All posts tagged "Gop House"

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) tried bragging about how productive Congress has been under GOP leadership, only for X's community notes to call him out.

In a Friday post, the account for the MeidasTouch political news network pointed out a "brutal community note" that appeared below one of Johnson's posts.

In Johnson's post, he boasted that "House Republicans passed over 70 bills this week alone," and touted that the number "adds to our total of over 900 bills passed through the House so far this Congress."...

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) slammed his own GOP colleagues for shutting down a compromise from the House Speaker.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper opened a segment on "The Lead" about GOP hardliners voting down Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) effort to attach Trump's favored proof-of-citizenship voting bill, the Save America Act, to a must-pass defense bill as an amendment. He noted that they blocked it by tanking the procedural vote.

"I've had to deal with a few of these Republicans that continue to tank the procedural votes," Comer said. "We can't even vote on the bill, much less debate a bill."...