Johnson Elected Speaker of the House

The representative Mike Johnson won election on wednesday and became the 56th speaker of the house of representatives after three weeks of infighting and dysfunction. Three other canidates where quickly discarded. Representative Tom Emmer, who was let go from his speakership bid by the hard right on Tuesday, called the bitter process Republicans just went through over the past three weeks “open, honest, transparent and a true display of what democracy looks like in action.”

The paragraphs are small and add statements from Biden and others in leadership positions. There is a good perspective from many angles. The inverted pyramid is used as the most important information is mentioned first then there is more information added on later. There is quote after quote from Johnson added in. There is talk about a government shutdown if funds can not be acquired. But overall there is celebration of the new election and hope for the future.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/25/us/house-speaker-vote-mike-johnson?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20231025&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=cta&regi_id=218001202&segment_id=148279&user_id=a3c464112f5d8b8fffb42950ee36f2b1

One thought on “Johnson Elected Speaker of the House

  1. This is sort of a running discussion between a number of NYT
    writers. It began during the house votes for Speaker and for
    some reason has continued. The comments are sort of
    interesting, I guess. There’s also the beginning of a story
    at the top, which you can expand. I don’t know if you read
    that or not.

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