
WASHINGTON – As vice chair of the House Republican Conference, U.S Rep. Mike Johnson is in charge of keeping his party on message. Now the 51-year-old evangelical Christian lawyer from the north Louisiana town of Benton is weighing a bid to lead the House of Representatives as speaker. On Friday afternoon, Johnson was making calls to fellow House members to gauge support for a possible run. He had said as late as Monday that he would run for speaker if his good friend, Jim Jordan of Ohio, stepped aside. After...