Not even 24 hours on the job yet and new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is already responding to a major crisis on Thursday by introducing a massive, comprehensive prayer package to address gun violence in the wake of the horrific shooting rampage by right wing militia member and mental patient Robert Card in Lewiston, Maine on Wednesday night, CNN’s Manu Raju reports.
“This is a dark time in America… Prayer is appropriate in a time like this, that the evil can end and this senseless violence can stop,” Johnson said in the Capitol to reporters who asked what kind of action Americans could expect from the House now led by the devout Christian Louisianan.