A Bottomless Congressional Conflagration
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Another month, another potential government shutdown.
The scant, good news of this story, if you could call it that: The U.S. House of Representatives did manage to briefly overcome its deep divisions long enough to elect a new speaker, Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana. However, Johnson is not your run-of-the-mill congressman. He is best known for being a creationist who ardently lobbied for a Noah's Ark theme park (yes, it's exactly what you think it is) and joining the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. So, there's that. He's also second in line to the U.S. president after the vice president.
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