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 let-
ter 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 sup-
ported 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 chal-
lenges, 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 con-
servative 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 ad-
vance 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 reg-
ular 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 sup-
port to pass a two-part omnibus spending bill, rather 
than ‘‘advancing a policy agenda supported by Con-
ference 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 ex-
pelled 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, op-
portunity, 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 impor-
tant process. He instead led us to another CR on Janu-
ary 18, 2024, and got it passed with the support of 207 
Democrats and only 107 Republicans, while 106 Repub-
licans voted against it; 
Whereas Speaker Johnson passed a third CR, this time call-
ing 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 appro-
priations 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 Re-
publicans 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 in-
stances of rules advancing out of Committee with minor-
ity 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 ma-
jority’’ 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 secu-
rity 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 supple-
mental with no border security attached; 
Whereas excuses like, ‘‘this is just how you have to govern 
in divided government,’’ are pathetic, weak, and unac-
ceptable. 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 se-
cure the border came on the heels of Laken Riley being 
brutally murdered, women and children being raped by il-
legal alien monsters, and our own Border Patrol and 
Texas National Guard being run over by hordes of mili-
tary-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 lib-
erties and was the Chair of the Subcommittee on the 
Constitution and Limited Government. Despite his his-
tory 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. In-
stead, 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 Re-
publicans 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 put-
ting 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 Re-
publicans 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 Repub-
licans’ ability to influence legislation, our elected Repub-
lican 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 hap-
pen 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 self- 
serving characteristic: When given a choice between ad-
vancing Republican priorities or allying with Democrats 
to preserve his own personal power, Johnson regularly 
chooses to ally himself with Democrats: Now, therefore, 
be it 
Resolved, That the office of Speaker of the House of 
Representatives is hereby declared to be vacant. 
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