Press Releases

WASHINGTON — Speaker Johnson, Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Walberg, Representatives Steube, Miller and Van Duyne, and Riley Gaines — 12-time All-American NCAA Swimmer and ambassador to the Independent Women’s Forum — commend today’s passage of H.R. 28, The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, at a press conference… Read more »

WASHINGTON — Today, Speaker Johnson released the following statement after a judge in New York sentenced President Trump to unconditional release: “This entire case against President Trump has been a politically motivated and contrived witch hunt aimed solely at preventing him from returning to the White House. It was never about the facts, and it should have never been brought… Read more »

WASHINGTON — Today, Speaker Johnson released the following statement after the House passed H.R. 23, the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act. The Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act will impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) or any foreign actor who supports the ICC’s effort to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute protected… Read more »

WASHINGTON — Speaker Johnson released the following statement after he joined Representatives Franklin, Salazar, Diaz-Balart, and Gimenez in a meeting yesterday with Venezuela’s President-elect, Edmundo González Urrutia. “It was an honor to meet with the only legitimate leader of Venezuela, Edmundo González. We had a productive conversation about the need to restore Venezuela’s… Read more »

Washington, DC — Today, Speaker Mike Johnson announced the winners of the 2024 Congressional App Challenge for Louisiana’s Fourth Congressional District. Since 2013, the Congressional App Challenge has encouraged tens of thousands of young Americans to explore STEM, coding, and computer science and has connected members of Congress with emerging… Read more »

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives has successfully thwarted an effort to use taxpayer funds to pay for sex change surgeries in violation of federal law after filing a motion in federal court. Before the House moved to intervene in a case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, Doe v. Austin, the Department of Justice had abandoned its effort to… Read more »

WASHINGTON — This morning, at the weekly House Republican Leadership press conference, Speaker Johnson discussed the House rules package and Republicans’ early work to deliver on the Trump agenda, urged Congressional Democrats to support the Laken Riley Act on the floor today, and discussed the House’s efforts to sanction the illegitimate International Criminal Court. “When we… Read more »

WASHINGTON — Speaker Johnson released the following statement after 159 House Democrats voted against H.R. 29, The Laken Riley Act. “Laken Riley was brutally murdered by an illegal alien that President Biden and the Democrats let into this country with their open border policy. It is hard to believe after countless horrific stories like Laken’s, ANY House Democrats… Read more »

WASHINGTON — Today, Speaker Johnson joined the Carter Family, Vice President Kamala Harris, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, and millions of Americans across the country in honoring the life and legacy of America’s 39th President, Jimmy Carter. President Carter is only the 35th American leader to lie in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol and the 13thPresident… Read more »

WASHINGTON — Today, members of the House and Senate convened in a joint session of Congress to count and certify electoral college votes submitted by state government officials from all 50 U.S. states. After finalizing the count of 312-226, Congress declared Donald J. Trump as the 47th President of the United States.  Speaker Johnson released the following statement… Read more »