Johnson To GOP Reps: No Heckling Biden During SOTU

Axios reports:

House Republican leadership is trying to tamp down on a potential repeat of the chronic heckling that engulfed last year’s State of the Union, Axios has learned.

The effort by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to rein in his members underlines how much politics have changed since 2009, when the House passed a resolution of disapproval against Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) for disrupting then-President Obama’s speech.

The chaos rose to a new level under President Biden, with Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) loudly heckling him throughout his speech in 2022. Last year, the heckling reached a fever pitch, with Biden even playing call and response with Republicans on entitlements.

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