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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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… Read more »

Louisiana GOP U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson, who met with President Donald Trump this week at the White House, said Democrats have "weaponized the oversight authority of Congress" in an effort to impeach the president. Johnson, R-Benton, is a member of the Democratic-controlled House Judiciary Committee that opened a wide-ranging investigation into the president this week, requesting… Read more »

The Daily Signal House Republicans’ use of a century-old legislative procedure that helps the minority party alter or oppose measures advanced by the majority has exposed significant divisions among Democrats. Now some House Democrats want to do away with the procedure, called a motion to recommit. It allows a lawmaker in the minority to move that a bill be sent back to a committee for… Read more »

 Today, Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Task Force Chairmen Jim Banks (R-Ind.), Andy Barr (R-Ky.), Greg Gianforte (R-Mont.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Paul Mitchell (R-Mich.) and Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office to discuss pertinent issues before the Congress and the conservative agenda moving… Read more »

Rep. Mike Johnson, the new chairman of the Republican Study Committee, says despite the GOP falling into the minority in the House, conservatives have a chance to play a huge role in shaping debates. “There’s a perception out there that when your party goes into the minority, you downshift and wander in the wilderness for two years. We’re doing exactly the… Read more »