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Mike Johnson

Mike Johnson

Republican · LA U.S. RepresentativeCandidate 2026

10 years in the U.S. Congress · since 2017

  • role 56th speaker of the United States House of Representatives since 2023
  • role U.S. representative for Louisiana's 4th congressional district since 2017
  • role Elected speaker on October 25, 2023, after Kevin McCarthy was ousted, and reelected to a full term in 2025
  • role Chaired the Republican Study Committee from 2019 to 2021 and served in the Louisiana House from 2015 to 2017
  • controversy Contested the results of the 2020 presidential election on the House floor and in court
  • background Attorney who worked for the Alliance Defending Freedom and graduated from LSU's law center

Track record

Assembled from Congress.gov · FEC · official disclosures — each fact links its own source

These are verifiable facts from the public record, assembled in one place and presented without judgment. They are not a score, a grade, or a ranking. Context matters: a missed vote may be excused, on leadership or committee duty, or paired; a party-unity rate reflects agenda alignment, not virtue or independence; a disclosed trade or a documented relationship is a required public filing, not evidence of wrongdoing. Each fact links to its full source below.

  • 100.0%
    Roll-call participation →

    voted in 14 recorded roll calls

    Missing a vote is not inherently negative — an absence can be excused, reflect leadership or committee duty, or a recorded pairing.

  • 10
    Bills sponsored →

    plus 6 cosponsored

    A count of bills introduced as the primary sponsor; most legislation never advances, regardless of who sponsors it.

  • 0
    Sponsored bills enacted →

    of 10 bills sponsored

    Whether a bill becomes law depends on the whole Congress, not the sponsor alone; substantive provisions often pass folded into other vehicles.

  • 100%
    Party-unity voting

    votes with the party majority · on 8 party-line votes

    Party-unity is how often a member votes with their own party's majority on party-line votes — it reflects agenda alignment, not loyalty, independence, or virtue.

  • 0%
    Cross-party voting

    votes with the other party's majority on those same votes

    The share of the same party-line votes cast with the OTHER party's majority — a descriptive rate, not a measure of principle.

  • 0
    Documented positions →

    no positions documented yet

    Documented, sourced positions we have on record — the absence of a documented position is not the absence of a view.

  • 0
    Committee assignments

    none on record

    Committee seats are assignments made by party leadership — a measure of role and jurisdiction, not an achievement or a conflict in itself.

Assembled from CivicGate's ingested public records for Mike Johnson. A fact shown as “—” means we don't yet hold that data — not that the value is zero.

Voting record

Data from Congress.gov roll-call records

100.0%
of House roll calls voted

Full voting record (14 roll calls) → · Congress 119 · based on 14 of 676 recorded roll calls

See the participation leaderboard →

Issue positions (3)

Documented + CivicGate vote-derived — stated positions link their source; derived positions come from votes on direction-tagged bills

Campaign finance

2026 cycle

Incumbent for U.S. House LA-04 · 2026 General Election

  • $20,976,864 raised
  • $12,616,083 spent
  • $9,613,157 cash on hand
$20.98M
$14.08M
$12.26M
Itemized (≥ $200)$8.40M
Unitemized (< $200)$3.87M
Other committees (PACs)$1.81M
Transfers from other committees$6.89M
Offsets to expenditures$1.52K
Other receipts$9.96K
$12.62M
Operating expenditures$10.98M
Contribution refunds$29.61K
Other disbursements$1.61M
Cash on hand$9.61M
Debts owed by committee$0.00

Through July 18, 2026 · FEC

Data from FEC (through Jul 18, 2026)

Finance updated: not yet pulled

Over time

Data from FEC per-cycle campaign finance

Money raised, spent, and cash on hand across every election cycle on record — toggle a series in the legend.

Mike Johnson campaign finance by election cycle
Cycle RaisedSpentCash on hand
2016$1,201,812$1,005,718$196,094
2018$1,217,297$909,012$409,293
2020$1,323,911$1,063,517$669,686
2022$1,367,853$1,152,961$884,578
2024$19,867,069$19,499,271$1,252,377
2026$20,976,864$12,616,083$9,613,157

Top contributors (FEC)

Data from FEC, itemized campaign receipts

Top contributors — 2024 cycle

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor's reported employer (FEC Schedule A).

  • Employer not reported $1,069,000
  • LOCKHEED MARTIN $43,319
  • ENTREPRENEUR $37,323
  • ARYLESSSENCE $20,300
  • EDW C LEVY $20,196
  • FIERCE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS $19,450
  • CORNERSTONE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS $16,100
  • S-3 GROUP $15,000
  • ROSEPINE RETIREMENT & REHABILITATION $15,000
  • PGH IMMOVABLES LLC $14,700

Outside spending on this race

Data from FEC, Schedule E independent expenditures

Independent expenditures are money outside groups (PACs / super-PACs) spend to support or oppose a candidate without coordinating with their campaign. What's this? →

  • 2026 cycle $2 supporting · $0 opposing · 1 outside group
  • 2024 cycle $324 supporting · $13,144 opposing · 5 outside groups

See the outside-money leaderboard →

Sponsored / cosponsored bills (16)

Data from Congress.gov

16
  • HRES 1520Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the terrorist attacks launched against the United States on September 11, 2001, on the 25th anniversary of that date.sponsoredSep 9, 2026
  • HR 10253To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1706 South Burnside Avenue in Gonzales, Louisiana, as the "Cpl. Lawrence Brown Post Office Building".cosponsoredSep 2, 2026
  • HR 6963To designate the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Lafayette, Louisiana, as the "Rodney C. Hamilton Sr. VA Clinic".cosponsoredJan 6, 2026
  • HRES 719Honoring the life and legacy of Charles Charlie James Kirk.sponsoredSep 15, 2025
  • HR 5239Endometrial Cancer Research and Education Act of 2025cosponsoredSep 8, 2025
  • HJRES 12Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of terms that a Member of Congress may serve.cosponsoredJan 5, 2025
  • HR 5Reserved for the Speaker.sponsoredJan 2, 2025
  • HR 2Reserved for the Speaker.sponsoredJan 2, 2025
  • HR 10Reserved for the Speaker.sponsoredJan 2, 2025
  • HR 6Reserved for the Speaker.sponsoredJan 2, 2025
  • HR 9Reserved for the Speaker.sponsoredJan 2, 2025
  • HR 3Reserved for the Speaker.sponsoredJan 2, 2025
  • HR 8Reserved for the Speaker.sponsoredJan 2, 2025
  • HR 7917Leaker Accountability Act of 2022sponsoredMay 30, 2022
  • HCONRES 57Celebrating the first anniversary of the coalition of signatory countries to the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Promoting Women's Health and Strengthening the Family.cosponsoredOct 31, 2021
  • HR 5754Patient Advocate Tracker ActcosponsoredOct 26, 2021

Frequent co-sponsors

Data from Congress.gov

The members Johnson most often co-sponsors bills with — their legislative coalition.

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Documented relationships

Documented facts about Johnson, aggregated from public records. A documented relationship is not evidence of wrongdoing — it is context, not a conclusion.

No documented relationships of this kind on record — absence is not a finding.

Stock trades (STOCK Act)

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

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Data from Congress.gov · FEC

How Johnson connects to other members, committees, and PACs — drawn only from ingested records.

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