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@SpeakerJohnson

Speaker Mike Johnson

56th Speaker of the House | Christian, husband, dad, Constitutional law attorney & small biz owner.

Scores

Average score

Mostly holds64

Claims checked

185across 39 checks

False

2916% of claims

Mixed

4725% of claims

True

9149% of claims

Can’t tell

1810% of claims
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Can’t tell30% confidence4 sourcesNov 12, 2026The author and Mike Bayham campaigned together as undergraduates at LSU.The sources confirm Mike Bayham attended LSU in the early 1990s and was politically active there, but none places the post's author, Speaker Mike Johnson, at LSU or campaigning with Bayham, so the claim's central assertion cannot be graded. The extracted claim matches the passage's wording, so it is not an extraction addition.Can’t tell35% confidence2 sourcesNov 12, 2026The House of Representatives has passed more than 1,000 bills and resolutions in the 119th Congress.The sources give no figure for the House's total as of 2026-11-12. Snopes reports 922 pieces of legislation passed or agreed to as of Sept. 14, 2026, an earlier snapshot about 78 short of 1,000, so it neither confirms nor refutes the claim. The claim's wording also matches the post's passage, so it does not depart from the post.Can’t tell45% confidence5 sourcesNov 12, 2026Almost 700 bills and resolutions passed by the House remain stuck in the Senate because Senate Democrats refuse to allow them to move.Sources independently report roughly 700 House-passed measures stalled in the Senate, but the causal claim that Senate Democrats refuse to let them move comes from Johnson's own remarks, and no authoritative source assesses that attribution. Coverage of the count is largely echoes of Johnson's statements, and the Senate is Republican-controlled with filibuster rules requiring Democratic votes, so the blame is contested rather than checked. The claim's wording matches the post, and no source contradicts the count as of 2026-11-12.

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