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A leap over faith by House Dems

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If you thought House Democrats would slow down after six months of LGBT-open borders-infanticide socialism, think again. Based on Tuesday's hearing, the new majority is just warming up. Apparently, it's not enough to try to strip away people's privacy, speech, liberty, and dignity. Now, the Left is coming for the biggest prize of all: our freedom to believe. Common ground used to be a…

Congressman Johnson seeks to end government overregulation with reintroduction of Sea Act

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 U.S. Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04) reintroduced the Streamlining Environmental Approvals Act (SEA Act) to increase efficiency in the lengthy permit approval processes that have caused setbacks and delays for those working to preserve America’s rapidly deteriorating coastline, interrupted U.S. Naval operations and deterred offshore oil and gas…

Rep. Mike Johnson highlights Fort Polk, Barksdale on house floor

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(Office of Mike Johnson) - On Friday, two amendments introduced by U.S. Representative Mike Johnson urging the military to prioritize critical infrastructure projects like those as Fort Polk Joint Readiness Training Center and Barksdale Air Force Base unanimously passed the House. Johnson took to the House floor to highlight the importance of both Fort Polk and Barksdale. Johnson…

Johnson, Collins reintroduce sweeping immigration abuse laws

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 U.S. Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04) and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Doug Collins (GA-27) reintroduced the Asylum Reform and Border Protection Act (H.R. 3360) to address and counter widespread abuse of our existing immigration laws. The bill makes a number of necessary improvements to prevent fraud and abuse in the asylum system and to ensure it is…

Congressmen Johnson, Abraham discuss immigration, infrastructure at Leesville City Hall

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LEESVILLE, La. (KALB) - It was a full house at Leesville City Hall where residents got to submit their concerns and questions at a joint town meeting with Congressmen Mike Johnson and Ralph Abraham. Some of the big talkers included division on Capitol Hill, immigration, and Louisiana infrastructure. When asked why Louisiana seems to consistently rank last in various national polls,…

Minden Airport to receive $108k for runway rehab

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The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced $1 million in grants will be awarded to the Louisiana 4th Congressional District, including the City of Minden, for airport improvements and updates. The Minden Airport will receive $108,000 for runway rehabilitation. This grant funds the design phase to rehabilitate 5,004 feet of Runway 1/19 to maintain the structural integrity of the…

Congressman Johnson rebuffs Green New Deal with response resolution

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 U.S. Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04) introduced a resolution to expose the Socialist policies of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal and to prove that fully implementing the proposal is clearly impossible. Johnson’s resolution highlights the exorbitant costs of the plan, the harm it would actually cause to the environment, the…

House GOP resolution blasts 'Green New Deal' as violating nation's 'bedrock principles'

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal is a "thinly veiled" attempt to push policies that would create a socialist society, a resolution pushed by the Republican Study Committee said on Wednesday. Decrying the millions of deaths under socialist regimes, the resolution stated that the plan, so strongly supported by Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., would violate…

House celebrates 100th anniversary of action on womens right to vote

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Lawmakers took to the floor of the House of Representatives on Tuesday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of action on the constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote. The House passed what would become the 19th Amendment to the Constitution by a vote of 304-90 on May 21, 1919. The amendment was ratified by the required three-fourths of the states and became the…

Johnson reintroduces Protection Against Child Exploitation Act

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 U.S. Representative Mike Johnson (LA-04) reintroduced the Protecting Against Child Exploitation Act (PACE Act) to close a court-created loophole that allows child predators to escape punishment on a technicality.  “We have a moral obligation to protect all children from sexual predators and to eliminate any legal technicality that would allow a predator to…