Mike Johnson Implies the Senate Owns the Lame in

It must be liberating for Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson (LA-04) this lame duck session.

As RedState reported, now that Republicans have been pushed into the minority, Johnson has demurred from placing his hat in the ring for management, leaving the food fights to come to a new minority chief, which at this writing is between Rep. Jim Jordan (OH-04) and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (LA-01). So, while Republicans are beating the drum about getting as a lot as attainable accomplished in the 55 days left before the new blue-majority Congress is sworn in, Johnson appears just about sanguine about the entire factor.

In a current press scrum, Johnson started: 

Let me say this, okay? We tabulated how many payments have been really handed, because we lose observe of it on any given day. In the 119th Congress, the House Republicans led in the majority, we have now handed 1,000 measures out of the House.

But as President Donald Trump said during his Midterm Blitz, the Senate is the place where payments go to die. Johnson seems to agree with him.

Johnson continued: 

Almost 700 of them are stacked up in the hopper in the Senate proper now. Why? Because the Senate Democrats refused to transfer any laws. They didn’t need to give the president or Republicans any more wins as we went into this election cycle. 

That was apparent. While Johnson did not go there, the relaxation of us will. The feckless management of Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) was also a motive why nothing was moved through. Instead, Johnson merely drew the line straight to the Senate’s door.

So, the query actually is for the Senate.

The House will work. We will keep right here around the clock if obligatory to push issues over. 

We obtained issues pending over there now, big issues. The Farm Bill. The NDAA. You’ve obtained FISA. You’ve obtained a Reconciliation Bill that is still sitting there. We have authorities funding points. They did not even move a single Appropriations Bill in the Senate. It’s been a great frustration to us. 

If Johnson is pissed off, how does he assume the average American feels? After this election, he and the relaxation of Congress now know.

To be frank, Johnson’s position as House Speaker is more difficult, because he has 217 Republican representatives to wrangle and factions to keep in line. The House took the project severely: secure President Donald Trump’s agenda. 

The Senate? Asleep at the uniparty wheel.

Johnson continued:

The House has been one of the most productive chambers, the most productive Houses in the historical past of the establishment, actually in the fashionable period. But the Senate blocked it all. And so, the query is, what are we going to have the option to accomplish in this lame duck? We actually have to ask the Senate.

Because the House is prepared and ready to move, and continue to transfer laws. But it hits a stone wall over there.

Johnson did categorical some optimism that the Senate would possibly finally do its job.

So, I’m hopeful that their management elections get resolved rapidly and that they will transfer issues. There’s some good indication just right here within the last hour, I’m told they obtained to cloture to transfer ahead on the Permitting Bill, which is a big, important factor.

We have issues like the College Sports Bills that are still pending. There’s all kinds of actually important initiatives, the Rate Payer Protection Act, you understand, and all the relaxation.

So, the query is for the Senate, not the House. 

Meeoww! Johnson affirmed that under his management, the House could be devoted to fulfill its duties.

We’ll get our job accomplished, we’ll have the personnel right here to get the laws handed. And we actually hope we will have a very, very productive lame duck and ship a lot more to the president’s desk before we have now to flip the keys over in January.

Frankly, in the cold, harsh mild of historical past and legacy, Johnson will in the end experience out on a high observe. The same can’t be said for Senate Majority Leader John Thune.

WATCH:

🔥🚨 HOLY CRAP! — Speaker Mike Johnson reveals there are OVER 700+ items of laws ready for the SENATE TO VOTE ON THEM.

SEN. JOHN THUNE IS A FAILURE!

“In the 119th Congress, the House Republicans led in the majority. We have passed 1,000 measures out of the House.”… pic.twitter.com/DxTuBnWn6A

— The Patriot Oasis™ (@ThePatriotOasis) November 10, 2026

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