Mike Johnson

I lose sleep over the fact that Section 702 information acquired without a warrant can later be used by the FBI in criminal prosecutions unrelated to foreign intelligence or national security.

No Democrat supported our bill. I am hopeful that after hearing the testimony of our witnesses our colleagues will rethink their opposition to this long-overdue reform.

From one father to another, I thank you for those strong words. We will do that. That is our obligation. Mr. Speaker, I am happy to yield next to my friend and classmate, the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Kustoff).

Thank you for drawing attention to it because energy security is national security, as we say all the time. Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to yield next to my great friend, the great gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Tiffany).

Thank you, Doctor. I appreciate that. I am a proud cosponsor with you of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act because we recognize biology is not bigotry, it is reality. It is a very good bill, and we will pass it this week. Mr…

This evening, I have some of the most influential leaders in the House Republican Conference to address some of the key issues we are addressing this week together in the people's House. Mr. Speaker, I yield first to the gentleman from…

Who's funding these progressive district attorneys? We should know that. Well, it's George Soros.

Bad people should go in jail. That's where they belong. They shouldn't be out so they can hurt your wives, children, mothers, fathers, and grandfathers.

At the end of the day, the people that are sitting here right now, they don't want to hear that. The only thing you want is safety.

We have an opportunity to vote out DAs just like this to make people that look like me and you, ma'am, safer.

I hope we will have more discussion about jurisdiction, because we're overreaching significantly on the States' rights.

We have a spike in crime here in New York City: 1,500 rapes, up seven percent, robberies up 26 percent, felony assaults up 13 percent, burglaries up 23 percent, grand larcenies up 26 percent, auto thefts up 32 percent, all accounting for a…

When you get rid of the policies like a presumption against bail that we got rid of in Virginia, like the bail policies that you have here, the ending of cash bail here in New York City, it's like termites eating away at that stool.

I actually on the Criminal Justice Subcommittee tried to pass some laws on a bipartisan basis.

I actually care what is happening in this country.

Our government was stood up to protect people's rights to life, liberty, and property, and it's not doing it.

I apologize on behalf of the Congress.

In short, according to this memo, if you hold a gun to a clerk's face and ask, 'Empty the cash register, sir,' we are going to take that and that's going to be a misdemeanor, no big deal.

You want to defund NYPD a billion dollars in 2020, and you wonder why we are in the State of Emergency we are in.

Decreasing felonies to misdemeanors is dangerous and places the victim last.

Mr. Bragg, I hope you're watching. I hope you're watching today, sir. You're a disgrace. You're a danger to this country.

When Democrats took over the House and Senate and the Governor's Mansion between 2019-2021, they reversed policies that were put in place in 1995 that abolished parole, instituted mandatory minimum sentences and presumptions against bail.

My constituents are scared because they're watching what's happening in New York City, and they know that the Shenandoah Valley, if they adopt the wrong policies, if they elect the wrong prosecutors, their lives could turn for the worse…

I must say, please, let's turn our attention to the good things we can do in Congress.

If you want to see what happens when you don't prosecute people for throwing bricks through windows, starting fires in downtown, running everybody else out, come to Portland.