{"id":2384673,"date":"2024-12-30T11:07:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T16:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/victoria-spartz-not-committed-to-vote-mike-johnson-as-speaker\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T11:07:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T16:07:50","slug":"victoria-spartz-not-committed-to-vote-mike-johnson-as-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/victoria-spartz-not-committed-to-vote-mike-johnson-as-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Spartz not committed to vote Mike Johnson as speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvictoria-spartz-not-committed-to-vote-mike-johnson-as-speaker%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2384673&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">provided text includes<\/a> a button labeled &#8220;Read \u2062more&#8230;&#8221; that, \u200cwhen\u200c clicked, is intended\u2064 to\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-propose-renaming-dc-airport-after-trump\/\" title=\"House Republicans suggest renaming Washington, D.C. airport in honor of Trump\">reveal additional \u2062content<\/a>. 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Victoria Spartz (R-IN) said <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Mike Johnson<\/a> (R-LA) has yet to earn her vote for <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/speaker-of-the-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">House speaker <\/a>because he is &ldquo;not able to govern.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>A possible defection from Spartz comes as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/republican-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Republican Party<\/a> has a scant one-vote majority in the House. The new Congress will have its first day of session on Jan. 3, 2025, when a speaker election is also anticipated. A speaker will be needed to certify the 2024 election results on Jan. 6 ahead of President-elect Donald Trump&rsquo;s inauguration on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Speaker Johnson is not able to govern and is not actually willing to commit to do his constitutional duty. I&rsquo;m not asking him to do anything beyond what the Constitution asks,&rdquo; Spartz said Monday on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>Fox &amp; Friends<\/em>. &ldquo;We have Titanic on the crash course with the iceberg. And our country fiscally is going to have a disaster. This is the fault of Congress. This is constitutional duty, if he&rsquo;s not willing to do it, then he&rsquo;s not willing to be a speaker.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2738904&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=38c4e56e12f5c00c9369f81c78e24754\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spartz did not name any replacements for Johnson that she would support. 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