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Rep. Mike Johnson said Tuesday it would be “silly” for any congressional committee to re-investigate topics covered by special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. “I think it’s silly for anyone to suggest that any congressional committee here…could find something that Robert Mueller did not in 22 months of investigation, with 25 million dollars,” the Louisiana Republican said on CNN’s “Newsroom.” He ... Read more »

United States Congressman Mike Johnson from Louisiana's 4th Congressional District talks with 101.7 / 710 KEEL's Robert J Wright and Erin McCarty about the Mueller Report released last Friday. The report, which ended an investigation of more than two years, found that there was no collusion between President Donald Trump or the Trump campaign and the Russian government. Johnson tells KEEL listener... Read more »

Rachel Martin talks to GOP Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana about special counsel Mueller's report that President Trump's campaign did not conspire with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: And as Carrie Johnson mentioned, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jerry Nadler, says his committee is going to try to call the Attorney General, William Barr, to testify i... Read more »

Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Mike Johnson (R-La.) released the following statement regarding Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report: “I am pleased to see this investigation has finally come to a close. It has been a source of great division in our country for nearly two years, and we hope the nation can now begin to move forward. I look forward to reviewing the report with my collea... Read more »

Nineteen times House Democrats have blocked a vote on a bill that would protect babies who survive an abortion. “It is a shocking reality that the majority party in the people’s House refuses to allow a vote to protect the lives of newborn babies,” Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., chairman of the Republican Study Committee, said in a statement. This bill simply affords infants born alive during a failed ... Read more »

One Republican leader says he’s not giving up on efforts to force House Democrats to vote on legislation protecting newborn children who survive botched abortions. In a Thursday interview with Blaze Media, Republican Study Committee Chairman Mike Johnson, R-La., said that despite efforts from Democratic leadership to keep the House version of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act off th... Read more »

There’s so much “shock” news in this clickbait age that one day’s “hair-on-fire” story is forgotten the following week. But one story that should not be allowed to disappear down the memory hole is that we now have a Congress that is incapable of going on record as saying that a baby born alive during a botched abortion – an infant human, separate from its mother and fully arrived on Earth – deser... Read more »

Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Mike Johnson (LA-04) released the following statement regarding President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2020: “For decades, Congress has consistently increased federal spending with little regard for the long-term effects. As elected representatives of the American people, all of us have a moral obligation to create a future where our chil... Read more »

Republican leaders in the House of Representatives gathered outside the Capitol Building on Wednesday to announce the party’s strategy to bring anti-infanticide legislation to the floor after House Democrats rejected a vote 17 times. “There are some issues you really can’t believe that you have to have a debate about and this is certainly one of those,” GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney told the cro... Read more »

Minden’s Dr. John C. Fleming has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for the Economic Development Administration. The EDA’s mission is to provide matching grants to communities across the fifty states and U.S. possessions to promote economic development and job creation in distressed areas and communities harmed by natural disasters. In a show of bipartisan ... Read more »