'Most disappointing member': Colleagues skewer Speaker Johnson as House closes -- again

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/mike-johnson/
"WASHINGTON — The federal government may be open, but the House of Representatives is closed for business. Again.

The record-shattering 43-day-long shutdown coincided with an impromptu 53-day vacation for House Republicans.

To end the shutdown, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had to call the House back in session. He did. For roughly eight hours Wednesday. Then he gave House members the rest of the week off.

“What do you make of Speaker Johnson?” Raw Story asked Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA). “You guys have just been gone for, like, more than a month, but you guys are just here for one day and then you're gone?”
He's the most disappointing member of the U.S. Congress,” Beyer said,just off the Capitol steps Wednesday. “There was the opportunity to do a lot of other work that needs to be done in committee after committee, and that didn't get done.”

Instead of making up for lots of lost time, Congress still intends to take off the full weeks around Thanksgiving and Christmas.

That means there are only four more legislative weeks in the year. And when the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, the 2026 midterm elections formally begin, which historically has meant an end to most legislating in Washington."