So hes been representing the louisiana Congressional District now since 2016. Hes in the leadership, but hes not too high in the leadership. So hes the vice chair of the House Republican conference. Heres the other big thing. He served on trumps first Senate Impeachment trial defense team. Hes a defender of donald trump, and we can see that in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, so what we see is that johnson, in fact, had drafted the house gop legal brief supporting the texas suit. And he objected to Certifying The 2020 Election Results. Now perhaps theres some interesting sort of back and forth. Perhaps some republicans want to forget about it. Lets look back and compare it to now. We have a solemn responsibility today, we must vote to sustain objections to states of electors smutted by states that we genuinely believe clearly violated the constitution and the president ial election of 2020. This is the threshold before us, and its an issue before us for the state of arizona.
The house of representatives the honorable Hakeem Jeffries of new york. Mr. Speaker, you may agree with this. But we are back here 22 days into this republican manufactured chaos and House Republicans have brought us to the exact same position that we were back then. All of the infighting, all the disarray, just to end up where we were three weeks ago. These past few weeks we have been left wondering if republicans were truly intent on solving our issues, reopening the house of representatives and rallying around someone to lead this chamber. Or has this been about Something Else . Has this been a focus of House Republicans to find the person who can pass their extreme litmus test to oppose marriage equality, enact a nationwide abortion ban without exceptions, gut Social Security and medicare, and support overturning a free and fair election. A fair question. A fair question. Nowhere in that Candidate Questionnaire is it about growing the middle class, helping our communities, keeping