Mike Johnson defended his record to the Daily Caller News Foundation on Wednesday amid threats from rank-and-file Republicans to remove him from office.
The U.S. soldier injured in a Christmas Day attack by Iran-backed militias remains in a coma after taking shrapnel to the brain and will have a difficult road to recover.
A Republican congressman who voted to oust Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House has defended the measure even as the House has faced challenges since then.