{"id":22039,"date":"2026-04-29T23:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-vote-hits-2-hour-mark-amid-revolts\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T23:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:47:07","slug":"house-vote-hits-2-hour-mark-amid-revolts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-vote-hits-2-hour-mark-amid-revolts\/","title":{"rendered":"House vote hits 2-hour mark amid revolts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/242539\" data-person-id=\"242539\">Mike Johnson<\/a> is fighting multiple separate revolts within his party while the vote on the Senate-backed budget resolution has been held open for nearly two hours.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has spent Wednesday trying to push a series of legislative priorities through his chamber, including the farm bill as well as the budget framework, which would set up a path for funding immigration enforcement amid a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>Midwest and farm-state Republicans have so far withheld their votes for the budget measure in a revolt over Johnson agreeing to decouple a measure from the farm bill that would have allowed year-round sales of E15\u2014an ethanol-gasoline blend.<\/p>\n<p>A large huddle of lawmakers on the floor with Johnson erupted in yelling at the speaker before he moved the meeting off the floor and out of earshot of reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFarm people want a farm vote. And corn-belt people want [renewable fuel standard] changes. So we\u2019re trying to work through it,\u201d House Budget Chair <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/259549\" data-person-id=\"259549\">Jodey Arrington<\/a> (R-Texas) explained. Those issues are not directly related to the budget resolution currently on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>A separate group, made up of GOP hard-liners and rallied by Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/3265\" data-person-id=\"3265\">Chip Roy<\/a> (R-Texas), stayed on the floor, arguing loudly with leadership staff and Arrington and racking up votes against the budget plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re gonna have a big family meeting in here. We&#8217;ll get everybody on the same page,\u201d Johnson told reporters as both groups eventually gathered in his office.<\/p>\n<p>The House chamber emptied of lawmakers and the clock continued to tick up on the open vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s the best way to have \u2014 get people to negotiate,\u201d Johnson said of the open vote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson is fighting multiple separate revolts within his party while the vote on the Senate-backed budget resolution has been held open for nearly two hours. Johnson has spent Wednesday trying to push a series of legislative priorities through his chamber, including the farm bill as well as the budget framework, which would set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}