Mike Johnson

The American people awoke this morning to another incomprehensible and utterly avoidable disaster created by the obviously incompetent Biden Administration.

Thank you for your courage. I practice constitutional law, so bankruptcy law is a new field for me and I am trying to wrap my mind around it.

FERC's statutory duty under the Natural Gas Act is to determine whether a project is, in fact, in the American people's best interest.

Voting rights are too important to be given over to a partisan political agenda.

I don't think everybody does understand what Jim Crow really was and the dark era that it was in our nation.

The, quote, 'exceptional conditions at the time justified the, quote, 'extraordinary departure from the traditional course of relations between the States and the Federal government.'

Congress passed the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to overcome State resistance and barriers that prevented minorities from exercising their right to vote as is guaranteed by the 15th Amendment.

Voting is a fundamental right in the United States and the 15th amendment requires the States to ensure voting is accessible and available to every American.

As I have noted here many times before, the election clause of the U.S. Constitution gives State legislatures the authority to prescribe, quote, 'the times, places, and manner of holding elections.'

This overly-broad and constitutionally-suspect Democratic proposal aims to outlaw common sense voter integrity measures.

We need a cost-imposing strategy. We need to demonstrate to them that their investments will be thwarted.

Diversity on the bench is certainly an attribute that is valuable.

This is going to end really badly.

I think all Members of this Committee should aspire to getting us back to the point where we nominate people on their merit.

Mr. Estrada was, quote, 'especially dangerous because he is Latino,' unquote.

Some Democrats have repeatedly opposed women and minority nominees to the bench just because they were chosen by Republican Presidents.

A lot of is that being jeopardized by politics today.

The Black robe of all judges holds important symbolism.

The bottom line is, Republicans want every legal vote to count, want to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat.

The chaos that ensued as a result of the 2020 election was occasioned because of all those irregularities.

Isn't it true that States are still best situated to enact changes in election law?

H.R. 4 is hugely problematic.

The real aim of the Act is to reverse the decision in Shelby County.

This is an exercise in advancing a political narrative.

I hope today we can have a productive conversation about voting rights and how we can best safeguard the ability of all eligible Americans to vote.