IV 

118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1209 

Declaring the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives to be vacant. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 8, 2024 

Ms. GREENE of Georgia submitted the following resolution; which was laid on 

the table 

RESOLUTION 

Declaring the office of Speaker of the House of 

Representatives to be vacant. 

Whereas the House Republican Conference elected Mike 

Johnson on October 25, 2023, after three-and-a-half 

weeks of trying to decide on a new Speaker of the House; 

Whereas Mike Johnson sent the Republican Conference a letter making promises as to what type of Speaker he would 

be and outlining his plans going forward. Mike Johnson 

put forth seven tenets that would guide the Conference 

under his speakership: 

(1) Restore trust by ensuring total transparency, 

open processes, and regular order. 

(2) Advance a comprehensive policy agenda supported by Conference consensus. 

(3) Promote individual Members, and thus the whole 

team, by working to understand and emphasize each 


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Member’s unique strengths, district dynamics and challenges, and individual goals and objectives. 

(4) Engage Members in productive working groups 

to formulate solutions in key policy areas and enhance 

our internal communications and team building. 

(5) Effectively message to persuasively inform the 

Republican base and the American people of our policy 

agenda, why we are pursuing it, and how it will ensure 

liberty, opportunity, and security for all Americans. 

(6) Build and utilize external coalitions in the conservative ecosphere, including think tanks, policy groups, 

and other allied organizations that can contribute to our 

efforts. 

(7) Develop and grow our majority by building upon 

our resources and expanding the base to successfully advance our conservative vision and agenda. 

Whereas Speaker Johnson has not lived up to a single one 

of his self-imposed tenets; 

Whereas Speaker Johnson allowed the Conference only one 

day, rather than 72 hours, to review a 1000-plus page 

bill to which no amendments could be offered, rather 

than ‘‘ensure total transparency, open processes, and regular order;’’ 

Whereas Speaker Johnson worked with Democrats to produce 

appropriations texts, NDAA text, and other legislative 

items, rather than with Republicans ‘‘to understand and 

emphasize each Member’s unique strengths and engage 

with them;’’ 

Whereas Speaker Johnson relied on majority Democrat support to pass a two-part omnibus spending bill, rather 

than ‘‘advancing a policy agenda supported by Conference consensus;’’ 


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Whereas, on December 1, 2023, Speaker Johnson failed to 

protect the Republican majority when he allowed multiple 

votes to remove another Republican from the House of 

Representatives. It was unprecedented for a Member to 

be removed from Congress by a two-thirds vote prior to 

conviction of a crime. To this day, the Republican expelled from the House under Speaker Johnson has not 

been convicted of a crime. Meanwhile, a Democrat now 

holds that seat; 

Whereas Speaker Johnson supported fully funding abortion, 

the trans agenda, the climate agenda, foreign wars, and 

Biden’s border crisis, rather than ‘‘ensuring liberty, opportunity, and security for all Americans;’’ 

Whereas Speaker Johnson relied on Democrat votes on at 

least two occasions, with the first transgression occurring 

on March 22, 2024, with House passage of H.Res. 

1102—Part 2 of the Johnson/Schumer omnibus—and 

the second transgression occurring on April 20, 2024, 

with House passage of H.R. 8035—the 61-billion-dollar 

Ukraine funding bill. On both occasions, the ‘‘majority of 

the majority’’—112 Republicans—voted against the 

measures, while only 101 voted in favor; 

Whereas before Kevin McCarthy was ousted as Speaker, our 

Conference had passed seven appropriations bills, which 

were some of the strongest conservative bills passed in 

decades. Speaker Johnson refused to continue this important process. He instead led us to another CR on January 18, 2024, and got it passed with the support of 207 

Democrats and only 107 Republicans, while 106 Republicans voted against it; 

Whereas Speaker Johnson passed a third CR, this time calling it a ‘‘process CR,’’ as if that made continuing Nancy 


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Pelosi’s budget yet again any different from the previous 

CRs; 

Whereas with little to no communication with our conference, 

Speaker Johnson passed the first minibus appropriations 

bill on March 6, and passed the second minibus appropriations bill two weeks later, on March 22; 

Whereas, a two-part omnibus, split into two minibuses, was 

crammed down our throats and passed under suspension 

of the rules, with only one day to review it; 

Whereas Speaker Johnson’s omnibus did nothing to stop 

Biden’s deadly border invasion—it fully funded it. Mike 

Johnson did nothing to stop the energy-killing Green 

New Deal climate agenda—he fully funded it. He did 

nothing to stop the weaponized DOJ and FBI—he fully 

funded them. He did nothing to stop the trans agenda on 

kids—he fully funded it. He did nothing to stop full term 

abortions—he fully funded them. He did nothing to stop 

the fueling of foreign forever wars—he fully funded them; 

Whereas, on April 18, 2024, the Rules Committee passed H. 

Res. 1160—the rule providing for consideration of the 

95-billion-dollar foreign funding package—by a vote of 9 

to 3. Notably, all Democrat members of the Committee 

voted to advance the measure to the floor while three Republicans opposed it. It is unprecedented for members of 

the minority party to advance a resolution out of the 

Rules Committee. Since 1995, there have been a few instances of rules advancing out of Committee with minority support; however, H. Res. 1160 is the only instance 

where this was done to bypass opposition from members 

of the majority party; 


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Whereas the last instance an appropriations measure which 

passed the House failed to include a ‘‘majority of the majority’’ was on final passage of the FY2015 Department 

of Homeland Security House appropriations bill during 

the 114th Congress. In the months following this failure, 

Speaker Boehner announced his resignation; 

Whereas, in a January 26, 2024, ‘‘Dear Colleague,’’ Speaker 

Johnson called the Senate supplemental and border security legislation, ‘‘dead on arrival in the House.’’ Likewise, 

in January 2024, Speaker Johnson took a trip to the 

U.S. Mexico border where he said, ‘‘If President Biden 

wants a supplemental spending bill focused on national 

security, it better begin by defending America’s national 

security;’’ 

Whereas, in the months following his border trip, Speaker 

Johnson introduced a 95-billion-dollar foreign aid supplemental with no border security attached; 

Whereas excuses like, ‘‘this is just how you have to govern 

in divided government,’’ are pathetic, weak, and unacceptable. Even with our razor-thin Republican majority, 

we could have at least secured the border, with it being 

the number one issue in the country, and the issue that 

is causing Biden to trail President Trump in poll after 

poll; 

Whereas Speaker Johnson’s capitulation on his promise to secure the border came on the heels of Laken Riley being 

brutally murdered, women and children being raped by illegal alien monsters, and our own Border Patrol and 

Texas National Guard being run over by hordes of military-aged illegals; 


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Whereas great legislation like H.R. 2 and the Laken Riley 

Act are only messaging bills unless we fight to enforce 

them in our government funding bills; 

Whereas, while serving on the House Judiciary Committee, 

Mike Johnson was a strong defender of individual liberties and was the Chair of the Subcommittee on the 

Constitution and Limited Government. Despite his history as a defender of civil liberties, on April 12, 2024, 

Mike Johnson cast the deciding vote against requiring a 

warrant for U.S. person queries of Foreign Intelligence 

Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702 data; 

Whereas our Conference could have also taken out funding 

for abortion and the trans agenda on kids if our own 

Speaker would have allowed us to offer amendments. Instead, Mike Johnson worked with Chuck Schumer rather 

than with the Conference, and gave Joe Biden and the 

Democrats everything they wanted—no different from 

how a Speaker Hakeem Jeffries would have done; 

Whereas Speaker Johnson fully funded Special Counsel Jack 

Smith’s witch hunt and 91 indictments against President 

Trump, our Republican Presidential nominee. House Republicans could have used our power of the purse to stop 

this, but Speaker Johnson didn’t even let us try; 

Whereas Joe Biden’s weaponized DOI is arresting a new 

January 6th election protestor every single day and putting nonviolent political enemies, including veterans, 

mothers and fathers, and grandparents in jail for years; 

Whereas our pro-life Christian conservative Republican 

Speaker Mike Johnson fully funded the DOJ as it is 

prosecuting and convicting peaceful pro-life activists who 


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are facing eleven years in jail, again refusing to allow Republicans to offer amendments to stop these injustices; 

Whereas actions are the only thing that matter, and words 

are meaningless without following through on them. By 

passing the Democrats’ agenda and handcuffing Republicans’ ability to influence legislation, our elected Republican Speaker Mike Johnson has aided and abetted the 

Democrats and the Biden administration in destroying 

our country; 

Whereas removing this Uniparty Speaker will not give the 

Speaker’s gavel to the Democrats, which would only happen if Republicans actually vote, for Hakeem Jeffries. In 

fact, Minority Leader Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi, and other 

high-ranking Democrats have publicly stated they will 

save Mike Johnson from a vote to vacate him. In a recent 

interview, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said, ‘‘Even 

though we’re in the minority. . .We effectively have been 

governing as if we were in the majority;’’ 

Whereas our country is nearly 35 trillion dollars in debt, and 

about 40 billion dollars are added to the debt every day. 

Our border is overrun by illegal invaders and terrorists 

from over 160 countries. Our people are being killed by 

the hundreds every single day by fentanyl, and Mike 

Johnson refuses to do anything about it; 

Whereas Mike Johnson is ill-equipped to handle the rigors of 

the job of Speaker of the House and has allowed a 

Uniparty—one that fuels foreign wars, tramples on civil 

liberties, and increases our disastrous national debt—to 

take complete control of the House of Representatives; 

and 


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Whereas Speaker Johnson’s tenure is defined by one selfserving characteristic: When given a choice between advancing Republican priorities or allying with Democrats 

to preserve his own personal power, Johnson regularly 

chooses to ally himself with Democrats: Now, therefore, 

be it 

1 Resolved, That the office of Speaker of the House of 

2 Representatives is hereby declared to be vacant. 

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