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Famed Christian evangelist Franklin Graham is the latest to weigh in on the contentious speakership battle in the U.S. House of Representatives, openly throwing his support behind Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), who won the Republican nomination for speaker Tuesday.

Donald Trump strongly suggested that Republicans go with “the leading candidate, Mike Johnson, & GET IT DONE, FAST!”

Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) is the latest Republican Speaker nominee, winning only hours after Rep. Mike Emmer (R-MN) won the nomination and later withdrew in the face of deepening opposition.

Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) dropped out of the Speaker race after his nomination’s inevitable collapse became apparent amid a large number of Republican holdouts.

House Republicans Tuesday begin voting on their next Speaker nomination in a new phase of the process which features eight candidates for the gavel.

Seven Republicans have declared their candidacy for Speaker as Republicans struggle to find a path to claim the gavel ahead of a nomination deadline set for noon on Sunday.

Americans have “had enough” of Democrat policies “destroying” our economy and security, according to House Republican Conference Vice Chair Mike Johnson of Louisiana, who asserted that the GOP seeks a change in how Washington works and is genuinely trying to prevent a government shutdown.

Merrick Garland told lawmakers he “[could not] recollect” if he had a conversation with the FBI about its probe into Hunter Biden.

Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan says it appears multiple FBI offices contributed to the memo targeting “radical-traditionalist” Catholics, contrary to FBI Director Wray’s testimony.

Republican officials blasted the Justice Department’s January 6 probe and the fresh indictment of former President Donald Trump, expressing support for Trump in the face of “serial election interference.”

At least five members of the House Judiciary Committee called for lawmakers to return to Washington, DC, for an emergency hearing about the Justice Department’s “interference” in the House Oversight Committee’s scheduled testimony of Devon Archer, a key Biden family associate.

Democrats are complaining that the GOP is trying to win election votes by opposing the increasingly unpopular transgender ideology.

GOP lawmakers held a hearing to discuss the Joe Biden administration’s alleged selective enforcement of the FACE Act against pro-life activists. 

Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), slammed collusion between the federal government and Twitter to censor American citizens at a Judiciary Committee hearing today, calling particular attention to the collaboration between intelligence agencies and the social media platform.

The Justice Department informed House Judiciary Committee Republicans on Monday that it could not fulfill all of their requests relating to the investigation into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, citing the department’s “longstanding policy” about ongoing matters.

Republican officials are blasting the “colossal failure” of a Supreme Court investigation that failed to determine the identity of the individual who leaked the Court’s draft opinion of its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in May, calling it both “dangerous” and “inexcusable,” while warning it “will jeopardize the future operations of our nation’s highest court.”

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Friday announced a new investigation into President Joe Biden’s classified document scandal in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland. 

Democrats refused to vote for a resolution condemning recent violence against pro-life pregnancy centers, groups, and churches.

The Pentagon on Tuesday said it was sticking to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, despite President Joe Biden calling the pandemic “over.”

A whistleblower came forward with the name of a second FBI official who allegedly pressured agents to label cases as “domestic violent extremism” to boost case numbers, according to House Judiciary Committee Republicans.

Democrats recently blocked consideration of every Republican amendment to a defense bill that would have ended the military vaccine mandate.

House Democrats on Tuesday blocked a Republican resolution that would have condemned the violence seen by radical pro-abortion activists at churches and pro-life pregnancy centers in recent months.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) reacted to reports that some of the oil released from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve was exported to other countries, including China, by stating that

On Thursday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “John Bachman Now,” Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) praised the Supreme Court’s ruling on New York’s concealed carry law by stating that a right you have to ask the state for permission to exercise isn’t

Republicans called for the defense secretary to be fired if he does not repeal the Biden administration’s coronavirus vaccine mandate.

House Republican Conference Vice Chair Mike Johnson (R-LA) is an “idiot” for opposing the late-term abortion of a child only “seconds away” from birth, according to MSNBC’s Katie Phang, who heaped praise upon an Alabama abortion provider who avoided the congressman’s questioning during a tense hearing on access to the medical procedure this week.

Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), a Senate candidate in the upcoming state primary to fill the vacated seat of Sen. Jim Inhofe, is leading a House GOP resolution to expunge the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump in the wake of last year’s Capitol Hill attack.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) responded to President Joe Biden’s calls for gun control by stating that the real issues with crime are lax prosecutors and the problems at the border

Republicans blasted the “disgrace[ful]” move, as well as Attorney General Merrick Garland, with many calling for his immediate resignation.

Attorney General Merrick Garland told the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday that he had not sought, and would not seek, ethics review from the Department of Justice over his son-in-law’s ties to the promotion of Critical Race Theory (CRT).

Thursday on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) slammed President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and response to the Taliban’s ensuing takeover.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who is angling to become the next House GOP Conference chair, told Republican colleagues that she only wants to serve in GOP leadership until the 2022 midterm elections.

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R-NC) said on Thursday that it was “preposterous” and “insulting” for Democrats to frame black Americans as incapable of obtaining photo ID to comply with voter-ID laws.

Democrats used impeachment as an attempt to “equate” 75 million Trump supporters with Capitol rioters, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) said.

House Judiciary Committee Republicans launched an inquiry into the use of Chinese drones in the United States to enforce social distancing.

Relaxing state-issued occupational licensing regulations should be included in the economic recovery policy linked to the coronavirus outbreak, said Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), offering his remarks on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.