Speaker Mike Johnson
56th Speaker of the House | Christian, husband, dad, Constitutional law attorney & small biz owner.
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Mostly holds64Claims checked
185across 39 checks
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2916% of claims
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False85% confidence5 sourcesNov 12, 2026The Senate did not pass any appropriations bills in the 119th Congress.Said by AThe claim that the Senate passed no appropriations bills in the 119th Congress is contradicted by primary Senate and Congress.gov records showing Senate passage of funding measures, including continuing resolutions that were enacted into law. The post's remark that the Senate passed no appropriations bills is a broader political claim, but the extracted claim is a checkable factual assertion and the sources refute it.True90% confidence4 sourcesNov 12, 2026Mike Bayham was a Louisiana State Representative.Multiple sources, including the Louisiana House of Representatives member page and news reports, establish that Mike Bayham was a Louisiana State Representative (District 103, St. Bernard Parish, elected 2023). The claim uses past tense, consistent with the reported death on 2026-11-12; as of the claim date he held the seat, and the later death does not make the claim false.True92% confidence8 sourcesNov 12, 2026Mike Bayham died.Multiple independent outlets (Shreveport Times, WGNO, News From The States, Fox 8, WWL, WBRZ, KLFY, Bossier Press-Tribune) report that Louisiana State Rep. Mike Bayham died on November 12, 2026, citing family, his office, and parish officials; the claim matches the post's referent (Speaker Johnson's statement on Rep. Mike Bayham's passing) and no source contradicts it.True90% confidence8 sourcesNov 12, 2026Representative Thomas Massie filed articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.Multiple tier1 and tier2 sources (Reuters, PolitiFact, BBC, NPR, CBS, NBC) report that Rep. Thomas Massie filed/reintroduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in November 2026, with CNN and Snopes confirming the report. Massie originally filed in September and reintroduced the articles on November 9, so the claim is accurate on its core assertion.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.