Lisa Desjardins:
Right.
Let's get right to his bio. Mike Johnson is 51 years old. He was elected this same year as President Trump, came in 2016 to Congress. Now, he is someone who is a constitutional lawyer. He has actually litigated especially on socially conservative issues. He is also the co-host of a Christian broadcast — podcast with his wife.
He's an evangelical Christian. That is a part not just of his faith, but of his politics as well. Let's talk about his beliefs and his policy here. Now, he is a fiscal hawk. He announced today that he wants to create a commission to look at the national debt. On Ukraine, he is someone who supports Ukraine.
However, he has recently questioned larger funding bills, even voted against some. So we will watch him closely on that issue. Now, on gay rights, LGBTQ issues, in the early 2000s, he is someone who wrote about the idea that gay marriage should be allowed to be banned, and that states should be allowed to have sodomy laws.
On abortion, he supports and, in fact, filed legislation for a national 15-week abortion ban. And as you can hear in some of his hearings, he had sat on the House Judiciary Committee, abortion is a key issue for him.
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