Speaker Steve Montenegro shares Republicans' goals for 2025

Steve Montenegro is not new to the Capitol — he served eight years
in the Legislature before an unsuccessful run for Congress in 2018.
In 2022, he returned to state politics when he was elected to
represent Legislative District 29 along with fellow Republican
Austin Smith. At the end of last year, Republicans elected
Montenegro as the new speaker of the House of Representatives for
the next session. A native of El Salvador, Montenegro is the first
Latino to lead the 60-member House. He won the seat after serving
just two years, which sets him up for a chance to serve as speaker
for three consecutive terms — a rarity in the fast-moving world of
legislative term limits and politics. This week on The Gaggle,
a politics podcast by The Arizona Republic and
azcentral.com, hosts Ron Hansen and Mary Jo
Pitzl sit down with Montenegro at the beginning of his term as
speaker. Together they discuss how his immigration background
influences him, unifying the Republican party in Arizona, and his
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