“I realize the voters elected President Obama in 2012, but they also, in 2014, elected enough Republican senators to gain a majority in the Senate, so we control the confirmation process. And these are two supposedly coequal branches of government involved in this filling of a Supreme Court vacancy.”

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About Ron Johnson

American businessman and politician

Ronald Harold Johnson is an American businessman and politician. Born in 1955, he has served as the senior United States senator from Wisconsin since 2011. A Republican, he first won election to the Senate in 2010, defeating incumbent Democrat Russ Feingold. Johnson had led a plastics manufacturing company in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, before entering politics. He later won rematches against Feingold in 2016 and against Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes in 2022, extending his long tenure in the Senate.

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