Mike Johnson

I've not seen them cross the line yet.

Some of the most meaningful work of their careers

[T]here cannot be a regular legislative session so long as the government is closed and Americans are feeling so much pain.

Every executive action signed by … autopen without written authorization should be voided.

I don’t see a way to amend the Constitution, because it takes about 10 years to do that.

It’s up to the Democrats. Everybody knows that.

The president tried his best. He brought him in before all this madness started, and Chuck Schumer and (House Democratic Leader) Hakeem Jeffries effectively told him to jump in the Potomac.

The House Democrats have chosen a side they were forced to by that far left that they’re so terrified of.

We saw our clearest sign yet that this radical insurgent movement in the Democrat Party is succeeding, and they are ending what has always been known as the Democrat Party in America.

You’re talking about, I think it’s 42 [million] or 43 million Americans rely upon that vital service, and it’s unconscionable that they would be held at bay and held as leverage on this.

If the Senate passes the bill, then the House will address that.

We will not negotiate with legislative terrorists

Well, of course. I mean, that’s our system. If the people duly elect a representative, then we will welcome them into the body.

The president uses social media to make a point…He is using satire to make a point. He is not calling for the murder of his political opponents.

The ball would be back in our court and we’d probably do that.

I wish that weren’t the case, but we do have to turn the volume down.

I will administer the oath to [Grijalva], I hope, on the first day we come back to legislative session. I’m willing and anxious to do that.

So, yet another Democrat politician from Arizona is trying to get national publicity. So now it’s the state AG, who’s going to sue me because … Rep.-elect Grijalva is not yet sworn in.

In the meantime, instead of doing TikTok videos, she should be serving her constituents.

Apparently she’s gotten some of it, but good luck with that.

We run the House. She has no jurisdiction. We’re following the precedent.

So I will administer the oath to her on the first day we come back [to] legislative session.

She has no jurisdiction.

Now that Democrats have had their protests and publicity stunts, I just pray that they come to their senses and end this shutdown.

Every day that the government is shut down, it is a danger to the American people.