Speaker Mike Johnson Throws RINO John Thune’s Senate Under the Bus — Reveals OVER 700 House Bills Stacked Up Waiting for Action as Lame Duck Clock Runs Out

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) delivered a blunt assessment of the 119th Congress this week, revealing that House Republicans have passed roughly 1,000 measures, and nearly 700 of them are still sitting in the Senate hopper while the chamber under Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has failed to move them.

Johnson’s comments come in the wake of the midterm bloodbath that cost Republicans control of the Senate (Democrats flipped multiple seats) and handed the House to the left.

With the lame-duck session underway and Democrats set to take the gavel in January 2027, the Speaker made clear the bottleneck is not in the House.

In the 119th Congress, the House Republicans led in the majority. We have passed 1,000 measures out of the House, OK? Almost 700 of them are stacked up in the hopper in the Senate right now,” Johnson revealed.

He continued: “Why? Because the Senate Democrats refused to move any legislation. They did not want to give the president and Republicans any more wins… The House will work. We will stay here around the clock if necessary… We got things pending over there right now. Big things: the farm bill, the NDAA. You got FISA. You have a reconciliation bill that’s still sitting there. We have government funding… They didn’t even pass a single appropriations bill in the Senate.”

Johnson described the House as “one of the most productive chambers, the most productive houses in the history of the institution, certainly in the modern era,” while the Senate has served as a “stone wall.”

He noted some late movement, including cloture on a permitting bill, but stressed the question for the remaining weeks is squarely on the Senate, not the House, if more legislation is to reach President Trump’s desk before the keys are turned over in January.

Johnson’s remarks follow an aggressive last-minute legislative push from the House Freedom Caucus.

As The Gateway Pundit reported Monday, conservative lawmakers delivered a sweeping lame-duck agenda to Johnson and Thune demanding action before Republicans lose their congressional majorities on January 3, 2027.

Their priorities include federal voter ID requirements, border enforcement measures, legislation targeting sanctuary cities, restrictions on congressional stock trading, energy permitting reform, and at least $1 trillion in proposed spending reductions.

The lawmakers also demanded that Republicans remain in Washington until their legislative priorities are addressed.

A growing group of Republican senators is demanding that the GOP postpone its November 10 leadership elections until lawmakers can examine the party’s election losses and debate its future direction.

Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson has threatened to walk out of the leadership election if Republicans proceed without first holding that discussion.

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