WASHINGTON -- Mike Johnson is the speaker of a House that is no longer in session.

The Republican leader sent lawmakers home three weeks ago after the House approved a bill to fund the federal government. And they haven't been back in working session since.

In the intervening weeks, the government has shut down. President Donald Trump threatened a mass firing of federal workers. And a Democrat, Adelita Grijalva, won a special election in Arizona but has not been sworn into office to take her seat in Congress.

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"People are upset. I'm upset. I'm a very patient man, but I am angry right now," Johnson said during one of his almost daily press conferences on the empty side of the Capitol.

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