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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… Read more »

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 Mike Johnson (R-LA) demanded the FBI turn over documents about a withdrawn memo that labeled traditional Catholics as possible violent extremists in a Thursday letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray .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,"… Read more »

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… Read more »

U.S. Congressman Mike Johnson delivered criticisms during a Monday St. Landry Parish town hall meeting regarding Biden administration's reaction to border control decisions, information about objects shot down over North America and federal government agencies he accused of becoming politicized. Johnson also told a large crowd that Chinese are apparently testing the ability of Biden… Read more »

Editor's note: The following is an analysis by Greg Hilburn, Louisiana's political reporter for the USA Today network. Louisiana's congressional delegation shrank along with its population in recent decades, but its influence and clout has expanded. In fact, it can be argued that Louisiana has more influence per capita in the 118th Congress than any other state, led by Republican… Read more »

Republican Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson landed a coveted spot on the new select House Weaponization of the Federal Government Committee Tuesday, a high-profile assignment on a panel that the GOP says will scrutinize what it believes is an overreach of government agencies from the FBI to the IRS. Johnson, who represents the 4th Congressional District with Shreveport-Bossier City… Read more »

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced on Tuesday which Republicans will serve on politically charged select subcommittees that will investigate the “weaponization” of the federal government and the origins of COVID-19.  The House voted along party lines earlier this month to create the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government to investigate civil… Read more »

A Supreme Court report this week on the leak of a draft opinion has revitalized an effort from two Louisiana Republicans to criminalize leaking information from the high court, a step some experts say could get messy if it became law. Though the report Thursday from Marshal of the Supreme Court Gail A. Curley said officials did not find out who may have leaked the opinion last year, it… Read more »

Conservatives are reacting to a new report by the U.S. Supreme Court stating that it has been unable to identify the individual who leaked a draft opinion to Politico last year. The report, released by the U.S. Supreme Court Marshal on Thursday, states that an investigative team hasn't been able to "identify a person responsible by a preponderance of the evidence" who leaked the Dobbs… Read more »

As one of their first votes in the new Congress, House Republicans passed a resolution Wednesday condemning political violence against pro-life crisis pregnancy centers, but nearly all Democrats opposed the measure. The House voted 222-209 in favor of a resolution introduced by Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., which "condemns recent attacks of vandalism, violence, and destruction against… Read more »