.Speaker Mike Johnson just approached Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 on the House floor and the two are talking now.

Congress is about to hold a joint meeting for an address from Japanese PM Fumio Kishida.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will address a Joint Meeting of Congress this morning.

Last foreign leader to address a joint meeting was Israeli President Isaac Herzog on July 19, 2023. The only previous Japanese PM to address Congress was Shinzo Abe on April 29, 2015.

'I'll just say that it's never helpful for the majority party to take down its own rules,' Speaker Mike Johnson says to reporters per Julie Tsirkin. 'And what it does ultimately, of course, is it weakens our hand in negotiations with the Senate and the White House.'

Just asked Speaker Mike Johnson what the focus of this will be. “You’ll have to see,” he said. “I look forward to going down there.”

Asked to elaborate on the election integrity theme, he said it has to do with “free and fair elections.”

NEW: House Speaker Mike Johnson will travel to Mar A Lago Friday for remarks on “election integrity” with former President Donald Trump, two sources directly familiar with the plans confirms to me & Jonathan Allen. Confirming CNN.

FISA FIGHT: House Republicans are in open revolt once again, fighting over a key surveillance tool

A handful of Rs are vowing to block Section 702 renewal on the floor

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.Speaker Mike Johnson will meet w/ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 today.

'I've always considered her friend,' he said. 'Marjorie and I don't disagree I don't think on any matter of philosophy. We're both conservatives, you know, but we do disagree sometimes on strategy.'

Families of 9/11 victims sent a letter to Speaker Johnson urging Congress to reauthorize Section 702 of FISA, according to a copy of the letter obtained by NBC News.
 
The letter, from 9/11 Families United, was circulated inside the House GOP conference meeting this morning.

Via Ali Vitali: The House will delay sending articles of impeachment against DHS Sec. Mayorkas to the Senate until next week to 'ensure the Senate has adequate time to perform its constitutional duty,' Speaker Mike Johnson spokesperson Taylor Haulsee says.

On this day in 1865: The Civil War came to a symbolic end when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia.

Lee met with Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the McLean house in Appomattox to discuss the surrender terms.
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Republican Rep. Juan Ciscomani calls the AZ abortion ruling a 'disaster for women and providers.'

Statue of Freedom, the crowning feature of the Dome of the U.S. Capitol