Add Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., to the growing list of House Republicans throwing their hat into the crowded ring to be the next GOP House speaker.
"I'm in," Johnson, who is a prominent member of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Republican Conference vice chair, posted on X Saturday, linking to his letter to GOP colleagues announcing his candidacy.
Johnson's letter called for "principled leadership" from the House GOP majority, adding he has "never aspired" to be speaker but is called to duty by "so many members across our conference." "It is incumbent upon us now to decide upon a consensus candidate who can serve as a trusted caretaker and a good steward of the gavel," Johnson's letter read.Johnson, also the former chair of the Republican Study Committee, the largest panel in the House, is a socially and fiscally conservative constitutional law attorney who has been a member since 2017The speakership remained vacant Saturday after Rep.
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