Is Speaker Mike Johnson the equivalent of Speaker Dade Phelan (Texas)?
They both seem to be beholden to the Democrats.
Any speaker now will be “beholden” to the Democrats. The pressure of blackmail for things spurious or real plus immense bribery and threats against family are too much to resist. The easiest is child porn on the cell phone. It is easy to place there either prior to confiscation and “finding” it or any time the phone is not off with the battery out. In the 2024 Congress many republican congressmen and senators- of they get a majority- will be subject to the same things. Congress has already given up most of its law-making power by delegating it to the Bureaus and Agencies where almost all new laws are promulgated as “regulations” or “rules,” the violation of which can send you to prison just as if they were properly legislated laws with the difference that the administrative courts and judges operate on a different system i.e. guilty until proven innocent and then maybe still guilty.