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Mike Johnson

Mike Johnson

Republican · LA U.S. RepresentativeCandidate 2026

Service history

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

  • Representative LA-4 2017–present

Background

  • 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

Campaign finance

2018 cycle

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

  • $1,217,297 raised
  • $909,012 spent
  • $409,293 cash on hand
$1.22M
$1.22M
$727.54K
Itemized (≥ $200)$696.95K
Unitemized (< $200)$30.58K
Other committees (PACs)$489.20K
Offsets to expenditures$562.00
$909.01K
Operating expenditures$789.96K
Contribution refunds$30.05K
Transfers to other committees$12.50K
Other disbursements$76.50K
Cash on hand$409.29K
Debts owed by committee$0.00

Through December 31, 2018 · FEC

Data from FEC (through Dec 31, 2018)

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

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 3 recorded roll calls · chamber median 100.0%

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

  • 9
    Bills sponsored →

    plus 5 cosponsored

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

  • 0
    Sponsored bills enacted →

    of 9 bills sponsored

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

  • 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 House median 100.0%

Full voting record (3 roll calls) → · Congress 119 · based on 3 of 645 recorded roll calls

See the participation leaderboard →

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).

  • NULL $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 →

Issue positions (1)

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

Stock trades (STOCK Act)

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

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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.

Frequent co-sponsors

Data from Congress.gov

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

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Connections network

Data from Congress.gov · FEC

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

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Sponsored / cosponsored bills (14)

Data from Congress.gov

14
  • 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 6Reserved for the Speaker.sponsoredJan 2, 2025
  • HR 8Reserved for the Speaker.sponsoredJan 2, 2025
  • HR 10Reserved for the Speaker.sponsoredJan 2, 2025
  • HR 2Reserved for the Speaker.sponsoredJan 2, 2025
  • HR 3Reserved for the Speaker.sponsoredJan 2, 2025
  • HR 9Reserved 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

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