Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
As Republican Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana prepared to become the nation’s new House speaker, a variety of GOP senators conceded that they had no idea who he is. That reaction probably wasn’t limited to Capitol Hill: There hasn’t been any public polling on the congressman, but I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that the overwhelming majority of American voters would struggle to pick the congressman out of a lineup. So, let’s review the top 11 things to know about the new House speaker.
The new House speaker has not only criticized the constitutional principle of church-state separation, the GOP congressman has also denied that church-state separation should be seen as a constitutional principle in the first place. 7. Johnson has endorsed cuts to Social Security and Medicare. During his tenure as chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the group touted budget plans that called for deep cuts to Social Security and Medicare.
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