Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Mike Johnson
Republican · Louisiana
56th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, elected October 2023. Represents Louisiana's 4th congressional district since 2017. Constitutional law attorney and former chair of the Republican Study Committee. Re-elected Speaker in January 2025.
Record
Strong social conservative with a consistent record on fiscal restraint, border security, and defense spending. Architect of multiple continuing resolutions to keep the government funded. Frequent ally of the Trump administration's legislative priorities.
Legislative Record
Recently sponsored bills (43 on record)
- H.R.5488 — Protecting Our Courts from Foreign Manipulation Act of 2023 (Introduced, Sep 14, 2023)
- H.R.4872 — Securing Our Borders and Wilderness Act (Introduced, Jul 25, 2023)
- H.R.4491 — Solving an Overlooked Loophole in Votes for Executives (SOLVE) Act (Introduced, Jul 6, 2023)
- H.R.1580 — CEASE Overdose Act of 2023 (Introduced, Mar 14, 2023)
- H.R.1183 — Asylum Reform and Border Protection Act of 2023 (Introduced, Feb 24, 2023)
- H.R.792 — Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (Introduced, Feb 2, 2023)
- H.R.424 — Leaker Accountability Act of 2023 (Introduced, Jan 20, 2023)
- H.R.425 — History and Tradition Protection Act of 2023 (Introduced, Jan 20, 2023)
Recent floor votes (100 on record)
- Voted Yea on H.R.8884 — Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act (Passed, Jul 23, 2026)
- Voted Nay on H.Con.Res.89 — Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran (Passed, Jul 23, 2026)
- Voted Yea on H.Con.Res.113 — Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2027 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2028 through 2036 (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Yea on H.R.7008 — Stop Insider Trading Act (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Nay on H.R.7008 — Stop Insider Trading Act (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Yea on H.R.8800 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Nay on H.R.8800 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Aye on H.R.8800 — On Agreeing to the Amendment (Agreed to, Jul 22, 2026)
Recently cosponsored bills (12 on record)
- H.R.6963 — To designate the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Lafayette, Louisiana, as the "Rodney C. Hamilton Sr. VA Clinic". (Introduced, Jan 7, 2026)
- H.J.Res.12 — Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of terms that a Member of Congress may serve. (Introduced, Mar 11, 2025)
- H.R.7423 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 103 Benedette Street in Rayville, Louisiana, as the "Luke Letlow Post Office Building". (Signed into law, Feb 20, 2024)
- H.J.Res.98 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the National Labor Relations Board relating to "Standard for Determining Joint Employer Status". (Introduced, Nov 9, 2023)
- H.R.3381 — National Law Enforcement Officers Remembrance, Support and Community Outreach Act (Introduced, Oct 26, 2023)
- H.R.2553 — No More Political Prosecutions Act of 2023 (Introduced, Sep 27, 2023)
- H.R.5636 — Protect Children’s Innocence Act (Introduced, Sep 26, 2023)
- H.R.5465 — Congressional Access to Bureaucratic Offices Act (Introduced, Sep 14, 2023)
Voting analysis
Mike Johnson is Speaker of the House, and the office shapes every figure on this page. He holds no committee assignments, because Speakers do not take them. He was recorded against the Republican position exactly once. And he did not miss a vote.
The single departure
He voted against a consumer fuel retailing bill that most of his conference carried to passage. For a Speaker, a vote against the floor's result is a more deliberate act than it is for a rank-and-file member, since he controls what reaches the floor in the first place.
| Roll call | Date | Outcome | Their vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R.1346 Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act On Passage · roll call 164 | May 13, 2026 | Passed | Nay (party: Yea) |
A note on the bill list
The measures displayed under his name are placeholders reading "Reserved for the Speaker" rather than legislation he wrote. Low bill numbers are held back at the start of each Congress for the leadership to assign, and they appear in the record as reserved until they are used. They are shown here because they are what the source data contains, and they should not be read as a legislative agenda.
The subject classifications below are drawn from bills he has actually sponsored, and they do carry information.
Sponsored bills carry the Congressional Research Service's own subject classification. Mike Johnson's cluster into: Public Lands and Natural Resources (9), Crime and Law Enforcement (7), Government Operations and Politics (6), Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (4), Immigration (4), Law (3).
Of the 50 most recent of those, 46 currently sit at Introduced.
Against his own state group
Measured against the other Louisiana Republicans in the House — a handful of members — the Speaker's rate sits beneath their average.
Among the 4 Republicans in the Louisiana delegation, the average rate of voting against the party majority is 3.7%. Mike Johnson is below that average at 0.6%.
Tenure
He has represented his district since the second half of the last decade, and took the chair partway through a later Congress.
First elected in 2017, now serving across 5 terms. Mike Johnson falls in the mid cohort.
By the numbers
In the 119th Congress, Mike Johnson has 74 bills sponsored, 667 cosponsored, 100 recent floor votes recorded.
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