Mike Johnson on Big Beautiful Bill Vote: I’m Keeping this Open as Long as It Takes

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JOHNSON: "Well, yeah, I’ll keep it open as long as it takes to make sure we’ve got everybody here and accounted for and all the questions answered. I made that commitment to my members. You know, we’re in an era, an era of Congress where we have small margins, small majorities, and that makes it, by necessity, a bottom-up institution. You know, it’s not a couple of leaders in a back room like the old days where, you know, two or three people decide the agenda and it’s hoisted upon everyone else and they take orders and follow. It really is a fully participatory, deliberative body. And that means bottom-up, member-driven process. I’ve tried to decentralize the power of the speaker’s office, so much as that is possible in our system, and I think people appreciate that. They all know their voices were heard in this.”