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Editorial: With a speaker of the House finally in place, it’s time for the GOP to get down to governing

Mike Johnson, surrounded by House Republicans, speaks after being elected as the speaker nominee during a GOP conference meeting in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, in Washington, D.C..

In the end, after three weeks of embarrassing paralysis simply trying to find someone from their ranks to lead the House of Representatives, GOP members settled on someone unfamiliar to most of the country.

Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson is our new speaker of the House. A member since only 2016, Johnson ascended anyway, probably due as much to simple exhaustion as anything else.

On the surface, his selection isn’t encouraging, given the need for compromise to get the people’s business done. Johnson voted against keeping

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