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U.S. Congressman Mike Johnson joined an audience of northwest Louisiana citizens early Tuesday morning to discuss the climate in Washington and answer questions that are concerning Louisiana citizens. 

Louisiana has six congressional districts and Johnson represents District Four, which is located in the northwestern part of the state and is based in Shreveport-Bossier City. Johnson represents over 730,000 Louisiana citizens. 

The Bossier Parish town hall was the first stop on Johnson’s list. Other stops included  Red River Parish at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Allen Parish at 9 a.m. on Wednesday and St. Landry Parish on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. 

“We have been having great turnouts at the town halls, we promised to do at least one in all of our 15 parishes every year,” said Johnson. “We are trying to do more than that and now that the COVID restrictions have lifted people are coming out, as you saw the great interaction and there are a lot of things on people’s minds and hearts and that is what the town hall is about, to address those issues and give them an update on what’s happening in Washington.”

Johnson covered some key points that many citizens across the state are concerned about such as the economy, immigration, and infrastructure. These are three topics not just of interest to all Louisiana citizens but also in northwest Louisiana. The crowd Tuesday morning was specifically interested in immigration and the Texas border. 

Johnson pointed out the holes and danger of the Texas border. He said this is not just a south Texas problem, this is a whole nation problem. 

“Top of people's mind is economy, inflation that is something people are deeply concerned about. People are very concerned about what’s happening at our southern borders, for good reason because it is a threat to us,” Johnson said. 

Johnson was persistent in highlighting the next election cycle in the U.S. Senate. The election will take place in November of 2022 and 14 seats held by Democrats and 20 seats held by Republicans will be up for election. 

This point was highlighted in response to the growing inflation, which is the highest it has been in 13 years after the effect of COVID and with increases in demand but supply chain and labor constraints limiting supply.

“Returning the economy to the pre-COVID greatness that we had, we have a lot of hurdles in our way. Some of them are the policies of the Biden administration, some of it is the fact that people are not willing to come back to work yet, but we hope some of that can be turned around in the next election cycle,” Johnson said. 

Johnson also mentioned future involvement in the Jan. 6th investigation, he said he has been asked by several colleagues to take part in the investigation. 

“I would be willing to serve on that if invited to do so and I think it is an important assignment that needs to be handled very carefully. I was an attorney and litigator on the House Judiciary Committee, so I have the background for it,” said Johnson. “So, if asked to serve I would do that, it would be a huge time commitment and a huge amount of scrutiny which I don’t think anyone looks forward to.”

Johnson closed his town hall with this statement: “It is critically important that we restore the American people's trust in our election system. If we don’t have that in America, then we don’t have much of anything.”