Republicans chose Rep. Mike Johnson as their latest nominee for House speaker desperate to unite their fractious majority and end the chaos
Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., stands to vote for himself for speaker, as House Republicans try to elect a speaker, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. Rep. Mike Johnson, a relatively unknown conservative lawmaker from Louisiana, was unanimously elected the House Speaker on Wednesday after uniting the Republican conference after three weeks of turmoil and inter-party fights that paralyzed the House.late Tuesday night, the second speaker-designate in the same day after Rep.
Johnson was also backed by the previous designates who ultimately withdrew, Reps. Jim Jordan, Steve Scalise and Emmer. He has also received the endorsement of the former president. The 51-year-old Johnson is a lawyer in his fourth term in the House who has served on Trump's impeachment defense team and played a central role in getting House Republicans to sign a legal brief supporting a lawsuit to overturn the 2020 election results.
At the forefront of those issues is how to avoid a government shutdown, which will start on Nov. 17 without another stopgap or an unlikely scenario of getting the 12 appropriations bills that fund the government passed, agreed to by the Democratic-controlled Senate and signed by President Joe Biden.
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