Mike Johnson

Republican · LA-4 · U.S. House

Bio

James Michael Johnson is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 56th speaker of the United States House of Representatives since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he is in his fifth House term, having represented Louisiana's 4th congressional district since 2017.

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Record of service

In office: 9.6 years
First took office: 2017 (5 terms)
Seniority: 170 of 437 by time served
Age: 54

Leadership

House Republican Conference Vice Chair · 2021–2023
Speaker of the House · 2023–present

District offices

Bossier City, LA · 318-840-0309
DeRidder, LA · 337-226-6385
Leesville, LA · 337-423-4232

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

−$408k

2020

−$408k

2021

−$440k

2022

−$440k

2023

−$440k

2024

−$440k

2025

−$408k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $0 – $0
Liabilities: $265k – $550k
Net worth: −$550k – −$265k
Since 2019: +$0

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.74

Healthcare

R+0.73

Immigration & Border

R+0.97

Guns

R+0.87

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.85

Crime & Policing

R+0.91

Defense & Veterans

R+0.68

Economy & Labor

R+0.83

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.70

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.47

Education

R+0.52

Government & Democracy

R+0.86

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Mike Johnson's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

91%Closest

64%

28%

19%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

15%

Communist Party USA

13%

On the political map

Mike Johnson (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Johnsonsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Johnson's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.