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Mike Johnson: “Since the House has last met and Last vot voted. But even…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 27 of Government Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 29:51

Support our clean CR and reopen the government like your constituents, like livelihoods depend on it. Because they do. With that, Mr. Speaker, thank you. Yeah, Manu, go ahead. It's now been more than five weeks. Since the House has last met and Last vot voted. But even during government shutdown, House committees could still meet. There could still be markups, there could still be oversight hearings, bills could still come to the floor. So why not do that rather than have members back home in their districts? (29:51–29:58)

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Asserts that House committees can still meet during a government shutdown.

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