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Congressman Johnson Congratulates 2023 United States Service Academy Appointees

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BOSSIER CITY, LA — Today, United States Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04) congratulated Abigail Anderson, Cole Weir, Warren Graves, Field Baber, and Christopher Bernard for their appointments to United States Service Academies. Congressman Johnson nominated the students on their merits, based on recommendations from a volunteer panel of active and retired military officers. •…

'Death by a thousand cuts': Louisiana Republican blasts economic damage from 'administrative' state

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Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., tore into "nameless, faceless bureaucrats" in the "administrative state" he says are circumventing Congress by making sweeping federal rules without congressional authority that burdens taxpayers and ultimately drove the country into trillions of dollars in debt. In a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday discussing the Regulations from the Executive In…

Rep. Johnson to Newsmax: Biden Wants to Turn Migrants Into Dem Voters

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Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., told Newsmax Tuesday that the Biden administration is turning a blind eye to the crisis at the southern border because it wants to turn the migrants crossing the border into Democrat voters. “It's really shocking for people to hear, but many of our Democrat colleagues insist that there is no problem at the border,” Johnson said during an appearance on…

Op-Ed: It’s time for President Biden to “put people over politics” on debt ceiling talks

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President Biden is playing the most dangerous game. America’s national debt has eclipsed $31.7 trillion, Social Security and Medicare are on a path to insolvency, and employers are being forced to reduce their workforces. This trajectory is simply unsustainable and its inevitable end is calamitous. Net interest on our national debt will reach $10.5 trillion in less than a decade –…

FBI sought to develop sources in Catholic churches to combat domestic terrorism, docs show

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The FBI recently sought to develop sources inside Christian churches and Catholic dioceses as part of an effort to combat domestic terrorism, according to internal documents released by House Judiciary Committee on Monday. The internal documents — obtained last month by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., who are also members of the…

EXCLUSIVE: House Committee on the Weaponization of Government DEMANDS answers on FBI targeting Catholics

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The House Committee on the Weaponization of Government is investigating the FBI's recent targeting of Catholics, as was evidenced by a leaked bulletin from the Richmond office. That memo, which stated that Catholics who prefer Latin Mass who are "Radical-Traditionalist Catholics," painted them as having an "adherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and white supremacist…

Johnson Introduces Legislation to Permanently Classify Illicit Fentanyl as Schedule I Narcotic

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The CEASE Overdose Act removes the need for Congress to reauthorize illicit fentanyl’s classification as a deadly substance every couple of months WASHINGTON, March 14, 2023 — United States Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04) today reintroduced the CEASE Overdose Act to permanently classify illicit fentanyl as a Schedule I narcotic under the Controlled Substances Act. “Fentanyl…

Jim Jordan and Mike Johnson demand FBI turn over documents related to anti-Catholic memo

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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) demanded the FBI turn over documents about a withdrawn memo that labeled traditional Catholics as possible violent extremists in a Thursday letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray . The memo originated in the FBI's Richmond field office and said that communities of "radical traditionalist Catholics,"…

'It's out of Control': Congressman Mike Johnson Wants to Combat the Weaponization of the DOJ

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Dating all the way back to the IRS targeting scandal of the Obama era, we’ve seen federal agencies used to go after conservatives and conservative groups that did not comply with the ideology of the powers that be. However, with the Biden administration, we’ve watched the Department of Justice become weaponized against U.S. citizens. It’s not just conservatives. It’s any parent who…