Speaker of the House

That belief lasted long after the Evil Empire was defeated, with the likes of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich lambasting the "Rogue State Department" in an essay for Foreign Policy back in 2003, writing, "anti-American sentiment is rising unabated around the globe because the U.S. State Department has abdicated values and principles in favor of accommodation and passivity."

Chakrabarti is currently running in California’s 11th District, which has been represented by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the former speaker of the House, for the past 37 years.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and several congressional members of the GOP were present Wednesday in the Rose Garden.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., once famously said that, to understand his "worldview," all one needs to do is "pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it."

Finally, not to be outdone with his members’ attacks on individual jurists, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson raised the possibility of defunding or eliminating U.S. federal district courts altogether, telling assembled reporters on Tuesday: “We do have authority over the federal courts, as you know. We can—we can eliminate an entire district court. We have power of funding over the courts, and all these other things. But, um, desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act.”