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Mike Johnson: “We have the smallest margin in US History. I functionally…”

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Published July 5, 2026 | Video Starts at 03:36

How are you dealing with their concerns? Well, the Hill press corps has been writing this for the last two and a half years. Okay. We have the smallest margin in US History. I functionally have a one vote margin on most days. And so we work through everybody's preferences on legislation. And this week a handful of Republicans took down the rule, the procedural rule, to advance legislation. (03:36–03:42)

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Asserts that the current House has the smallest margin in US history, with a functional one-vote margin.

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