulf Coast.
Louisiana 4th district representative Mike Johnson and Florida’s 13th district representative Charlie Crist have crossed party lines to create the Honor and Civility Caucus in hopes of making politics a little less ugly.
ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB) - Vernon Parish resident Nina Todd still relives the day she was told her daughter had committed suicide last December. Amanda Brailer was 35-years-old and a mother of two.
"When I see a flag, the last flag I saw was on her casket," Todd said.
U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-New Orleans, earned a shout-out from a Republican congressman when Roll Call asked 17 House freshmen to identify their closest colleagues from across the aisle. The kudos came from Rep.
House freshmen who signed a civility pledge say they’ve been able to live up to their agreement to “disagree without being disagreeable” and even strike up some friendships amid a rancorous Congress.
Rep. Mike Johnson, the author of the pledge that the lawmakers signed in January, said his model for civility is former President Ronald Reagan.
In January, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., authored a pledge asking freshman members of Congress to be civil toward each other. Nearly every freshman lawmaker signed it. Almost one year later, Heard on the Hill reporter Alex Gangitano spoke to Johnson, and the members of Congress who signed it, about how their first year went.
I’ll take “Things that should never have been legal in the first place for $500,” Alex.
President Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, is facing a slew of charges, including failing to register as a foreign agent.
Now two GOP lawmakers have a bill they say can address problems with these federal lobbying rules. But one legal expert sees issues with this bill.
President Trump famously promised that, if elected president, he would “drain the swamp” — upending the culture in Washington that favors the well-connected.
It is special counsel Robert S. Mueller III whose work seems to be sending shock waves through the capital, by exposing the lucrative work lobbyists from both parties engage in on behalf of foreign interests.
After several months of imprisonment, a Louisiana native has returned home from Guatemala.
Zachary Wilson, of Keithville, had been detained since March after old hunting ammunition was found in his bag as he was getting ready to board a plane home. He was returning from a mission trip with the Word of God church, but was placed under arrest.