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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromOhio's4th district | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office January 3, 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Mike Oxley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chair of theHouse Judiciary Committee | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office January 3, 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Jerry Nadler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Member of theOhio Senate from the12th district | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office January 3, 2001 – December 31, 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Robert R. Cupp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Keith Faber | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of theOhio House of Representatives from the 85th district | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office January 3, 1995 – December 31, 2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Jim Davis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Derrick Seaver | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | James Daniel Jordan (1964-02-17)February 17, 1964 (age 61) Troy, Ohio, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Republican | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Children | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | University of Wisconsin, Madison (BS) Ohio State University (MA) Capital University (JD) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Awards | Presidential Medal of Freedom (2021) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | House website Campaign website | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jordan honorsNeil Armstrong on the 50th anniversary of theApollo 11 moon landing. Recorded July 18, 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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James Daniel Jordan (born February 17, 1964) is an American politician who has served in theU.S. House of Representatives as the representative forOhio's 4th congressional district since 2007. Currently in his 10th term in the House, Jordan is a member of theRepublican Party.
Jordan is a two-timeNCAA national championwrestler and a former college wrestling coach. In Congress, Jordan helped start theright-wing populistHouse Freedom Caucus, serving as its first chair from 2015 to 2017, and as its vice chair since 2017. Jordan was a prominent critic ofSpeaker of the HouseJohn Boehner, who resigned under Freedom Caucus pressure in 2015.[1][2] He was theranking member of theHouse Oversight Committee from 2019 to 2020, when he left to become the ranking member of theHouse Judiciary Committee, of which he became chair in 2023.
Described by media sources as afar-right politician,[3][4][5] Jordan is a close ally of PresidentDonald Trump. During Trump's first presidency, Jordan sought to discredit investigations intoRussian interference in the2016 election and staged a sit-in to prevent aTrump impeachment inquiry hearing over theTrump–Zelenskyy telephone controversy. AfterJoe Biden won the2020 presidential election andTrump tried to overturn the election, Jordan supported lawsuits to challenge the election results and voted not to certify theElectoral College results. He refused to cooperate with theU.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, which subpoenaed him on May 12, 2022.[6][7]
Jordan, who opposedKevin McCarthy during his failed bid to succeed Boehner asspeaker in 2015,[8] later became one of McCarthy's closest allies; Jordan supported McCarthy during theJanuary 2023 Speaker of the House election.[9] After McCarthy wasremoved as speaker, Jordan stood in theOctober 2023 election to replace him. He became the second nominee of theHouse Republican Conference afterSteve Scalise withdrew, but failed to win the speakership in three rounds of voting and withdrew his nomination.[10]
Jordan was born inTroy, Ohio, the son of Shirley and John Jordan, and raised inChampaign County, Ohio.[11] He attended and wrestled forGraham High School, graduating in 1982.[12] He won state championships all four years he was in high school and compiled a 156–1 win–loss record.[13]
After high school, Jordan went to theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison, where he became a two-timeNCAADivision Iwrestling champion.[14] Jordan won the 1985 and 1986 NCAA championship matches in the 134-pound (61 kg) weight class, defeating future multi time World and Olympic championJohn Smith in the former.[15][16] He lost the 126–137-pound (57–62 kg) featherweight semifinal match at the 1988 US Olympic wrestling trials against Smith, failing to qualify for the Olympic team infreestyle wrestling.[17] Jordan graduated from Wisconsin in 1986 with abachelor's degree ineconomics.[18]
Jordan later earned amaster's degree ineducation fromOhio State University and received aJuris Doctor degree from theCapital University Law School in 2001.[19][20][21][22] In a 2018 interview, Jordan said he never took thebar examination.[23]
Jordan was an assistant coach with Ohio State University'swrestling program from 1987 to 1995.[24]
Richard Strauss was the wrestling team physician during Jordan's tenure. Strauss died by suicide in 2005.[25] In April 2018, Ohio State University began an independent investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by Strauss.[26][27][28] The report concluded that Strauss had committed sexual abuse against 177 student-patients.[29]: 37–38 [30] The majority of abuse (143 victims) was categorized as genital fondling associated with medically unnecessary genital or rectal examinations.[29]: 41 Of the 177, 153 were student-athletes, of which a plurality (48) were members of the men's wrestling team.[29]: 43
Several involved persons have stated that Jordan surely knew of Strauss's criminal misconduct but did not report it.[31][32][17] While at least one victim has named Jordan as knowledgable of accusations against Strauss, Head Coach Russ Hellickson said he may not have known about the abuse.[33] A spokesperson for Jordan denied the allegation, saying that Jordan "never saw or heard of any abuse, and if he had, he would have dealt with it".[34] No wrestlers have accused Jordan himself of sexual misconduct, but four former wrestlers named him as a defendant in a lawsuit against the university.[35][36][37] Jordan has denied any wrongdoing and has described his accusers as "pawns in a political plot".[38]
Jordan was elected to theOhio House of Representatives in 1994[39] and represented the 85th Ohio House district for three terms.
In 2000, Jordan was elected to theOhio Senate over independent candidate Jack Kaffenberger with 88% of the vote. In 2004, Jordan defeated Kaffenberger again, with 79% of the vote.
Jordan representsOhio's 4th congressional district, a primarily urban district, which includesLima,Mansfield,Marysville, andMarion, and parts ofColumbus.
Jordan first ran for Congress in2006, where he won the Republican primary for the 4th district after 26-year incumbentMike Oxley announced his retirement. Jordan defeated Democratic nominee Rick Siferd in the general election with 60% of the vote.[40]
Jordan was reelected in2008, defeating Democratic nominee Mike Carroll with 65% of the vote.[41] In 2010, he was again reelected, defeating Democrat Doug Litt and Libertarian Donald Kissick with 71% of the vote.[40] Jordan was reelected in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2024.[42]
Jordan chaired theRepublican Study Committee[43] during the 112th Congress,[44] while turning down a position on theAppropriations Committee.[45] During the2013 US government shutdown, he was described byRolling Stone as the committee's most powerful member.[46] That group was the primary proponent and executor of the Republican congressional strategy to bring about a government shutdown in order to force changes in thePatient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.[46]
Jordan received a vote forSpeaker of the United States House of Representatives in the113th Congress from a fellow right-wing conservative,Tea Party Caucus chairmanTim Huelskamp. Jordan received two votes for Speaker during the114th Congress.[47] On July 26, 2018, he announced his bid for Speaker afterPaul Ryan retired;[48] his campaign ended whenDemocrats took the majority in the House.[48] Subsequently, Jordan campaigned forHouse minority leader. Former Ohio state representativeCapri Cafaro said that Jordan "is someone who has built a reputation as an attack dog, someone who is media savvy, someone who is a stalwart supporter of the president and who has the skill necessary to take the lead for the GOP".[49] He lost his bid toKevin McCarthy in a 159–43 vote.[50][51] In 2023, Jordan returned to consideration for the speakership after McCarthy failed to win it after three rounds of voting.[52] And in October of the same year, he briefly held the GOP nomination for speaker.
Jordan was the ranking member of theHouse Oversight Committee from January 2019 to June 2020, with a brief interlude in March 2020.[a] He was replaced byJames Comer.[55]
Jordan's district has been redrawn over time to minimize urban area (such asToledo,Columbus orCleveland) and increase rural area; it now stretches fromLake Erie nearly toDayton. In May 2019, a three-judge federal panel ruled Ohio's congressional district map unconstitutional due to partisangerrymandering and ordered Ohio to create a new map in time for the 2020 election. But after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled inRucho v. Common Cause that courts could not review allegations of gerrymandering, the district boundaries were not to change until maps were redrawn in 2022.[56]
In December 2021, theHouse Select Committee on the January 6 Attack released the partial contents of a text message an unnamed lawmaker sent to White House chief of staffMark Meadows before the scheduled final certification of presidential electors on January 6, 2021. The excerpt read: "On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all the electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all." The day after the release, Jordan acknowledged sending the message, but said he had merely forwarded it after receiving it from attorneyJoseph Schmitz.[57] Both Jordan and Meadows asserted that the committee had altered the context of the excerpt by misplacing a period.[58]
During the 114th Congress, Jordan and eight other members of Congress founded the HouseFreedom Caucus, a bloc of conservatives working "to advance an agenda of limited constitutional government" in Congress.[59] He served as the group's first chair.[60] The caucus was ultimately credited with pushing SpeakerJohn Boehner into retirement.[49]
As of 2023, Jordan, who has served in the House of Representatives for over 16 years, has never sponsored a bill that later became law.[61]
On May 2, 2014, Jordan introducedHouse Resolution 565, "Calling on Attorney GeneralEric H. Holder, Jr., to appoint a special counsel to investigate the targeting of conservative nonprofit groups by theInternal Revenue Service". It passed on May 7, 2014.[62] Holder, who had previously been found to be in contempt of Congress, failed to appoint a special counsel to investigate the alleged procedural abuses of IRS employees, including Lois Lerner.
In March 2017, Jordan criticized the newly introducedAmerican Health Care Act, the Republican replacement bill for thePatient Protection and Affordable Care Act, calling it an unacceptable form of "Obamacare Lite".[63] On May 4, 2017, he voted to pass a revised version of the legislation.[64][65]
On June 13, 2018, Jordan and RepresentativeMark Meadows filed a resolution to compel the Department of Justice to provide certain documents to Congress relating to the ongoing congressional investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 election. The resolution asserted that the DOJ was stonewalling congressional oversight and sought to give the DOJ seven days from its enactment to turn over documents related to both Deputy Attorney GeneralRod Rosenstein's appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller as well as various decisions made by the FBI during the 2016 presidential election. Jordan issued a press release that stated:
This resolution gives the DOJ seven days to turn over the documents that they owe Congress. Rod Rosenstein threatened congressional staff. When the bully picks on your little brother, you have to respond. It's time for House Leadership to stand up and pass this resolution.[66]
On July 25, 2018, Jordan and Meadows introduced articles of impeachment against Rosenstein, whom they accused of "intentionally withholding embarrassing documents and information, knowingly hiding material investigative information from Congress, various abuses of theFISA process, and failure to comply with congressional subpoenas". Jordan stated that impeachment was necessary because:
The DOJ is keeping information from Congress. Enough is enough. It's time to hold Mr. Rosenstein accountable for blocking Congress's constitutional oversight role.[67][68]
Jordan and RepresentativeWarren Davidson were the only members of Ohio's congressional delegation and two of 60 members of Congress to vote in October 2019 against a bipartisan resolution that passed the House 354–60 condemning Trump's unilateral withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Syria.[69][70][71]
Despite his support forKevin McCarthy in the2023 Speaker of the House of Representatives election, including nominating McCarthy on the second ballot, Jordan was nominated on the second ballot by RepresentativeMatt Gaetz. He received 19 votes, enough to deny McCarthy the speakership in the second round.[72] Jordan was nominated again on the third ballot byChip Roy.[73] He won 20 votes in the third ballot, withByron Donalds switching from McCarthy to Jordan. This was enough to necessitate a fourth ballot, but Jordan got no votes on ballots 4 through 11, as all his supporters switched to Donalds. On the 12th ballot, Gaetz nominated Jordan again. He received four votes, enough to necessitate a 13th ballot when combined with the three forKevin Hern. He was not nominated on the 13th or 14th ballot, but received six and two votes on each, respectively.
After the Houseremoved McCarthy from the speakership on October 3, 2023, Jordan launcheda bid for the speakership.[74][75] His speakership bid was endorsed by Donald Trump.[76][77] On October 11, Jordan was defeated bySteve Scalise for the Republican nomination for the speakership. However, after Scalise withdrew a day later after failing to consolidate the necessary votes, Jordan launched a second bid for the speakership and defeatedAustin Scott for the Republican nomination.[78][79] Jordan subsequently failed to win the speakership in the first two rounds of the House vote, garnering only 200 of the 217 votes needed to win in the first vote[80] and only 199 votes in the second.[81] A third round of voting occurred on October 20, 2023, where he garnered only 194 votes of the 217 votes needed to win in the third round.[82][83] Following his third defeat, Jordan intended to continue his bid for the speakership, but instead was subsequently removed from his position as Speaker-designate by his Republican colleagues in a secret ballot.[10]
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According toThe Dayton Daily News, Jordan "is known for being one of Congress' most conservative members".[91]
Jordan has earned a perfect score from theAmerican Conservative Union.[92] He has voted consistently foranti-abortion legislation and was endorsed byOhio Right to Life in 2012.[93] During the112th Congress, he was one of 40 "staunch" members of theRepublican Study Committee who frequently voted against Republican party leadership and vocally expressed displeasure with House bills.[94]
Jordan was a leading critic of PresidentBarack Obama'sHome Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) program, advocating for its shutdown.[95]
Jordan has supported the continued production and upgrades ofM1 Abrams tanks in his district.[96]
Jordan, along with all other Senate and House Republicans, voted against theAmerican Rescue Plan Act of 2021.[97]
Jordan has been a stalwart supporter[98] and close ally ofTrump.[99] Asked byAnderson Cooper in April 2018 whether he had ever heard Trump tell a lie, Jordan said "I have not" and "nothing comes to mind".[100] He also said, "I don't know that [Trump has ever] said something wrong that he needs to apologize for."[101]
In December 2017, Jordan sought to discredit theFBI and Special CounselRobert Mueller'sinvestigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.[102] He questioned Mueller's impartiality, and called on Deputy Attorney GeneralRod J. Rosenstein to use his authority to disband Mueller's investigation or create a second special counsel to simultaneously investigate Mueller himself.[102] Rosenstein rejected the request, saying that he could not appoint another special counsel as there was no credible allegation of a potential crime.[102]The New York Times reported that Republicans were increasingly criticizing Mueller's investigation after it "delivered a series of indictments to high-profile associates of the president and evidence that at least two of them are cooperating with the inquiry".[102]
In July 2018, Jordan led efforts to impeach Rosenstein as a way to shut down Mueller's investigation.[103] During a hearing on July 12, 2018, Jordan repeatedly interrupted FBI agentPeter Strzok while Strzok tried to explain that he couldn't answer specific questions to preserve the confidentiality of an ongoing investigation. Democrats protested Jordan's behavior and urged their fellow representatives to allow Strzok to respond. They also objected to Jordan's exceeding his allowed time for questioning.House Judiciary Committee chairmanBob Goodlatte admonished Jordan for his repeated interruptions of the witness.[104]
In July 2018, Jordan andMark Meadows called on theDepartment of Justice to "review allegations that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein threatened to subpoena phone records and documents from a House Intelligence Committee staffer". In their written request, the two wrote that in his use of investigative powers, Rosenstein had retaliated "against rank-and-file (congressional) staff members", thereby abusing his authority.[105] ToJohn Catsimatidis onWNYM, Jordan said he would force a vote on Rosenstein's impeachment if the DOJ did not deliver documents Congress requested.[106]
In March 2019, House Judiciary chairJerrold Nadler criticized Jordan for allegedly usinganti-Semitic messaging by spelling the name of the 2020 presidential candidateTom Steyer, whose father isJewish, with a "$" in place of an "S" onTwitter,[107] while urging Nadler to resist calls for Trump's impeachment.[108][109][110]
During Mueller's testimony to two congressional committees on July 24, 2019, Jordan asked Mueller why he never chargedJoseph Mifsud withlying to the FBI whileGeorge Papadopoulos was charged for lying about Mifsud. Jordan said: "Mifsud is the guy who told Papadopoulos [about Russian dirt]. He was the guy who started it all. Yet when the FBI interviews him, he lies three times; you don't charge him." Mueller responded, "Well, I can't get into it and it's obvious, I think, that we can't get into charging decisions."[111]
On October 23, 2019, Jordan and two dozen other Republicans staged a protest that delayed aTrump impeachment inquiry hearing. The coordinated action disrupted theUnited States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence where Republican and Democratic congressional members planned to take testimony from Deputy Assistant Secretary of DefenseLaura Cooper.[112] The group staged asit-in outside theSensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) hearing room.[113][114] Some of the Republicans who participated already had access to the hearings since the members of the House Oversight, Intelligence and Foreign Affairs committees were welcome to attend and ask questions.[115]
Describing the sit-in, Jordan said, "The members have just had it, and they want to be able to see and represent their constituents and find out what's going on."[114] The next day, he said onFox News, "Adam Schiff is doing this unfair, partisan process in secret and our members finally said, 'Enough'... We're so frustrated. They reached a boiling point and these guys marched in and said 'we want to know what's going on.'"[116]
House Homeland Security Committee ChairmanBennie Thompson wrote to the Housesergeant-at-arms about Jordan, RepresentativeBradley Byrne, and others, requesting that he take action regarding their "unprecedented breach of security". SenatorLindsey Graham admonished his House colleagues for their tactic, calling them "nuts" for having made a "run on the SCIF".[116][114][117][118]
As the ranking member of theHouse Judiciary Committee, during a July 2020 hearing with Attorney GeneralBill Barr, Jordan presented a video montage showing CNN reporters describing violent protests as "mostly peaceful". CNN host Jake Tapper claimed that the statements by the CNN reporters in the video shown by Jordan had been taken out of context.[119]
In December 2020, Jordan was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign anamicus brief in support ofTexas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at theUnited States Supreme Court contesting the results of the2020 presidential election, in whichJoe Biden defeated[120] Trump. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case on the basis that Texas lackedstanding underArticle III of the Constitution to challenge the results of an election held by another state.[121][122][123]House SpeakerNancy Pelosi issued a statement that called signing the amicus brief an act of "election subversion" and an attempt to "subvert the Constitution and undermine public trust in our sacred democratic institutions."[124][125][114] New Jersey RepresentativeBill Pascrell, citing section three of the14th Amendment, called for Pelosi to not seat Jordan and otheramicus brief signers, arguing that they had tried to "overturn a democratic election and install a dictator", while "the 14th Amendment expressly forbids Members of Congress from engaging in rebellion against the United States".[126]
When the Supreme Court in October 2020 permitted counting Pennsylvania mail-in ballots collected three days after the 2020 election, Jordan declared: "Democrats are trying to steal the election, after the election."[127] In December 2020, Jordan said: "I don't know how you can ever convince me that President Trump didn't actually win this" 2020 election.[127] On January 5, 2021, Jordan alleged: "There was fraud on top of the unconstitutional way they ran the election [withpandemic voting laws] … they added fraud on top of it … And that's why President Trump wasn't elected president".[128][129] On January 12, 2021, Jordan claimed: "I've never said that this election was stolen".[127]
On January 6–7, 2021, Jordan cast a vote to prevent the certification of theElectoral College in at least one state.[130] He was one of the 139 representatives who voted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Congress on January 7, 2021, the day after thestorming of the Capitol.[131] At a later virtual committee meeting, Jordan said the storming of the Capitol "was as wrong as wrong can be".[132]
On January 11, 2021, Trump awarded Jordan thePresidential Medal of Freedom in a closed-door ceremony.[133]
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Trump chief of staffMark Meadows, testified before theHouse Select Committee on the January 6 Attack that Jordan had talked to the White House about presidential pardons for Republican members of Congress who participated inattempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election.[134]
As chairman of theHouse Judiciary Committee, Jordan has led oversight investigations into FBI activities. In February 2023, Jordan launched an investigation into theFBI Richmond Catholic memo, which characterized "radical traditionalist Catholics" as potential domestic violent extremists. After the FBI provided only 18 heavily redacted pages in response to initial requests, Jordan issued a subpoena to DirectorChristopher A. Wray in April 2023.[135] The committee's December 2023 report alleged the memo's scope extended beyond a single field office, contradicting Wray's testimony.[136] Jordan's committee also conducted oversight of theArctic Frost investigation, Special CounselJack Smith's investigation into individuals connected to the January 6 Capitol attack.[137]
Jordan has critiqued "Big Tech" companies,[138] though he opposes proposals to break up these companies throughantitrust enforcement.[139]
Google has contributed money to his political campaign since 2012, including $10,000 in 2020.[140]Tucker Carlson criticized Jordan for accepting donations from Google.[141]
In 2023, Jordan refused to makeKen Buck the chairman of theSubcommittee on Antitrust, despite Buck being the most senior Republican on the committee and a proponent of antitrust enforcement.[142] Conservatives criticized Jordan for this decision.[143]
As chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jordan is heading a legal campaign against researchers at universities, think tanks and private companies that studydisinformation. Those affected include theStanford Internet Observatory atStanford University, theUniversity of Washington, theAtlantic Council'sDigital Forensic Research Lab and the social media analytics firmGraphika.Since January 2023, when Republicans gained a majority in the House, the House Judiciary Committee has sent letters, subpoenas, and threats of legal action to researchers, demanding notes, emails and other records from researchers and even student interns, dating back to 2015.
Projects affected include theElection Integrity Partnership, formed to identify attempts "to suppress voting, reduce participation, confuse voters or delegitimize election results without evidence"[144] and theVirality Project, which has examined the spread of false claims about vaccines. Jordan claims that such organizations worked with the government to censor conservative speech online. Although research groups may have reported problematic content, "no evidence has emerged that government officials coerced the companies to take action against accounts".[144] Researchers argue that they haveacademic freedom to study social media and disinformation as well asfreedom of speech to report their results.[144][145][146]
Previous research has indicated that sharing of disinformation and propaganda within the United States has been associated with the development of increasingly "partisan" media, appearing most strongly in right-wing sources such asBreitbart,The Daily Caller, andFox News.[147]The actions of Jordan and the House Judiciary Committee have been described by their opponents as an "attempt to chill research",[144] creating a "chilling effect"[145] through increased time demands, legal costs and online harassment of researchers.[144][145]
Jordan opposes theAffordable Care Act, calling for it to be repealed.[148] He opposes vaccine requirements, describing them as "un-American".[149]
Since coming into office, Jordan has voted in opposition to efforts to liberalize federal marijuana policy.[150] Jordan supports the permanent classification of "fentanyl-related substances" asSchedule I drugs under the Controlled Substances Act.[151] In 2017, Jordan argued that "the most beneficial things can be done at a local level" in responding to theopioid epidemic.[152]
In July 2008, Jordan was the first member of Congress to sign the "No Climate Tax" pledge drafted by the conservative political advocacy groupAmericans for Prosperity.[153]
In Congress, Jordan voted to open theOuter Continental Shelf to oil drilling, prevent theEPA from regulatinggreenhouse gases, and bar greenhouse gases fromClean Air Act rules. He voted against enforcing limits oncarbon dioxideglobal warming pollution, tax credits for renewable electricity, tax incentives forrenewable energy and energy conservation, and curtailing subsidies for oil and gas company exploration.[154]
Jordan opposes abortion,[155] and supports banning federal funding toPlanned Parenthood.[156]
On July 12, 2022, Jordan tweeted toThe Washington Examiner thata report of a 10-year-old Ohio girl traveling to Indiana to obtain a legal abortion after being raped was a lie. He deleted the tweet on July 13 after the rapist was arrested by police and confessed to raping the girl twice, and police confirmed that the report of her abortion in Indiana was accurate.[157]
While serving in the Ohio Senate, Jordan supported the Tax and Expenditure Limitation Amendment, a state constitutional amendment that would require a vote of the people to raise taxes or increase spending over certain limits.[158]
Jordan was among 60 Republicans to oppose condemningTrump's action of withdrawing forces from Syria.[159] According toThe American Conservative, along withMatt Gaetz and a handful of Republicans, he broke with the party and voted to end Saudi assistance to thewar in Yemen.[160][better source needed]
In June 2021, Jordan was one of 49 House Republicans to vote to repeal theAUMF againstIraq.[161][162] In 2023, Jordan was among 47 Republicans to vote in favor of H.Con.Res. 21 which directed PresidentJoe Biden to remove U.S. troops fromSyria within 180 days.[163][164]
Since the onset of the 2022Russian invasion of Ukraine, Jordan has reportedly voted in opposition to almost all bills to provide military assistance to Ukraine.[165][166][167]
Jordan endorsed providing aid toIsrael in the wake of theGaza war.[168]
In 2015, Jordan cosponsored a resolution toamend the US constitution to ban same-sex marriage.[169] Jordan condemned the Supreme Court ruling inObergefell v. Hodges, which held thatsame-sex marriage bans violated the Constitution.[170]
Jordan voted againstHonoring our PACT Act of 2022, an act which expandedVA benefits to veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during their military service.[171]
Jordan supportedprotests in April 2020 that opposed government lockdowns intended to curb the spread of theCOVID-19 pandemic in the United States.[172] Jordan opposesvaccine mandates, calling them "un-American".[173] Jordan criticizedAnthony Fauci during congressional hearings over his pandemic policy recommendations, and in 2021 called on Fauci to resign.[174][175][176] In December 2021, when the mortality toll from COVID-19 in the United States averaged 1,659 deaths per day, Jordan declared that "Real America is done with COVID-19. The only people who don't understand that are Fauci and Biden."[177][178] In 2023, Jordan invited activistRobert F. Kennedy Jr., who opposed Covid vaccine mandates, to testify before Congress about alleged censorship of his opinions on social media. Jordan defended a tweet by Kennedy which implied thatHank Aaron, who died in 2021 of natural causes, had died due to Aaron being administered theCOVID-19 vaccine. Jordan said Kennedy's tweet was not "factually inaccurate. Hank Aaron, real person, great American, passed away after he got the vaccine. Pointing out, just pointing out facts."[179][180]
Jordan and his wife, Polly, live nearUrbana, Ohio, in centralChampaign County. They were introduced by her brothers, with whom Jordan competed in wrestling.[181] Polly and Jordan started dating when he was 13 and she was 14. They have four children and two grandchildren.[182] Jordan's son-in-law,Jarrod Uthoff, is a professional basketball player.[183]
U.S. House of Representatives, Ohio 4th District
2008 – defeated Mike Carroll.
2010 – defeated Doug Litt (D) and Donald Kissick (L).
2012 – defeated Jim Slone (D) and Chris Kalla (L).
2014 – defeated Janet Garrett (D).
2016 – defeated Janet Garrett (D).
2018 – defeated Janet Garrett (D).
2020 – defeated Shannon Freshour (D) and Steve Perkins (L).
2022 - defeated Tamie Wilson (D).
2024 - defeated Tamie Wilson (D).
| Election results of Jim Jordan[184] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Office | Election | Party | Votes | % | Opponent | Party | Votes | % | Opponent | Party | Votes | % | |||
| 1998 | Ohio House of Representatives | General | R | 23,763 | 68.36% | Robert Burns | D | 10,999 | 31.64% | |||||||
| 2000 | Ohio Senate | General | R | 99,803 | 76.94% | Jack Kaffenberger Sr. | I | 15,545 | 11.98% | Debra Mitchell | NL | 14,373 | 11.08% | |||
| 2004 | Ohio Senate | General | R | 118,193 | 79.27% | Jack Kaffenberger Sr. | I | 30,902 | 20.73% | |||||||
| 2006 | U.S. House of Representatives | General | R | 129,958 | 59.99% | Richard E. Siferd | D | 86,678 | 40.01% | |||||||
| 2008 | U.S. House of Representatives | General | R | 186,154 | 65.17% | Mike Carroll | D | 99,499 | 34.83% | |||||||
| 2010 | U.S. House of Representatives | General | R | 146,029 | 71.49% | Doug Litt | D | 50,533 | 24.74% | Donald Kissick | L | 7,708 | 3.77% | |||
| 2012 | U.S. House of Representatives | General | R | 182,643 | 58.35% | Jim Slone | D | 114,214 | 36.49% | Chris Kalla | L | 16,141 | 5.16% | |||
| 2014 | U.S. House of Representatives | General | R | 125,907 | 67.67% | Janet Garrett | D | 60,165 | 32.33% | |||||||
| 2016 | U.S. House of Representatives | General | R | 210,227 | 67.99% | Janet Garrett | D | 98,981 | 32.01% | |||||||
| 2018 | U.S. House of Representatives | General | R | 164,640 | 65.41% | Janet Garrett | D | 87,061 | 34.59% | |||||||
| 2020 | U.S. House of Representatives | General | R | 235,875 | 67.85% | Shannon Freshour | D | 101,897 | 29.31% | Steve Perkins | L | 9,854 | 2.83% | |||
| 2022 | U.S. House of Representatives | General | R | 200,773 | 69.2% | Tamie Wilson | D | 89,383 | 30.8% | |||||||
| 2024 | U.S. House of Representatives | General | R | 192,767 | 67.3% | Tamie Wilson | D | 93,672 | 32.7% | |||||||
Career History: ... Assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University (OSU) (1987–1995) ... After graduating in 1986, Jordan returned to his home state to work as an assistant wrestling coach at OSU for nine years.
Former Ohio State wrestler Mike DiSabato has led a campaign to publicize Dr. Strauss's alleged wrongdoings for months and only recently began to criticize Mr. Jordan for allegedly ignoring athletes' concerns.
David Range ... said Jordan had to have known about alleged sexual misconduct by Richard Strauss ... because it happened regularly to team members and people talked about it.
Disinformation and propaganda from dedicated partisan sites on both sides of the political divide played a much greater role in the election. It was more rampant, though, on the right than on the left, as it took root in the dominant partisan media on the right, including Breitbart, The Daily Caller, and Fox News.
Jordan and Scalise, in contrast, have opposed virtually every single cannabis measure that's gone before them since they entered federal office in 2007 and 2008, respectively. That includes legislation on cannabis banking, shielding state laws from federal interference, industrial hemp, protecting state CBD programs, letting VA doctors issue medical cannabis recommendations and revising cannabis-related security clearance policy for federal workers.
Ohio is also where he met his wife, Polly. Actually, it was her brothers that he met first, in sports. Polly's charms won out. "I decided it would be a lot more fun wrestling with Polly than her brothers," he says of their courtship.
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| Preceded by | Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromOhio's 4th congressional district 2007–present | Incumbent |
| Preceded by | Chair of theHouse Judiciary Committee 2023–present | |
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| Preceded by | Chair of theRepublican Study Committee 2011–2013 | Succeeded by |
| New office | Chair of theHouse Freedom Caucus 2015–2017 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | United States representatives by seniority 61st | Succeeded by |
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