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Showing posts with label Speaker of the House. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Speaker of the House. Show all posts
Sunday, January 5, 2025
Saturday, January 4, 2025
Democrats rage as Mike Johnson restricts their ability to oust him
"This makes it clear that they have no intention of working together to find common ground," Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the House Rules Committee, said of the rules change in a statement…
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/02/mike-johnson-democrats-motion-to-vacate-rules
Mike Johnson addresses the 119th Congress following speaker vote
Caution: Speaker Johnson recites a prayer he asserts was spoken by Thomas Jefferson. Speaker Johnson is inclined to repeat tales like this told by David Barton, a pseudo-historian whose versions of history are so replete with falsehoods, his Christian book publisher had to recall his books off shelves in bookstores. (For more on David Barton, search "Telling Jefferson Lies" in your favorite search engine or podcast provider.)
Thursday, January 2, 2025
Republican support wavers for Mike Johnson’s re-election as House speaker
A senior Texas Republican congressman has said that the House speaker, Mike Johnson, does not yet have the votes to be re-elected to the speakership ahead of an election to be held later this week...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Republican congressman says party should drop ‘food fight’ over leadership
The Democratic congressman Ro Khanna of California, who is seeking common ground with the so-called "department of government efficiency" that Trump wants Musk to lead, said on Sunday that the debate over H-1B visas for the tech industry was missing the point. If the US did not celebrate "the talent and genius and skills of people of diverse backgrounds" while also seeking to limit undocumented immigrants, the country would not lead the world in Nobel laureates in physics, medicine and chemistry, Khanna said.
"If there was some problem with the culture we wouldn't be the world's greatest economy of 30 trillion," Khanna told Fox News.
But Khanna also argued that the H-1B system keeps foreign workers in limbo because they are less able to negotiate salary and benefits compared with domestic hires – and they are hurt by unfair labor conditions...
Sunday, December 29, 2024
Friday, January 19, 2024
House Democrats weigh Mike Johnson's fate as discord roils GOP
As House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) stares down growing threats of removal from his rebellious right flank, Democrats are debating whether they would save him or or vote to oust him like they did former Speaker Kevin McCarthy…
Sunday, January 14, 2024
Sunday, November 12, 2023
Sunday, November 5, 2023
Mike Johnson, theocrat: the House speaker and a plot against America
In the US, the peaceful coexistence of thousands of faiths was made possible in great part by the separation of church and state, which was demanded by Baptists in Massachusetts, Virginia and other places where they were being ostracized, taxed, flogged, imprisoned and even killed for their beliefs.
That separation, which is the wall that protects religious liberty and prevents religious hegemony, was engraved in the constitution.
How cruel an irony that some of the spiritual descendants of those persecuted Baptists should, like Mike Johnson, pervert American history and the constitution to impose a theocracy that would mean the end of democracy…
Saturday, November 4, 2023
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
A plurality of Americans believe God created humans without evolution - The Washington Post
Over the past decade, Johnson has worked and advocated for a religious theme park in Kentucky, one centered around a re-creation of the ark described in the Bible. The theme park elevates the idea that the world was created in its present form by God several thousand years ago; that there was no evolution involved in the emergence of different life forms, including humans.
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Saturday, October 28, 2023
‘Go pick up a Bible’: Speaker Mike Johnson defends anti-LGBTQ+ views | Mike Johnson | The Guardian
I am a Bible-believing Christian. Someone asked me today in the media, they said, '… People are curious. What does Mike Johnson think about any issue under the sun?' I said, well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it – that's my worldview. That's what I believe and so I make no apologies for it."…
Friday, October 27, 2023
Patriotic Millionaires on the Elevation of Election Denier Mike Johnson (R-LA) to Speaker of the House
…is among those most responsible for the events leading up to the January 6th insurrection…
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/patriotic-millionaires-on-the-elevation-of-election-denier-mike-johnson-r-la-to-speaker-of-the-house
Meet the evangelical activist who’s had a 'profound influence' on Speaker Mike Johnson
"David Barton is a political propagandist, he's a Christian-right activist who cherry picks from the past to promote political agendas in the present, to paint a picture of America's history as evangelicals would like it to be," said Fea, who's also an evangelical. "Mike Johnson comes straight out of that Christian-right world, where Barton's ideas are highly influential. It's the air they breathe."…
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