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Top Jordan ally says claims of death threats against Republicans are overblown - Alternet.org

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Why Insurrectionist and ‘Legislative Terrorist’ Jim Jordan Should Never Be Speaker of the House—and What His Rise Says about the MAGA Republican Party

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Peter Montgomery | October 18, 2023 9:50 am

Rep. Jim Jordan, founding chair of the far-right Freedom Caucus and a pardon-seeking supporter of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to stay in power after losing the 2020 presidential election, is, as of Wednesday morning, just a few Republican votes from being elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. With MAGA leaders, religious-right activists, and right-wing media outlets pressuring the Republican representatives who did not back Jordan in Tuesday’s vote, he may well be second in line for the presidency by the end of the day. If Jordan does become Speaker, it will be yet another new low point for American democracy and for the Republican Party.

Eight Reasons Jim Jordan Should Not Be Speaker of the House

He is an insurrectionist.Jordan was an aggressive supporter of Donald Trump’s efforts to stay in power after losing the 2020 presidential election. Jordan traveled to Pennsylvania to promote the lies of the so-called “Stop the Steal” campaign. As Jill Lawrence wrote recently at The Bulwark, “The next speaker should not be someone we already know is willing to manufacture disputes and support groundless claims to overturn an election to install the president he wants.”

He is Trump’s lapdog. Jordan was the designated GOP attack dog at the 2019 impeachment hearings, where he sought to discredit witnesses against Trump. In 2018, Jordan told a disbelieving Anderson Cooper that he had never heard Trump lie. Five days after the assault on Congress, Trump awarded Jordan the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

He undermines the rule of law.The House Committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol sought testimony from Jordan about his support for Trump’s schemes to stay in power. Jordan defied a congressional subpoena. Jordan has abused his power as Chair of the House Judiciary Committee to interfere in legal investigations and indictments of Trump.

He is an anti-freedom extremist.Jordan sponsored an extreme national abortion ban. The Human Rights Campaign has called him “a member of the anti-equality fringe” for his support for anti-LGBTQ legislation.

He is about ideological warfare, not governing. Former House Speaker John Boehner described Jordan as a “legislative terrorist,” explaining later about Jordan, “I just never saw a guy who spent more time tearing things apart—never building anything, never putting anything together.” Confirming Boehner’s description, Lawrence noted in her Bulwark article that in 2018, “Jordan and other MAGA Republicans convinced Trump to hold out for border wall funding in a budget dispute with Democrats,” leading to “a painful 35-day federal government shutdown.” Jordan leads a bogus House committee investigating the so-called “weaponization” of the federal government, which has been mostly a platform for the promotion of right-wing conspiracy theories.

He is the far right’s candidate. When a group affiliated with the Koch brothers launched a petition campaign to encourage Jordan to run for House Speaker in 2018, the signers were a Who’s Who of leaders from the Religious Right, legal and corporate right, and Tea Party. Jordan’s current bid for speaker has been endorsed by Christian nationalist Sean Feucht, who claimed that God has “anointed” his friend Jordan to hold the office. Campaigns to pressure GOP representatives who voted against Jordan are being waged by right-wing media figures like Sean Hannity and Todd Starnes and right-wing activists like Gary Bauer and Gordan Klingenschmitt, who urged supporters to call House members, writing, “take a moment to save America.” The Trump-aligned religious-right activists at Intercessors for America also urged supporters to call or email House members on Jordan’s behalf.

He promotes damaging right-wing conspiracy theories. Trump’s lies about the 2020 election are not the only conspiracy theories Jordan has helped promote. In 2013, Jordan endorsed a conspiracy theory that the U.S. government was buying bullets in an effort to limit their availability to gun owners.

He is untrustworthy. Multiple former Ohio State wrestlers have publicly charged that when he was an assistant coach, Jordan knew that a team doctor was sexually harassing and abusing student athletes, but refused to take action. One former wrestler said Jordan snickered when the student told him about a groping incident. Another athlete who has accused Jordan of lying about the situation has said Jordan doesn’t deserve to be speaker, adding, “He still has to answer for what happened to us.”

The Republican Party in the MAGA Era

With few notable exceptions, Republican officials have either enthusiastically embraced or been bullied into supporting Jordan’s candidacy and the rest of the MAGA agenda. Rep. Mike Rogers, who publicly opposed Jordan’s vote a few days ago, shifted after being slammed by, among others, Steve Bannon’s WarRoom newsletter and right-wing Sen. Mike Lee.

Last Friday, as Jordan was scrambling to line up enough Republican votes to be elected as Speaker, the Republican National Committee was using Jordan to raise money “to help the GOP build a winning 2024 campaign strategy.” In a text message sent Friday evening, Jordan told supporters that “it’s not too late to save our country from total destruction” by completing the RNC’s “2024 Presidential Canvass” and making a donation. The 22-question survey touched on deceptive right-wing narratives about “the radical left,” critical race theory, media bias, and other potential campaign themes. According to the fine print, donations would be allocated 99 percent to the RNC and 1 percent to Jim Jordan for Congress.

On Monday, Jordan released a “Dear Colleague” letter declaring, “The role of a Speaker is to bring all Republicans together” and asserting, “The principles that unite us as Republicans are far greater than the disagreements that divide us.” Jordan pledged, “I will tirelessly work to defend and expand our majority and help every Republican member back home.”

If Jordan and the rest of the far-right movement manage to pressure the remaining Republican holdouts into making Jordan the most extreme, unaccomplished, and unqualified Speaker in modern history, that may indeed tell us what unites Republicans these days—but it won’t be anything to brag about, and it won’t be good for the country.

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Michael Knowles says Republicans voting against Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) are "squishes, they're liberals, their saboteurs. They're just awful" | Media Matters for America

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'Guerrilla tactics against MAGA bullying': House Republicans opposed to Jim Jordan have a plan - Alternet.org

house Republicans opposed to Republican Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan‘s quest to become Speaker have been executing a plan to ensure he not only loses votes but appears to be designed to ensure he loses credibility and respect and suffers, as some are saying, “humiliation.”

Jordan’s candidacy has been strongly opposed by Democrats, largely based on his ties to Donald Trump and the January 6, 2021 insurrection, along with allegations he ignored years of sexual abuse inflicted on his wrestlers when he coached at Ohio State (OSU).

After Jordan lost more votes in the second round on Wednesday than he lost on Tuesday, CNN’s Melanie Zanona reported House Republicans opposed to a “Speaker Jordan” have been “staggering” their no votes.

“Some of Jim Jordan’s opponents tell me they’ve been purposely staggering their ‘no’ votes over multiple ballots — a strategy designed to show Jordan’s speakership opposition is only growing,” Zanona writes. “And that’s why they tell me Jordan will bleed even more support on a third ballot.”

That third ballot currently is expected to take place Thursday at noon.

“I know it’s inappropriate to take joy in anyone’s suffering but Jim Jordan has spent years being a bully and jerk to his own party and the Democrats. Seeing a bully put in his place is always good,” wrote former Lincoln Project executive director Fred Wellman. Later, responding to Zanona, he added: “This is what happens when you’ve done nothing for your colleagues for years except make their lives harder. Some places call it ‘karma.'”

Veteran foreign policy journalist Laura Rozen wrote, “the House GOP is trying to maximize the humiliation for Jordan by having him lose by more votes every time.”

Former Jezebel editor-in-chief Laura Bassett added, “they’re like not only will you not win, we also have a plan to slowly humiliate you.”

Longtime Republican political strategist Mike Madrid called the plan, “guerilla tactics against MAGA bullying.”

Meanwhile, others are taking notice as well. The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake reports, “The non-MAGA GOP finds some backbone — against Jordan and intimidation.”

As NCRM reported earlier, some Republicans are suggesting or even alleging Jordan and his allies have been sending threatening or intimidating messages attacking members of Congress for not voting to elect him as Speaker. Some say their families have also been targeted.

The Washington Post’s Jacqueline Alemany reported that U.S. Rep. Steve Womack (R-AR) said “in no uncertain terms: The opposition against Jordan is ‘profound.’ He notes that the people who are against Jordan do not want anything but are opposed to him ‘on principle.’ He also says Jordan’s ‘tactics’ have massively backfired.”

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Republicans publicly blast Jim Jordan's 'threats and intimidation' - Alternet.org

House Republican: Jim Jordan team 'harassing our spouses' - Alternet.org

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How right-wing media firebrands promoted 'high-profile disruption' in House speaker debacle - Alternet.org

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when Rep. Jim Jordan's (R-Ohio) nomination for speaker came up for a full House vote on Tuesday, October 17, the far-right MAGA Republican didn't fare well. Democrats voted overwhelmingly to make House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) speaker, and the 20 Republicans who voted against Jordan favored Rep. Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana), former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) or other members of the GOP caucus.

That vote wasn't what far-right media figures like Fox News' Sean Hannity and "War Room" host Steve Bannon were hoping for. Hannity and Bannon had waged a concerted effort to bully and coerce House Republicans into voting for Jordan.

In an article published by Washington Post on October 18, reporters Sarah Ellison and Will Sommer cite Hannity and Bannon as examples of pundits who have helped fuel the chaos plaguing the GOP's House majority.

"Hannity's effort to personally whip up votes for Jordan highlights the central role that right-wing media has played in the weeks-long drama engulfing Capitol Hill over who will wield the speaker's gavel," Ellison and Sommer observe. "At each turn, conservative media figures such as Hannity and former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon have injected high-profile disruption into a process that normally plays out quietly behind the scenes in Capitol Hill corridors."

On October 13, Hannity tweeted, "Any Member of Congress would be crazy to NOT support Jim Jordan for Speaker. He is a natural born principled leader who will lead house Republicans to unite vs the radical left on the house and senate. Call your member and tell them at 202-224-3121."

Bannon, on "War Room," urged listeners to turn up the heat on conservative Rep. Steve Womack — an Arkansas Republican and one of the holdouts — and said of the congressman, "You're in a super MAGA district. You gotta get your mind right." Womack, however, voted for Scalise on October 17.

"Over the weekend," Ellison and Sommer report, "Hannity reached out to several holdout lawmakers who were not supporting Jordan, while one of his producers contacted lawmakers with an e-mail asking why they weren’t backing him."

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'Truly scandalous': Jim Jordan slammed by former top DOJ official

David BadashandThe New Civil Rights MovementAugust 17, 2023

House Republican Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan came under fire by a former top U.S. Dept. of Justice official after rushing to defend Donald Trump from his latest indictment.

Since Monday night when the Fulton County, Georgia grand jury handed up a sprawling 98-page speaking indictment against the ex-president and 18 of his supporters, some Republicans have beenpointing to small, selected small portions of the document and claiming that District Attorney Fani Willis is suggesting the acts listed are all illegal.

House Republican Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan came under fire by a former top U.S. Dept. of Justice official after rushing to defend Donald Trump from his latest indictment.

Since Monday night when the Fulton County, Georgia grand jury handed up a sprawling 98-page speaking indictment against the ex-president and 18 of his supporters, some Republicans have been pointing to small, selected small portions of the document and claiming that District Attorney Fani Willis is suggesting the acts listed are all illegal.

Jordan on Tuesday posted one such claim.

“Mark Meadows asked for a phone number,” he began, adding that former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis “gave legal advice. But somehow the Fulton County DA thinks this is a vast criminal conspiracy? Totally ridiculous.”

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“Maybe the DA should focus on the REAL crime, murders, and corruption happening in her county every day!” Jordan insisted.

Attorney Michael Bromwich is a former U.S. Dept. of Justice Inspector General who lead several notable probes into the FBI’s investigations, and lead former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s legal team.

Thursday afternoon he slammed Jordan’s remarks.

“It’s truly scandalous that the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee doesn’t understand the basics of conspiracy law,” Bromwich said. “Overt acts in furtherance of a conspiracy don’t themselves have to be crimes.”

Bromwich was not the first to criticize Jordan’s remarks.

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“Oh hi @Jim_Jordan, wanted to let you know that driving is illegal; if you are the getaway driver for a bank robbery,” snarked U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), a former JAG attorney.

“Lighting a match is illegal; if you do it to set fire to a church,” Congressman Lieu continued. “Buying fertilizer is illegal; if you plan to give it to a terrorist to make a bomb. Get it?”

Referring to the domestic terrorist known as the “Unabomber,” Vanity Fair’s Molly Jong-Fast responded to Jordan’s comment by saying, “This is like saying ted kaczynski was jailed for using the United States postal service.”

Appearing to point to widespread accusations that Congressman Jordan ignored or disregarded numerous reports of sexual misconduct or sexual assault when he was an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State, historian Kevin Kruse said: “Jim Jordan can’t see the crimes? Huh, that’s new.”

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Jim Jordan made up to $1 million with a book about 'fighting for freedom in the swamp'

Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, could have more than quadrupled his congressional salary due to sales of a book about "fighting for freedom in the swamp," according to new federal disclosure records.Jordan revealed that he made between $100,000 and $1 million in royalties for "Do What You Said You Would Do: Fighting for Freedom in the Swamp," according to a financial disclosure report for 2022 obtained by Raw Story.

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When I woke up on October 2, 2020, I figured it would be like most Fridays in DC. Congress would finish up the week with a few votes on the House Floor and then members would rush to Reagan National Airport to catch a flight home. Polly and I had a mid-afternoon flight; however, we weren’t headed home. We were going to Wisconsin to help a colleague raise funds and to attend the President’s rally in Green Bay…. As I started to put on my workout gear before heading to the House gym, I took a look at my phone. I noticed I had several text messages and missed phone calls from Russell Dye, the top media staffer for our personal office and for Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee. Some of the calls and messages were from after midnight…. I called him right away.

“What’s going on?” I asked.

He responded, “Sir, the president has the virus!”

I turned on the TV. It was the only story.… I had traveled to Cleveland with the president three days earlier—I knew I’d have to quarantine until I got tested. I’d been tested before the flight to Cleveland, but that wouldn’t matter now. I’d have to get a new test. No workout this morning, no flight to Wisconsin this afternoon…. First things first. I was scheduled for a Fox and Friends interview that morning in the eight o’clock hour. I grabbed a quick shower and then headed to the office to prep for the interview. We were supposed to discuss the election and how the president was doing in Ohio. But we knew the only topic would be the president contracting the virus…. An hour later I got tested in the House physician’s office.… On that drive home Polly and I talked about all that had transpired that morning. We talked about the president and first lady, and like millions of other Americans, we prayed for their health and for our country. Over the weekend I thought about that day—that one day—Friday, October 2, 2020: it was really a picture of the entire year. 2020 was about the virus and the presidential election. 2020 was all about politics.

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during an extensive interview most notable for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) refusing to stop talking and allowing host Dana Bash to fact-check him, the CNN host was finally forced to cut off the conservative lawmaker and point out he was rambling instead of answering her questions.

Asked on to discuss the37-count federal indictment that former president Donald Trump is facing, Jordan ranted about the politicization of the Department of Justice -- a central theme of hearings in the House Judiciary Committee he heads -- and then launched into diatribes about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Pressed about a Trump admission on a recently revealed tape that he possessed sensitive documents that he had not declassified -- a central part of the DOJ's case -- Jordan stated, "Not if he declassified it when he was President of the United States, for goodness' sake."

"He is saying point blank in this audio tape he did not declassify it," Bash interjected. "What you're saying just doesn't make sense on its face."

"Dana, what this truly is, Dana, is an affront to the rule of law," Jordan attempted.

"It is an affront to the consistent application of the law," he continued. "You haveSecretary Clinton who had classified material on a server. She was not President of the United States. She was Secretary Clinton. You have that happen and nothing happens to her."

"The only one indicted is the one who was president and did it the right way," he later insisted. "Oh, my goodness. That is what the American people see."

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republican House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan's unprecedented attack on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg this week will "backfire" on the GOP, according to a Washington Post columnist who spoke with House Democrats.

Chairman Jordan, who has no constitutional oversight authority over an elected county district attorney, demanded Bragg hand over documents and communications and testify before Congress about his criminal investigation into Donald Trump's hush money payoffs and business practices. Some believe an indictment could come as early as Wednesday afternoon.

"If Jim Jordan and MAGA Republicans attack the Manhattan DA's potential indictment of Trump, Democrats will use the proceedings to draw attention to coordination between House Republicans and Trump's legal team, Dems tell me," The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent said Wednesday via Twitter. "This will backfire on the GOP."

Sargent adds House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin told him: "This is an extreme move to use the resources of Congress to interfere with a criminal investigation at the state and local level." Raskin likened "GOP 'political culture' to 'authoritarian dictatorships.'"

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Sargent says Democrats "can use this against the GOP."

He adds: "Trump's lawyer sen[t] a letter to Jim Jordan urging an investigation into any charges against Trump, the NYT reports. Dems will use any hearings that Jordan holds to shed light on coordination between Trump's legal team and House Republicans, aides tell me."

In his Wednesday Washington Post opinion column Sargent calls onDemocrats to "marshal some serious creativity in response" to Republican attacks.

"The extraordinary move by House Republicans to insert themselves into Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's investigation of Trump provides Democrats with an opening to do just that," he says.

Sargent says "it's not clear that Jordan, the Judiciary Committee chair, has thought this through. The course of action signaled by the letter — also signed by Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) — could go sideways for Republicans in unforeseen ways."

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Raskin is an attorney, constitutional law professor, and was the lead impeachment manager for the second impeachment of Donald Trump. He has become a leading voice for American democratic values and in the fight against the MAGA Republicans.

"If and when there is an indictment, we will be able to reconstruct all the facts of this case in a way that makes sense to the American public," Raskin told Sargent, who explains: "The aim, he noted, would be to 'show the justice process is working, and there is no call for extraordinary intervention by the U.S. Congress.'"

Sargent warns, "A Trump indictment will unleash months of information warfare around a numbingly complex matter never before litigated in the public arena. Democrats sometimes undervalue the importance of sheer creativity in politics, and as ugly as the GOP response has been, Republicans are responding to unprecedented circumstances with new innovations. Democrats must meet them on that battlefield."

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COVID-19 investigation

Right-wing media have regularly amplified misinformation about COVID-19 and downplayed the severity of the pandemic, even as the death toll has continued to rise over the course of almost three years. Jordan has expressed interest in investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, especially pertaining to conspiracy theories perpetuated by right-wing media that Fauci knew more about its origins than he was letting the public know. In the right-wing media sphere, pundits have called for similar investigations, like Fox’s Jesse Watters suggesting an investigation into “how much money Fauci’s making in royalties from vaccines.”

While appearing on Fox’s Sunday Morning Futureson January 16, Jordan vowed to uncover what Fauci knew about the pandemic’s origins, saying he would “definitely” investigate Fauci and claiming the chief presidential medical adviser knew that the virus was created in a lab but led the public to believe otherwise.
When appearing on the January 20 episode of The Truth with Lisa Boothe, Jordan asserted that “what Fauci did is the template for how the left operates. Fauci said, ‘I’m going to get these individuals who get government money to write the story I want them to write, we’re then gonna cite that story as the basis for the message we want out there, and we’re going to mislead the American people.’”

Impeachments

Both right-wing media and Jordan have called for the impeachment of Mayorkas, Biden, and Garland. Right-wing media figures have been calling for Biden’s impeachment (since even before he took office) on a variety of issues, including his immigration policie:{s. Fox prime-time hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham have given Republicans a platform to call for Mayorkas’ impeachment as well due to the situation at the southern border. Similarly, some right-wing media figures, including Ingraham and Hannity, have suggested that the GOP might want to impeach Garland for his supposed failure to protect Supreme Court justices and crisis pregnancy centers after the court’s draft opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked earlier this year. Jordan has also pushed similar narratives during his media appearances.}:

Jordan told The Washington Times on October 3 that Mayorkas “deserves” impeachment, and that “there’s not a rational person with an ounce of common sense who thinks the border is secure.” Jordan also stated that, when it comes to Mayorkas’ impeachment, it’ll be a decision the House judiciary “make[s] as a committee and one that we make as a conference.”
On March 25, Jordan said to The Washington Times that the Judiciary Committee would lead an impeachment trial for Biden but the decision to “try to remove” Biden from office would need to be agreed upon by every Republican member of the House of Representatives. Jordan cited what the Times summarized as “failures in office, most notably his administration’s inability to stop a massive influx of illegal immigration through the southern border” as probable impeachment charges.
Jordan told the Washington Free Beacon on July 11 that impeaching Garland would be “a decision that will be made by the entire conference,” citing Garland's supposed failure to protect clinics and judges and alleged collusion with left-wing groups opposed to parents protesting at school board meetings.

Politicization of the DOJ and the FBI

Right-wing media have promoted false claims that parents protesting so-called critical race theory in schools have been labeled “domestic terrorists” by the FBI. Within a few days in October 2021, Fox News aired over 60 segments discussing a DOJ announcement that it was looking into threats of violence and illegal behavior against school board members from protesters; some of the segments promoted the idea that these protesters were being “muzzled.” Jordan, along with other Republicans in the House Judiciary Committee, published a 1,050-page report in early November alleging FBI misconduct on issues including alleged inflation of domestic violent extremist statistics and investigations into parents who have protested at school board meetings. Jordan has also suggested that the committee intends to start an investigation of the FBI “right away” and he has sought documents from the education secretary as “the first step in our investigation into the Biden Administration’s role in the school boards spying scandal.”

On Fox News’ America’s Newsroom on November 4, Jordan attempted to justify the purpose of the whistleblower report, saying, “America is not America if you have a Justice Department that treats people differently under the law. It’s supposed to be equal treatment under the law. That’s not happening. And we know it’s not happening because 14 brave FBI agents came to us as whistleblowers and told us what exactly is going on here.”
On November 9, Jim Jordan made a guest appearance on the Breitbart News Daily podcast to discuss the report, saying, “FBI leadership, and specifically the Washington Field Office, is rotted to its core. So that means you’ve got to have a major overhaul, and the way you do that in Congress is you show exactly how bad it was — that’s our job — and then, you hopefully, by showing it, that pushes them back and gets them to throttle back on all the crazy things they’re doing.”
On the November 1 edition of Kudlow, Jordan told host Larry Kudlow that Americans “have to have a Justice Department that treats every American the same, equal treatment under the law.” He said that’s “not what we saw” with a pro-life activist in Philadelphia who was arrested by the FBI and with attacks on churches and pro-life centers. Jordan said that the House Judiciary Committee will “hold them [the FBI and Justice Department] accountable” to “stop a Justice Department that’s been focused on politics.”

Increased oversight of the administration's immigration policy

Right-wing media continue to catastrophize actions at the U.S. southern border, which Jordan has claimed is seeing an “unprecedented surge of illegal activity,” and has blamed Biden’s immigration policies for leading to “chaos on the border.” Right-wing media have compared immigration to invasions, pushed racist “great replacement” conspiracy theories against migrants, and frequently attacked the Biden administration for resettling migrant children. Currently, Jordan is pushing for increased oversight of the DOJ due to a perceived lack of leadership when it comes to immigration from the Biden administration.

On September 20, Jordan lambasted the Biden administration for “ignoring” issues around immigration and refusing to embrace Trump-era immigration policies at the southern border. During his appearance on America Reports, Jordan said that a “full implementation” of Title 42 (meaning “building the wall” and returning to the Remain in Mexico policy) would solve the southern border crisis, but “the White House won’t embrace it because the hard left won’t let them.”
During his September 12 appearance on Fox Across America, Jordan slammed Vice President Kamala Harris for calling the southern border secure, saying, “Here are millions of people coming across, as we’ve said before, it has to be intentional. It has to be deliberate and premeditated because it can't be that. … That’s a serious concern that I know, as I travel around, lots of Americans have.”
Jordan and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) wrote a letter to the Department of Justice demanding answers as to why the Biden administration decided to “terminate the employment of multiple immigration judges who were hired during the Trump administration.”

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https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/16/democratic-strategists-launch-war-room-00065498

group of top Democratic strategists are launching a multi-million-dollar hub to counter an expected investigative onslaught by the likely incoming House GOP majority — digging into President Joe Biden, his administration and his son, on top of potential Cabinet impeachments.

The newly relaunched Congressional Integrity Project initiative, details of which were shared first with POLITICO, will include rapid response teams, investigative researchers, pollsters and eventually a paid media campaign to put congressional Republicans “squarely on the defense,” founder Kyle Herrig said in an interview.

It’s designed to serve as the party’s “leading war room” to push back on House Republican investigations, Herrig said in an interview. He added that the project would “investigate the investigators, expose their political motivations and the monied special interests supporting their work, and hold them accountable for ignoring the urgent priorities of all Americans in order to smear Joe Biden and do the political bidding of Trump and MAGA Republicans." [vid]

a team of researchers has already begun scouring public records, press clippings and other documents in a bid to immediately undercut House GOP leaders, from Minority Leader — now speakership hopeful — Kevin McCarthy to the likely committee chairs expected to manage probes of Biden and his network.

The House GOP views investigations as a key piece of its agenda for the next Congress once it takes the narrow majority that’s now expected, particularly as much of its legislative wish list is on track to stall thanks to the Senate filibuster and Democratic president. McCarthy has privately talked with committee chairs-in-waiting to coordinate plans, making the swift launch of the outside-group pushback plan a potential godsend to Democrats.

Democratic leadership on the Hill has been briefed about the project’s relaunch, according to a person familiar with its plans.

Brad Woodhouse, a longtime Democratic strategist who is part of the project’s new leadership team, called the House GOP’s looming investigations a “vendetta” after two impeachments of and investigations into former President Donald Trump while Democrats controlled Congress, including the bipartisan select committee probing the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

The project “will exploit every tactic available,” Woodhouse said, adding: “It’s not enough to wait and see what they’re going to do and how far they’re going to go.”

Republicans wouldn’t formally take the House until January, but its leaders are already vowing to cut a broad investigative swath. As McCarthy put it during his conference’s recent agenda rollout: “Every committee has responsibilities for oversight.”

“They’ve virtually outlined no substantive agenda for governing,” Herrig said of House Republicans. “This is what they’re going to do ... so you really need a concentrated effort that’s doing this every day.”

In addition to Herrig and Woodhouse, the project’s leadership team will include Leslie Dach, a well-known Democratic communications specialist who has led progressive organizations for decades, served in the Obama administration and advised the Biden administration’s pandemic response.

In a sign of the important role the initiative will play over the next two years — and its proximity to the White House — other senior advisers include Jeff Peck, a former Biden aide during the president’s time in the Senate who served as treasurer and vice chair of the Biden Foundation as well as a senior adviser to the Biden-Harris transition.

The Congressional Integrity Project leadership team will include Leslie Dach, a well-known Democratic communications specialist who has led progressive organizations for decades. | Brian Stukes/Getty Images for Protect Our Care

For the final two years of Biden’s term, Republicans will be aided in their oversight push by a coalition of outside conservative research groups that have already mapped out potential targets and started digging into issues ranging from Hunter Biden’s business dealings to immigration policy.

And GOP lawmakers have left their own investigative breadcrumbs that make it clear where they intend to go. Likely Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) will lead the Hunter Biden investigation, with Republicans already preparing to elevate the probe to Joe Biden although no evidence has publicly emerged that his decisions were affected by his son’s business dealings. Comer recently told POLITICO that he and likely Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) would provide a public update this week.

Jordan, meanwhile, is preparing to use the gavel he’s poised to take for conduct a sweeping investigation into the Justice Department and FBI, two frequent targets of Trump’s ire. That probe is likely to touch on everything from the search at Mar-a-Lago for classified documents to tracking threats against local school officials, which the GOP slams as an effort to target parents despite denials from the bureau. [vid]

other GOP areas of interest include the withdrawal from Afghanistan, Ukraine aid and a coronavirus probe that is likely to sweep up longtime public health adviser Anthony Fauci.

McCarthy and his allies are under pressure from their base and some members of their own conference to pair their investigations with impeachment articles; some in the party are clearly itching for payback after then-President Trump was impeached twice. Though impeaching Biden is likely a heavy lift — and a step that McCarthy isn’t endorsing for now — Republicans see Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as a more likely target for attempted removal from office.

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congressional Democrats and others close to the administration view Republicans’ vows to investigate Mayorkas’ department and the border as the latest sign that they aren’t serious about trying to pass immigration legislation. And they slam Republican investigative plans writ large as thinly veiled attempts to help Trump, pointing to Jordan’s public remarks earlier this year that characterized GOP probes as helping “frame up the 2024 race.”

The Congressional Integrity Project is also aiming to raise funds for a paid media campaign, including dedicated websites, digital ads, mobile billboards, newspaper ads and, occasionally, TV ad buys. Its public opinion research will be shared with like-minded organizations and congressional allies to contrast GOP investigations with issues the American public cares most about, project leaders said.

Their goal is to prevent a repeat of the 2016 presidential campaign when Republicans also controlled the House and created a select committee to investigate the 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans. That GOP select panel ended up zeroing in on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as she prepared to ascend to the Democratic nomination, culminating in an 11-hour grilling of Clinton.

Republicans’ two-year Benghazi investigation spent $7 million in taxpayer money and dogged Clinton on the campaign trail before finally producing an 800-page report that didn’t focus on the former secretary of state.

Then-Majority Leader McCarthy quipped in 2015 to Fox News’ Sean Hannity that the Benghazi committee had successfully driven down Clinton’s poll numbers. “He took a lot of crap for it, but in the end, it was true” that the investigation hurt Clinton politically, recalled Woodhouse.

Rather, Democrats hope the flood of investigations will lead to a repeat of the 1998 midterm elections, held amid the GOP push to impeach then-President Bill Clinton. Voter backlash against that move helped Democrats defy historical trends in House races that favor the party that doesn’t occupy the White House gaining seats.

POLITICO

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House Republicans appear set on spending the next two years firmly ensconced within the right-wing media bubble, focusing on creating content for its Fox News stars after garnering a slim majority in the midterm elections.

On Thursday morning, just hours after news outlets had projected that Republicans would take control of the lower chamber, Reps. James Comer (R-KY) and Jim Jordan (R-OH) held a news conference detailing what will apparently be the party’s top priority. Their announcement had nothing to do with the issues voters said they cared the most about when they went to the polls, like inflation or abortion rights. Instead, the incoming chairs of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees, with the apparent approval of likely Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), promised to be laser-focused on business deals President Joe Biden’s son Hunter was involved in years ago.

As they spoke, the caucus’ official Twitter account was tweeting catchphrases that are incomprehensible to anyone who doesn’t spend a significant amount of time in the right-wing information ecosystem [twt]

fox News hosts and their fellow travelers have been trying to use Hunter Biden’s business dealings as a cudgel against his father since before he launched his run for president. That fixation ultimately triggered Fox’s obsession and then-President Donald Trump’s first impeachment for corruptly using his power to try to force Ukraine to launch a spurious investigation into the Bidens. The story returned to the fore in the closing weeks of the 2020 presidential election as part of a last-ditch effort by Rupert Murdoch’s outlets to use revelations from the alleged “Hunter Biden laptop” to keep Trump in office. And as Election Day 2022 approached, right-wing outlets were rife with demands for Republicans to use the power they might gain to scrutinize what they term the “Biden Crime Family.”

Indeed, Thursday’s event seemed made-to-order for the right-wing press, which rewarded the House Republican leaders with fawning coverage and airtime.

Fox prime time host Sean Hannity opened his program that night by crowing that “Republicans now have control of the House and soon, for the first time in two years, this administration will finally get their feet held to the fire” before spending several segments purporting to explain how “the big guy himself, Joe Biden” had “ended up using his crack-addicted son as a bag man.” He aired clips from Comer and Jordan speaking at the news conference, then rewarded Comer with an interview, which he concluded by thanking the congressman “for your hard work and your willingness to take on a hard topic.” During the next hour, hostLaura Ingraham also touted the event and aired clips before bringing on Jordan.

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mma 922 https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/sean-hannity-producer-lynda-mclaughlin-texted-trumps-chief-staff-push-debunked-claims**

Newly released text messages show that the executive producer of Sean Hannity's radio show, Lynda McLaughlin, asked then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows for a meeting with President Donald Trump to share “hard data” that “show[ed] proof of the fraud” being pushed by the White House, Fox News, and the entire right-wing media in the 2020 election.

CNN’s Reliable Sources newsletter reported on the text messages, taken from a new book by former January 6 committee staffer (and former congressman) Denver Riggleman; as noted in the block quote below, CNN independently verified the messages as well.

Hannity Producer's Big Ask: In early January 2021, during the politically turbulent time before Joe Biden assumed the office of the presidency, the executive producer of Sean Hannity's radio show sought to meet directly with then-President Donald Trump.

The producer, Lynda McLaughlin, texted Mark Meadows, the former acting chief of staff, with a big ask, claiming she had "hard data" which "show[ed] proof of the fraud" — evidently about the 2020 election. McLaughlin characterized the dubious information as "irrefutable" and wanted to take it straight to Trump.

"Mark -- are we able to present our data to POTUS?" McLaughlin asked.

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The messages underscore the intimate relationship that Hannity, his team, and the right-wing media writ large shared with the Trump White House. The cozy relationship exposed in the messages lays bare that in many cases, right-wing media outlets and personalities not only positively covered the Trump White House, but actively worked arm-in-arm with it.

For instance, when McLaughlin texted Meadows introducing herself ("Hey it's Lynda from Hannity") and told Meadows she was "rallying the troops," Meadows replied by thanking her for her "wonderful" contribution and connecting her with the Trump-supporting Rep. Jim Jordan. "Jim Jordon[sic] will gladly coordinate with the House team," Meadows texted McLaughlin. "Do you need his contact?"

CNN also reported that “Meadows seemed to stop responding to McLaughlin later in the conversation, after she asked to meet with Trump.”

This is not the first time McLaughlin has been directly involved in stoking right-wing conspiracy theories of election fraud. In December 2020, McLaughlin, as part of the so-called “Data Integrity Group,'' testified to the Georgia Senate Judicial Subcommittee that the group had proof of votes being taken from Trump and given to Joe Biden.

During the hearing, McLaughlin never revealed her connection to Hannity.

Hannity later lauded his producer for her strong efforts to overturn the election [audio]

HANNITY (HOST): On December 30th, there is this really incredible group. Lynda McLaughlin works with them, our own Lynda, Data Integrity Group, they actually gave Senate testimony on December 30th about Georgia for example, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Elections. Let's see, the people you have involved in this seem pretty impressive to me. You've got one guy is a data scientist with over a decade experience in a lot of industries, what we have here is fraud that we can prove in this election and then I begin to look at the background and the people, one is a nine-year veteran of the US Navy, worked as an electronic warfare technicians, cryptologic technician whatever the hell that is, Arabic linguist, worked at the NSA as a mission manager, later worked as a CIA contractor at the Counter-terrorism Center. And I'm like, "wow."

On January 2, 2021, the claims were amplified by far-right The Epoch Times and its affiliated NTD YouTube channel.

McLaughlin appeared in an interview with The Epoch Times, released on its site on January 5, 2021, in which she suggests election fraud occurred in Pennsylvania as well.

Justin Mealey and Dave Lobue, other members of the “Data Integrity Group,” also appeared on Lou Dobbs' Fox Business show on January 5: vid]

the claims from the Data Integrity Group have been debunked.

All together, this is another example of the close relationship between Fox News personalities and the Trump White House.

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Consider the hearings held on Wednesday and Thursday by two House committees as a flashpoint laying bare the blatant desperation with which conservatives are clinging to Big Oil’s success instead of caring about their constituents or the planet. On Wednesday, the House Natural Resource Committee about how fossil fuel companies rely on blatantly misleading language and images to boost their profiles. As I’ve reported before, polluters employ a dangerous playbook designed to oppress frontline communities and those concerned with the climate crisis.

The Natural Resource Committee even released a study logging these tactics ahead of the hearing. But critics claim that supporting “the energy sector” amounts to using free speech and securing the country’s energy resources, worsening crisis be damned. Publicists painted Big Oil as having moved on from denying climate change, equating doing the bare minimum with somehow being leaders in the movement. Republicans like Rep. Lauren Boebert bashed a witness who was harassed and stalked for an anti-fracking campaign she participated in in Colorado. If y’all think lawmakers behaved any better the next day, just wait for Clay Higgins to speak up during Thursday’s House Oversight Committee hearing on Big Oil’s role in the climate crisis.

Higgins, a noted white supremacist, spent his five minutes talking down to an expert witness wholly more qualified to speak on the topic of the hearing’s subject, which was “Examining Big Oil’s Prices, Profits, and Pledges.” Higgins continually called Raya Salter, Esq. “young lady” and outright screamed at her for standing up to people like him on behalf of frontline communities he’s so blatantly ignored. Salter, who is the Founder and Executive Director of the Energy Justice Law and Policy Center and a member of the New York State Climate Action Council, implored Higgins to instead reckon with his own actions. [twt vid]

at best, Higgins is a climate change skeptic. He’s also entirely bought and paid for by the oil and gas sector—which is the top industry he receives campaign donations from—and was the lone dissenting House vote who wanted fossil fuel imports from Russia to remain despite the country’s invasion of Ukraine. “I want you to search your heart and ask your God what you are doing to the Black and poor people in Louisiana,” Salter pushed back against Higgins.

Higgins had his supporters, such as fellow monster Jim Jordan and Yvette Herrell, and Salter received support from Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who slammed Higgins’ conduct. “For the gentleman from Louisiana and the comfort he felt in yelling at you like that, there’s more than one way to get a point across,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “And, frankly, men who treat women like that in public, I fear how they treat women in private.” To add insult to injury, Michael Shellenberger mispronounced Ocasio-Cortez’s name without caring to correct it.

Shellenberger was considered by some Republicans to be the only “minority witness” who thinks climate change actually isn’t that bad and that mass casualty events simply won’t happen. He’s the comfort blanket to Republicans who call environmental concern a “war on gas” and think climate activists are dehumanizing. Once a Democrat in name, he’s now simply a traitor to the human race who finds more comfort in Fox News appearances than in acknowledging reality. Many GOP lawmakers only spoke to Shellenberger when they did have a chance to address the panel.

What’s revealing about these hearings isn’t the information we already know about how bad Big Oil is or the quite literal Black and white divisions between fossil fuel worshippers and those who believe that any higher power wouldn’t want us destroying the planet. It’s that, at the core of this issue, white comfort is one of the biggest hindrances to addressing the climate crisis. I want Higgins to feel uncomfortable when Roishetta Ozane began her moving testimony on her experience surviving multiple disasters in Southwest Louisiana by calling the lawmaker out. Addressing white supremacy is a key component in dismantling it and foundational to creating a truly just transition.

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Republican outrage was described as a “small political side circus,” after U.S. Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) succeeded in having several fact-checking articles exposing Republicans’ false claims made part of the Congressional Record.

The articles all debunked the false and baseless claims conservatives and the far right have been making for nearly a year, that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents speaking at school boards “domestic terrorists,” and was investigating them.

Cicilline first tried to read the articles into the record, but Republicans immediately objected.

The Democrat from Rhode Island appeared genuinely surprised that the Judiciary Committee Republicans would object to the very basic and standard procedure. He was forced to describe the articles to have them included in the official record – something the Republicans also caused a commotion over.

Referring to Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Rep. Cicilline said that “the ranking member made reference to a Department of Justice whistleblower memo and grossly mischaracterized its content. So I’d ask unanimous consent that I’d be permitted to read the memo into the record.”

Republicans objected.

“You object to reading into the record the memo?” Cicilline, shocked, asked. “Then I ask unanimous consent that the document that the Republicans were afraid to have be read aloud be introduced into the record.”

He read the titles into the record (NCRM has linked to those titles online below.)

“No, the federal government isn’t using the Patriot Act to treat parents like domestic terrorists,” which refutes a claim Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH) made last year in October during another Judiciary Committee hearing.

“McCarthy’s false claims that Garland called parents ‘terrorists’” was the title of another article made part of the record.

“Attorney General never called concerned parents ‘domestic terrorists’” was yet another article.

“Kevin McCarthy keeps repeating false claim that attorney general called parents terrorists for wanting to attend school board meetings,” was the final article.

Cicilline then asked “unanimous consent” that Republicans “read these documents and stop making false claims,” to which the Chair responded, “Good luck with that.”

Republicans were outraged.

“Point of order!” yelled one.

“The gentleman just impugned our integrity!” Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) decried. “I would demand that his words be taken down. He is not allowed under the rules to impugn false statements by this side.”

Gohmert literally pointed his finger at Cicilline as he yelled.

“And as far as Politifact, and some of those, they couldn’t find the truth with both hands,” Gohmert, making what would likely be a “pants on fire claim,” also charged.

The Jim Jordan Louie-Gohmert part of the GOP caucus did not appear to have the full support of their fellow members.

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, a far-right Republican of Texas, held his head in his hand during part of the outbreak, and later ignored it by using his cell phone. U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky was laughing toward the end.

Watch below or at this link.

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Last night’s hearing, however, suggested one more layer.

A cover-up of the congressional coup.

By the Congress.

Hinting hard

The goal appears to have been getting enough members of the US Congress to vote to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The GOP had a Senate majority at the time. They could have, in theory, overruled the will of the people, at least temporarily. Ultimately, however, just 147 Republicans, including eight senators, objected.

I don’t know, had they amassed enough votes in the Senate, where things would have gone after that. Perhaps it would have triggered the 12th Amendment. Perhaps it would have thrown the process back to red states that Joe Biden had won, where friendly Republican legislators would have fixed things so Trump could stay in office.

In any case, the former president spent a lot of time talking about congressional Republicans and talking directly to congressional Republicans to such a degree as to suggest there was another layer of his grand seditious conspiracy that’s only now coming into light. That’s certainly what the J6 committee has been hinting hard at.

Co-conspirators?

Last week, the panel’s Stephanie Murphy said Trump met in late December with US Reps. Matt Gaetz, Andy Biggs, Brian Babin, Jody Hice, Louie Gohmert, Andy Harris, Mo Brooks, Paul Gosar, Scott Perry and Jim Jordan. Margaret Taylor Greene was there. So were Mike Pence, Mark Meadows and Rudy Giuliani. (Seven of these members asked for pardons. Ditto Meadows, Giuliani and Greene.)

They tried getting the former vice president to go along with the conspiracy. It called for him to reject the count all by himself or send it back to the states where state GOP legislators were waiting.

Pence had refused before. I’m guessing those at the meeting expected him to again. He did. The next step was finalizing a scheme to bring tens of thousands of Trump loyalists to the capital, including armed paramilitaries (eg, Proud Boys and Oath Keepers), in order to terrify not only Pence but GOP senators into reinstalling Trump.

Terrifying GOP senators

According to the J6 committee’s Elaine Luria, Trump was told 15 minutes after returning to the White House after his speech on the Ellipse that the US Capitol was under siege by an armed mob. After the briefing, Luria said, Trump began calling GOP senators for the purpose of persuading them to overrule the results of the election.

On the one hand, the former president had insurgents sacking and looting the seat of government, threatening lawmakers with death – in Mike Pence’s case, with hanging from a makeshift gallows. (It was revealed last night that Pence’s Secret Service detail believed they were going to die. They sent messages of love to their families.) On the other, Trump pushed GOP senators by phone to get on board.

During that time, White House staffers tried and failed to persuade Trump to respond to the assault. (He did not issue orders to anyone, not the secretary of defense, the secretary of homeland security, the attorney general, no one.) Instead of telling them to go home, as staffers had hoped, he posted a tweet accusing Pence of betrayal.

After “pouring gasoline on the fire,” as witness Sarah Matthews said, the former president made more phone calls to Republican senators. Later that evening, after Trump had called for the insurgents to go home, Rudy Giuliani made even more calls to Republican senators.

Indeed, the J6 committee’s Adam Kinzinger named them. They were: Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Marsha Blackburn, Bill Hagerty, Tommy Tuberville and Lindsey Graham. Of that number, only three voted to overturn the results of the election: Cruz, Tuberville and Hawley.

The cover-up

Giuliani also called US Rep. Jim Jordan.

Jordan, as I wrote last week, was nominated to serve on the initial select committee to investigate J6. Speaker Nancy Pelosi vetoed his nomination, though. Good thing she did. The current committee would have been compromised by the presence of a congressman who was a serial witness to the serial crimes under investigation.

Jordan was nominated by Kevin McCarthy. As the J6 committee reminded us last night, the House minority leader talked to Trump after the attack. He said Trump said he had “some responsibility” for J6. McCarthy said he told Trump that the House Democrats were likely to pass an impeachment resolution and that he should resign.

Trump didn’t resign, of course.

Perhaps the fix was in.

Implication by omission

Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the J6 committee, reminded us that the committee’s work goes on. Hearings will resume in September, she said. Then the Wyoming congresswoman used some curious math:

Today, we know far more about the president’s plans and actions to overturn the election than almost all members of Congress did when President Trump was impeached on January 13, 2021, or when he was tried by the Senate in February of that year.

Fifty-seven of 100 senators voted to convict President Trump at that time, and more than 20 others said they were voting against conviction, because the president's term had already expired.

Cheney said “almost all,” I think, because a dozen GOP members had been deeply involved in or material witnesses to Trump’s conspiracy.

She said “57 of 100,” I think, because it takes 67 senators to remove and convict a president. She said “more than 20 others,” because she’s apparently giving these GOP senators the benefit of the doubt.

But that still leaves around 20 unaccounted for. Why?

Perhaps because some, or all, of these 20 or so Republican senators had been in contact with the former president as the insurrection was unfolding and therefore potential co-conspirators in the crime.

Perhaps because some, or all, of these 20 or so Republican senators voted against conviction, thus taking steps to cover up the crime.

In any case, it was implication by omission.

The appearance of a conspiracy

We know at least six of them were evidently in both camps. On the evening of J6, Rudy Giuliani called Blackburn, Hawley, Cruz, Hagarty, Tuberville and Graham hoping they would object to the vote count. (Three did.) This same group voted to acquit Trump of treason.

If that’s not a rigged outcome, it sure looks like one.

Liz Cheney seemed to be inviting us to put the former president’s second impeachment trial in light of what we know now.

She seemed to be asking us to consider what it means when at least a dozen sitting members of the House were material witnesses as well as grand jury members deciding on an indictment (impeachment).

She seemed to be asking us to see that at least six of those Senators were materially involved in a crime of which they sat in judgment.

If that’s not a conspiracy, it sure as hell looks like one.

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...These polls are a picture of systemic displeasure with a president who isn’t doing enough to bring down the price of gas, food, housing and more. Evidently, Joe Biden should have considered inflation before going off half-cocked in allied defense of Ukraine’s national sovereignty.

Democracy is great and all, but seriously.

Is it more important than cheap gas?

No, said Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan: “Real America [white people] doesn’t care about the January 6 committee. Gas is over $5 per gallon!”

To which we liberals say: no. Real Americans are all Americans, because all Americans have a stake in the continuation of this democratic republic.

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i was going for jim j BS

rep. Jim Jordan

@Jim_Jordan

$5 dollar gas.

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No baby formula.

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Record crime.

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Record inflation.

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Border crisis.

And what’s Congress doing today? Holding a hearing on UFOs!

Rep. Jim Jordan

@Jim_Jordan

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Christopher Steele created the dossier. [for ? orig GOP oppo?!]

Glenn Simpson sold it to the press.

Michael Sussman took it to the FBI.

And Democrats and the media lied to you about it all.

Rep. Jim Jordan

@Jim_Jordan

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Gas prices reached another record high today.

You still can’t find baby formula.

And Democrats in D.C. have no real plan.[vs GOP's health care plan...]

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president Biden MUST listen to

@HouseGOP

and #FliptheSwitch to unleash American energy independence.

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scalise: march 2022?

just sent this letter to Biden demanding he end his anti-American energy agenda.He needs to: 1. Remove red tape for energy infrastructure 2. End the drilling moratorium on federal land 3. Approve pipelines & LNG export permits 4. End woke climate activism by federal agencies

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https://www.alternet.org/2021/12/gop-populism/

Some analyses of Trumpism and Republican populism have claimed to detect a strain of anti-corporate sentiment. It is true that today’s right-wingers are willing to criticize big tech companies for supposedly treating them unfairly. But most of the time the GOP continues to serve the interests of big business.

That was clear during an important hearing held by the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on antitrust, commercial and administrative law. Subcommittee chair David Cicilline (D-R.I.), vice-chair Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), other Democratic members and the witnesses all raised serious questions about the current regulatory system, focusing on issues such as disclosure and social equity.

The Republicans, on the other hand, did their best to change the subject or spoke in favor of less rather than more oversight. Ranking member Ken Buck (R-Colo.) used his opening remarks to attack executive overreach and praise the Trump administration’s wholesale attack on regulation.

Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) spent his time attacking what he claimed was a plan by the Justice Department to treat parents critical of school boards as domestic terrorists. One of the witnesses, NAACP climate justice director Jacqueline Patterson, was asked by Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) whether she was a revolutionary. She was also chastised for a facetious tweet about vaccines. The comments of GOP members on regulation were mainly limited to attacks on so-called woke bureaucrats.

Despite these antics, there was a serious exchange between the Democrats and the witnesses on the failures of the current regulatory system. These issues are also addressed in the Stop Corporate Capture Act introduced by Jayapal.

The legislation would create more transparency in rulemaking, reduce corporate influence over the process and create a framework for considering social equity. It would fine companies that lie about the impact of public interest rules. It would also create a public Advocate to provide for more robust public participation.

It turns the usual discussion on its head. Rejecting the idea of executive overreach, the bill correctly diagnoses the problem as a situation of what one might call regulatory anemia. Agencies are not aggressive enough in tackling serious problems relating to the environment, the workplace and the marketplace. The parties meant to be targeted instead are playing an outsized role in creating the rules. Hence the reference in the bill’s title to regulatory capture.

Jayapal’s proposal is what one might call a populist approach to reforming the regulatory system—one that is not likely to receive support from corporate lobbyists. When they are not simply kicking up dust, Republicans, by contrast, are doing the bidding of big business by continuing the Trump Administration’s drumbeat against regulation.

This is one of those areas in which the conventional labels of U.S. politics continue to baffle me. Why are those working to benefit giant corporations called populists, while those who are seeking to rein in that power are called elitists?

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"Idiot' Jim Jordan mocked for claiming Dems are going to cancel Christmas

Meaghan Ellis

October 13, 2021

U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan is dredging up Republicans' annual false claims of a "war on Christmas" by Democrats. The Ohio GOP Congressman was quickly mocked for his efforts – including by some reminding him of ...

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according to a report from Politico, members of the House select committee investigating the Jan 6th insurrection are preparing to go into battle with some of their colleagues over their actions on that day and that may put some Republicans in an awkward spot.

One such GOP lawmaker is combative Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) who may have inadvertently handed committee members wanting to talk to him about his multiple conversations with former president Trump as the riot raged the tools to compel him to testify under oath.

As Politico's Kyle Cheney and Olivia Beavers wrote, "The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack has so far avoided directly roping in fellow lawmakers, even as it homes in on Trump's inner circle. Yet each of its investigative steps so far has further underscored the roles that Trump's staunchest House GOP allies played in his bid to throw out the election results," before adding, "Those Republicans connected the former president to willing partners in the Justice Department who might fuel inflated claims of fraud. They huddled with Trump to deliver counsel. And they spoke with Trump by phone on Jan. 6 as he watched his own 'Stop the Steal' rally morph into a violent riot that overtook the Capitol."

According to the report, Jordan will likely find himself under the microscope and -- if he can't get around being subpoenaed by his colleagues -- he only has himself to blame.

"That reality became more explicit this week, when Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) asked the House to investigate Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) for helping Trump pressure the Justice Department to overturn the election. Perry played a key role in linking Trump with a Justice Department official who was willing to aid the former president's quest to overturn the election, Senate Judiciary Democrats found. Their report also referenced Rep. Jim Jordan's (R-Ohio) contacts with the White House during that timeframe," Politico is reporting.

In Jordan's case, his participation into investigations of Democratic foes and the FBI provided a legal pathway that will likely come back to bite him.

"The question of whether to engage with the select panel is a particularly resonant one for Jordan, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee. He made his name as an aggressive conservative investigator when Republicans dug into allegations of impropriety at the FBI and Justice Department during the 2016 presidential election. At that time, House Republicans fiercely defended the power of the subpoena to compel testimony from executive-branch officials," the report states. "Now Jordan and several of his colleagues are in uncharted territory, facing possible subpoenas from within their own branch."

You can read more here.

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Jordan rages at Dems for attacking Trump’s Big Lie: They think COVID went 'from a bat to a pangolin to Joe Rogan'

Sky Palma

October 08, 2021

This Thursday, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a hearing on the election audit in Arizona's Maricopa County. According to a press release, the hearing is being called "to assess the election 'audit'...

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"irony dies" https://www.alternet.org/2021/09/jim-jordan-s-constitution-day-on-democrats-didn-t-go-as-planned/**

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) decided to celebrate Constitution Day with a veiled tweet attacking Democrats. However, his message didn't get the reaction he may have expected.

On Friday, September 17, the Republican lawmaker took to Twitter with a message that read, "Today is Constitution Day! We celebrate the greatest legal document ever written. We also hope Democrats read it."...[cite big lie BS and post def/statute of sedition]

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1/6 comm

https://www.alternet.org/2021/07/social-media-explodes-with-reactions-to-kevins-mccarthys-jan-6-committee-picks/

before House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy made his selections for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's select committee on the January 6 insurrection, Democrats on Capitol Hill were hoping to God that he wouldn't have the bad taste to pick the buffoonish Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio. But sure enough, Jordan is one of the five House Republicans McCarthy has picked — along with Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana, Rep. Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota, Rep. Rodney Davis of Illinois and Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas. Jordan has been an unapologetic promoter of the Big Lie, the false and debunked conspiracy theory that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump because of widespread voter fraud.

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And Jordan, Nehls and Banks all voted against certifying now-President Joe Biden's Electoral College victory on January 6, although Davis and Armstrong were among the House Republicans who did vote to certify Biden's win.

Twitter has been exploding with reactions to McCarthy's picks. Journalist Seth Abramson devoted an entire thread to the subject:...

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gOP's Jim Jordan outraged after DOJ refuses to investigate bizarre Italian space laser election fraud theory

https://www.alternet.org/2021/06/jim-jordan-2653413213/

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gop civil war?

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https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/jim-jordan

ah poster boy on gerry

Among Democrats, liberals, progressives, centrists and Never Trump conservatives, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio is one of the most notorious Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives. And because of gerrymandering — and because his district is so reliably Republican — the 57-year-old Jordan keeps getting reelected year after year. In an article published by the conservative website The Bulwark on May 24, Cleveland-based journalist Keith Osmun examines the effect that the 2020 U.S. Census may have on Jordan in 2022.

Jordan, a founding member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, presently represents Ohio's 4th Congressional District — where he was first elected in 2006 after having served in the Ohio State Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives.

Osmun explains, "Since the 1930s, Ohio's 4th Congressional District has been under Republican control…. It is arguably the safest Republican district in the country. The current occupant of its seat in the U.S. House of Representatives is everyone's favorite Trump sycophant: Jim Jordan."

Ohio has 16 congressional U.S. House districts; 12 of them are presently occupied by Republicans, while four are occupied by Democrats.

Democrat Janet Garrett, who ran against Jordan in 2014, 2016 and 2018, told Osmun, "I knew the odds. I ran because I felt that it was imperative that somebody put up a fight. If he ran unopposed, they would tout him around the district as so wonderful no one wants to reproach him."

Garrett said of Jordan, "He's never introduced any legislation other than a monument to someone. He doesn't introduce legislation; he's just a bomb thrower. He didn't go to Washington to legislate."

What Ohio's new congressional map will look like in 2022 remains to be seen.

Collin Marozzi, an ACLU attorney who has been fighting gerrymandering in Ohio, told Osmun, "Gerrymandering allows Jim Jordan to be the most Jim Jordan he can be: the most bombastic, bomb throwing, partisan person in Congress. He hasn't passed a single piece of legislation in ten years. He has no real incentive to compromise because he only has to worry about a primary challenge."

Following the 2020 U.S. Census, Ohio will be losing a seat in the U.S. House — and it will have 15 U.S. House districts instead of 16. Osmun observes, "One of the happy byproducts of Ohio losing a congressional seat as a result of the 2020 Census is that the districts will be redrawn under more bipartisan rules put in place in the years since the 2010 Census…. If the changes work as intended, the ride 'safe seats' provide legislators like Jim Jordan will be a bumpier one in the midterms."

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yells at fauci , what # stop 1at amend church (war on xian?), maxine tells him to shut up when time rexpires

https://www.alternet.org/2021/04/jim-jordan/

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Jim Jordan busted for lying about Nancy Pelosi and Capitol insurrection

Travis Gettys Raw Story

March 01, 2021

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) made false claims about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's actions during the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The Ohio Republican claimed that Pelosi initially denied...

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Jim Jordan under investigation by FEC for campaign reports

Travis Gettys Raw Story March 03, 2021

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) has fallen under investigation by the Federal Election Commission for questionable campaign fundraising reports.

The FEC has asked Jordan's campaign committee to explain large accounting discrepancies between report

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https://www.alternet.org/2021/02/devin-nunes-jim-jordan/

Four Republican members of Congress, including Ohio's Jim Jordan and California's Devin Nunes, on Presidents' Day sent Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi a three-page letter effectively blaming her for the deadly January 6 insurrection, urging her to end "this political charade."

The sum of their letter, that the speaker – and not then-President Donald Trump – is responsible for the events of January 6 flies in the face of a mountain of facts, including those presented during last week's impeachment trial. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell publicly agreed with at least seven other Republicans, 48 Democrats, and 2 independents, that Trump was responsible for the deadly riot.

Jordan and Nunes have been among Trump's most ardent supporters. Trump awarded both Congressmen the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Pelosi on Monday announced she is forming a 9/11 style congressional commission to "investigate and report on the facts and causes" of the January 6 insurrection....

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https://www.alternet.org/2021/02/marjorie-taylor-greene-2650333948/

Last night, nearly a dozen Republicans joined all the Democrats in the House to strip Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Donald Trump protégé from Georgia, of her committee appointments — in particular, her place on the powerful House Budget Committee. This was in response to her incendiary speech and fear-mongering before taking office. In effect, they neutralized her, as it were. If you don't have a seat at the table, especially the big government money table, you don't have much in the way of leverage or bargaining.

You could say, however, this was her second neutralizing. The first one she did herself. As Jonathan Bernstein noted this morning, it's not like Greene went to Washington to govern. Her role is demagogic. Leverage and bargaining, bills and laws—these are beside the point. The main point is creating conditions in which she can appear to be in a near-total state of persecution to speak for Americans who feel the same way.

Marjorie Taylor Greene did not go to Washington to represent the will of the people, because, to God's chosen people, representing the will of "the people" is an abomination.

Constituents from Georgia's most conservative corner didn't send her to the United States Congress to represent them, to fight for their interests or their share of the big government money, to "bring home the bacon." They sent her to Capitol Hill to die on that hill, like Jesus Christ on the Cross at Calvary, in order to reenact the suffering of God's chosen at the hands of His enemies. Her job is to manufacture crisis in the absence of one. "The whole point of evangelicalism is that you get to constantly be persecuted," said Chrissy Stroop, "and you enjoy moral superiority from that."

A worldview in which you're always persecuted is a worldview in which you're never responsible, because being responsible would mean you're possibly to blame, which is impossible, because the persecuted are always blameless. Acting out some measure of contrition, when absolutely forced to, is an opportunity to show why you're always persecuted. Before the vote last night, Greene said she was being wrongfully accused, and because of that, the Democrats should be apologizing to her, not the other way around, which totally makes sense given they're the enemies of God's chosen people. [TURMP ALSO AGENT OF CHAOS, B/C GOV'T IS ALWAYS ALREADY BROKEN CORRUPT, PARALYSIS IS GOOD DEFENSE; ALSO // HE HAS 2 MODES, I AM A WINNER OR I AM THE VICTIM B/C THEY KEPT ME FROM WINNING FOR YOU [WHICH DOES NOT NEC MEAN ENACT BILL THAT WILL MAKE YOUR LIFE BETTER B/C SEE ABOVE, BUT BEAT UP OUR ENEMIES DEMS POC]

"I was allowed to believe things that weren't true,[HUH? PASSIVE, BY WHOM?] and I would ask questions about them and talk about them, and that is absolutely what I regret," Greene said. "Because if it weren't for the Facebook posts and comments that I liked in 2018, I wouldn't be standing here today, and you couldn't point a finger and accuse me of anything wrong." [SO SHE WAS THE BRAVE SEEKER OF TRUTH, BUT HER ERROR WAS WRITING IT DOWN SO SHE CAN'T DENY IT NOW? // CHENEY NOTE STRATEGY]

A worldview in which you're accountable to God only, rather than to people of equal worth and dignity with whom you share responsibility in human affairs, is a worldview inherently hostile to a free republic. It will not tolerate diverse interests, nor will it tolerate a republic's tendency to flatten hierarchies of power and privilege. But "demographic change," as the thinking goes, is not the only reason for this hostility.

Marjorie Taylor Greene did not go to Washington to represent the will of the people, because, to God's chosen, representing the will of "the people" is an abomination. Authority does not arise from below, from the consent of the governed. It comes from above, from God. It doesn't matter to Greene that she was removed from committees—that the tools of lawful democratic engagement with other human beings worthy of dignity and respect were taken away—because democracy is the problem. To engage democratically in a republic of equals is to make common cause with the enemy.

Jim Jordan, the House Republican, made a lot of noise the day before Thursday's vote. On Fox, he portrayed accountability for Greene as a "slippery slope." "Who's next?" he said. If the Democrats "keep attacking people, their First Amendment free speech rights, where does it end? … It won't stop with Republicans. It'll go to all of us. If we don't stop it now, every single American is at risk. And that's what concerns me."

Jordan, Greene and most of the rest of the Republicans do fear a slippery slope, but it's not a slippery slope into tyranny. It's a slippery slope into freedom—for all. What they aim to preserve is a social hierarchy that protects but does not bind the privileged few while it binds but does not protect the unprivileged many. What they want is a state in which the small in-group and the huge out-group are separate and unequal. What they fear is a slippery slope threatening to bring liberty and justice to everyone else.

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jj will not admit biden won fairly after insurrection?

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// eric trump , jim jordan cancel cult post insurrection

https://www.alternet.org/2021/01/eric-trump/

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Cancel Jim Jordan': GOP rep mocked for whining about 'cancel culture' during debate over Trump impeachment

Meaghan Ellis

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trump medal of freedom for defense in 1st impeach?

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an 121 post insurrection

jim Jordan seeks 'unity' after trying to overturn election: Impeachment is 'not healthy for the nation'

David Edwards Raw Story

After trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Sunday argued that impeaching President Donald Trump for inciting a riot is "not healthy for..

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/failed-coup-trump/

salon

Trump is still trying to steal the election from Joe Biden, and while he is still going to fail, the terrifying reality is that a few cracks in the wall protecting democracy have started to appear.

While many pundits continue to minimize this entire situation, sneering at people who use phrases like "attempted coup," the grim reality of our current moment is that Trump got far closer to succeeding than many people would like to admit. He's only stopped now by the fact that too many people voted against him in so many different parts of America. Every indication suggests that if it were up to Republicans, who still hold a disproportionate amount of power, Trump might very well have been illegally installed for a second term in office.

The Washington Post reported that Trump reached out to Bryan Cutler, speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, on Monday in an effort to get Cutler to invalidate the state's presidential election results, citing "all these issues in Philadelphia." This is the third Republican state leader Trump has reached out to with this request — he's also contacted Georgia's Gov. Brian Kemp and brought Michigan legislators to the White House — and the third strikeout.

In fact, it's arguably the fourth. Trump also called Arizona's Gov. Doug Ducey. Ducey claimed the president wasn't trying to pressure him — but c'mon, Trump's "information gathering" is just more Trumpian code for his pressure campaign.

So why isn't Trump getting what he asked for? Much of the coverage of the recalcitrant Republican leaders portrays these officials as brave defenders of democracy, or at least people who have had enough of Trump's corruption and are drawing a line.

That's nonsense.

It's evident that what's holding Republicans back is not honor or decency, but a lack of options. There simply aren't legal processes to pull off what Trump wants, no matter what Newsmax or OANN might say, and state leaders know it. They are saying no to Trump not because they want to, but because, legally, they have to. Witness, for instance, what the Pennsylvania House speaker's spokesperson told the New York Times about the discussion with Trump: "Cutler made it very clear what power the legislature has and does not have."

Missing, of course, is any mention of the importance of democracy or a robust defense of the right of Pennsylvanians to vote. Cutler sympathizes with Trump's desire to overturn a free and fair election, which is why he signed a letter to the state's congressional delegation asking them to object to the state's electoral votes. He just doesn't have the power to vacate the election results.

Georgia's Kemp issued a similar response, noting how much effort he's put into "auditing" the vote, but underlining that he's hamstrung from doing any more. Again, this is not a high-minded defense of the right of Georgians to have their votes counted. On the contrary, Kemp has a long history of being an eager vote suppressor, and that's likely why he's governor today. He's just hit the limit of his powers to deprive voters of their right to be heard. The Georgia secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, has received widespread praise for his "courage" in standing up to Trump's coup effort. This is further nonsense. While Raffensperger has been more outspoken in defense of the election results than other Trump-toadying politicians, he too is acting more out of legal necessity than a desire to defend democracy.

Raffensperger has a long history of supporting voter suppression. Indeed, he's exploiting the current situation by conflating Trump's attacks on the election with the fight by former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams to ensure free and fair elections, on the grounds that both are losers who are critical of Georgia's election process. Of course, the two couldn't be more different, starting with the fact that Abrams is telling the truth about voter suppression and Trump is lying about voter fraud. But the larger point here is that Raffensperger's instinct is to use Trump's coup as leverage to strip away more voting rights.

Raffensperger is no hero. He's just legally constricted from being a villain in the particular case of Trump's coup.

Indeed, there was surprising enthusiasm for Trump's efforts in the days after the election from state-level Republicans, which is why 10 Republican state attorneys general filed an amicus brief on Nov. 10 demanding that the Supreme Court gut a Pennsylvania law giving mail-in ballots mailed by Election Day up to three days to arrive. What's happened since then, however, is mounting evidence that Democratic voters, egged on by the party's calls to vote early, outwitted Republican efforts to steal the election through such legal maneuvers. For instance, only 10,000 votes arrived in that three-day post-election window in Pennsylvania, so even if Trump's lawsuit had been successful, it wouldn't have changed the results of the election in that state.

Even in the face of all this, some state-level Republicans are still looking for any angle they can find to overturn the election. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Tuesday demanding that the Supreme Court prevent state delegations from Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin from voting in the Electoral College. Notably, all four states have been subject to accusations from Trump that the votes from large, racially diverse cities are specifically illegitimate.

On the federal level, the same dynamic is in play.

The Washington Post surveyed 249 Republicans in Congress about Trump's attempts to steal the election, and the numbers are disheartening, to say the least. Only 27 GOP congressional members openly opposed the coup by acknowledging that Biden had won the presidential election. Two members said publicly they believed Trump had won, and the rest — 220 duly elected Republican members of Congress — wouldn't answer the question either way.

Saying nothing is tacit support. These members would be perfectly willing to go along with Trump stealing the election if he could pull it off. They just aren't getting on board publicly because they know it won't work. Even if some congressional Republicans object to the state electors — and every sign shows that a handful will — Democrats control the House, so nothing will likely come of it. But this silence speaks volumes about who would happily collaborate with Trump's coup if they had any confidence it would work.

Of course, not all of them are silent. A group of House Republicans, led by Jim Jordan of Ohio and Mo Brooks of Alabama, are publicly calling on Trump to continue fighting even after the Electoral College legally certifies the election for Biden next week. There has been no rebuke from the Republican leadership to these extremists, not even from leaders who hail from the states where Trump is trying to have legal votes thrown out. The Republican stance, on both the state and federal level, is clear: They wish they could help Trump overturn the election, but they just don't see a path forward. They were prepared to abuse their power as far as they could to help him, and have hit the wall

Unfortunately for Trump, time has run out. Tuesday is the deadline for states to certify their results, and next Monday the Electoral College will finally make Biden's win official. The results are clear, not because Republican leaders have any integrity, but because voters showed up in large enough numbers to render all these shenanigans effectively moot. Trump will leave office on Jan. 20, and the only people who deserve credit for that are Democratic voters and organizers, who made sure Biden's win was big enough that it couldn't be stolen away.

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https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/gop-house-judiciary-members-call-qanon-supporter/

no twt

republicans on the House Judiciary Committee, led by ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, are scheduled to host recording artist and QAnon supporter Joy Villa for Thursday’s hearing on diversity in media.

QAnon is a dangerous conspiracy theory movement built on beliefs that a shadowy network of satanic pedophiles is controlling the world and that President Donald Trump is working behind the scenes to combat the network. Followers believe that an anonymous user on an online image board is posting clues to them in the form of riddles and that one day the clues will be proven true when Trump unleashes a wave of mass arrests and executions.

Villa has used posted about QAnon on social media and appeared at the 2020 Conservative Political Action Conference wearing QAnon-styled earrings. Last year, Villa was scheduled to speak at a QAnon conference alongside leading proponents of the conspiracy theory.

Thursday’s hearing is scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m. villa’s scheduled appearance before the House Judiciary is just the latest intersection between QAnon and high-ranking Republicans. QAnon believer Marjorie Taylor Greene is highly likely to win her election in Georgia this November, which would make her the first member of the U.S. House of Representatives to have explicitly supported the conspiracy theory.

Right Wing Watch attempted to reach Villa for clarification on her views regarding QAnon via Twitter direct message Thursday but did not immediately receive a response. We will update this article if we hear back.

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/conservative-writer-warns-the-gop-is-increasingly-embracing-the-utter-lunacy-of-qanon/

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Conservative writer warns the GOP is increasingly embracing the ‘utter lunacy’ of QAnon

Written by Alex Henderson August 14, 2020

On Tuesday, August 11, the QAnon conspiracy cult enjoyed a major victory when far-right QAnon supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene won a Republican primary in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District and was congratulated by President Donald Trump — who wasn’t the least bit troubled by her pro-QAnon views. And veteran conservative pundit/author Mona Charen, in an article published in The Bulwark on August 13, laments the willingness of prominent Republicans to endorse those who embrace the “utter lunacy” of QAnon.

The QAnon cult believes that Trump was elected president to combat an international pedophile/child sex ring that operates within the U.S. government and that an anonymous figure named “Q” is providing updates on Trump’s battle. Greene, in a 2017 video that has been posted on YouTube, expressed her solidarity with QAnon. And considering how deeply Republican her district is, Greene has a very good chance of defeating the Democratic candidate, tech worker Kevin Van Ausdale, in November and taking a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in January 2021.

Charen explains: “Pizzagate morphed into the QAnon conspiracy in which Q followers wait for signals from their leader that a vast conspiracy of Satanic child abusers, run by the ‘Deep State,’ George Soros, the Supreme Court, and God knows who else is about to be unmasked. Did I mention that they think Beyoncé is only pretending to be black? It’s a hydra-headed thing, this conspiracy, and contains multitudes. But the one common thread is this: the great deliverer will be Donald J. Trump.”

QAnon, Charen writes, is a “paranoid conspiracy (theory that) has gathered momentum at the Republican grassroots.”

Greene is not an anomaly: support for QAnon has been growing in the Republican Party.

“No fewer than 60 current or former congressional candidates have expressed interest in or support for the QAnon conspiracy,” Charen laments. “One of them, Jo Rae Perkins, got the Republican nomination for Senate in Oregon. And now, Marjorie Taylor Greene seems almost certain to be going to Congress.”

Charen notes that although some prominent Republicans condemned Greene — including Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise — Trump and others have embraced her.

“Greene received backing from the House Freedom Fund, an arm of the House Freedom Caucus,” Charen observes. “Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio and former Rep. Mark Meadows, now Trump’s chief of staff, also backed Greene.”

To make matters worse, Charen adds, Greene critics like Kinzinger are being slammed by Trump supporters for speaking out against her.

Voters in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, Charen points out, could have chosen her GOP primary rival, Dr. John Cowan — who she describes as a “gun-rights-supporting, anti-abortion Trump loyalist” — to run against Van Ausdale. Instead, they went with someone even further to the right: a QAnon extremist.

“It’s odd that Republicans, who pride themselves on their practical understanding of life — incentives matter, money doesn’t grow on trees, personal responsibility is essential to a well-ordered society — should display such a marked weakness for utter lunacy,” Charen laments. “I don’t offer an explanation, just a warning. This disordered thinking is no longer just a fringe phenomenon.”

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"gym" jordan:

https://www.newsweek.com/jim-jordan-dennis-hastert-ohio-state-alleged-sexual-abuse-bill-maher-1472204

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U.S.

Bill Maher Compares GOP Congressman Jim Jordan to Dennis Hastert Amid Sex Abuse allegations

BY BENJAMIN FEARNOW ON 11/16/19

Bill Maher ridiculed Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan's alleged role in allowing dozens of teenage boys to be raped or sexually abused by a team doctor during Jordan's previous tenure as Ohio State University assistant wrestling coach.

The Real Time with Bill Maher host on Friday compared Jordan, whom he described as the "Republican impeachment star," to former GOP Congressman and fellow wrestling coach, Dennis Hastert. In a scathing monologue using blunt sexual description, Maher questioned why two "creepy wrestling coaches" went on to become top Republican Party members of Congress. Jordan is accused in lawsuits of allowing the now-deceased team doctor to sexually abuse young boys and male students as he worked alongside him for more than eight years.

"Yeah, yeah, we know," Jordan and the then-OSU wrestling head coach, Russ Hellickson, allegedly replied to one plaintiff who said the team doctor sexually abused him after a 1994 match.

As reported by WKYC, Jordan has adamantly denied the allegations and claimed they are politically motivated. But on Friday, Maher compared the accusations to the 2016 conviction of Hastert, whom a federal judge sentenced to 15 months in prison for pay-off crimes tied to being a "serial child molester," according to The New York Times.

"Jim Jordan, he's a former wrestling coach, who the players say knew that the team doctor was sexually abusing a lot of the players-and he did nothing about it," Maher said. "Now to be fair to Jim Jordan, he is not accused of abusing any of the players himself, he just stood by and did nothing while horrible things happened: so good practice for the hearing."

"This is all 'alleged,' but you know, a million people say it," Maher added.

Maher used his typical twist of comedy and political punditry to blast Jordan, who has become one of the top defenders of President Donald Trump during House impeachment hearings.

"Have you seen the Republican impeachment star, Jim Jordan, of Ohio?" Maher continued. "He always looks like a guy who's about to get in a bar fight and tells somebody, 'hold my jacket.' I believe Republicans keep him in a cage and they feed him Red Bull and crystal meth, they shoot his ass with steroids and then they unleash him on the hearing room."

Maher compared Jordan to Hastert, who in 2016 became the highest-ranking elected official in U.S. history to serve a prison sentence after he was convicted of trying to pay "hush money" to boys he later admitted sexually abusing while he was a Yorkville, Illinois wrestling coach.

Hastert is the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in U.S. history, and was released from federal prison in July 2017.

"Jim Jordan is the second wrestling coach turned Republican congressman who has had a sex scandal having to do with the wrestling children," Maher said. "Dennis Hastert anybody?...He was also a creepy wrestling coach. What are the odds?"

A federal lawsuit with hundreds of plaintiffs alleges Ohio State University officials, including Jordan, were aware that now-deceased doctor Richard Strauss was sexually abusing boys as young as 14-15 years old for years and did nothing about the alleged heinous acts. One plaintiff, identified as John Doe 42, said he told Jordan and Hellickson that Strauss masturbated on him in the shower after a match, which the two shrugged off.

"Yeah, that's Strauss," Jordan and Hellickson replied, according to the latest lawsuit. John Doe 42 is the second plaintiff to accuse Jordan of being explicitly aware of sexual abuse and taking no action. Former Ohio State wrestler Dunyasha Yetts was the first to accuse of Jordan of being complicit in the team doctor's alleged crimes.

"It's good that people are starting to come forward and say the truth, which is that Jordan and the other coaches knew what was going on and they blew it off," Yetts told NBC News last week.

"It was common knowledge what Strauss was doing, so the attitude was it is what it is," he said. "I wish Jim, and Russ, too, would stand up and do the right thing and admit they knew what Strauss was doing, because everybody knew what he was doing to the wrestlers. What was a shock to me is that Strauss tried to do that to me. He was breaking new ground by going after a ref."

bill maher jim jordan hastert

Bill Maher compared Jim Jordan to former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert, both of whom are tied to sexual abuse allegations of boys in wrestling programs while they were coaches.

booktv burning down the house on newt invention of hyper-partisan; says gop has trump card b/c they can always threaten the shut down/ or even wreck gov't b/c their premise is gov't is bad/does not work (bonus is it's a cover for ineptutude or even corruption?!

https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/loudmouthed-bully-jim-jordan-slammed-for-mounting-stunningly-lunkheaded-on-dr-fauci/

https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/watch-fauci-laughs-as-republican-jim-jordan-attempts-to-get-him-to-call-for-banning-protests/

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rep scanlon refs to him as conspir theory, flynn emails "unmasking" deep state BS?

https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/rep-jim-jordan-yells-and-throws-a-hearing-into-chaos-over-his-fringe-conspiracy-theories/

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on hse comm judic nadler? wm barr test

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/gops-jim-jordan-torched-for-conspiratorial-rant-at-bill-barr-hearing-a-living-youtube-message-board/

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Tuesday went on a conspiratorial rant against former FBI officials who investigated President Donald Trump’s campaign for its contacts with Russian agents — and then got roundly mocked for sounding like a sentient “YouTube message board.”

At the start of the hearing, Jordan accused Democrats of attacking Barr for his attempts to uncovered purported “spying” on the Trump campaign by the Obama administration, and even accused former President Barack Obama of sending a “secret agent lady” to investigate former Trump campaign official George Papadopoulos.

Jordan’s rant earned him immediate scorn on Twitter — check out some reactions below.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/jim-jordan-tells-fox-news-jeanine-pirro-he-wants-congress-to-investigate-governors-for-coronavirus-shutdown-orders/

https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/11/16/gop-accuses-trump-of-lying-to-mueller-in-latest-defense-against-impeachment/

JIM JORDAN ACCUSES TRUMP OF LYING TO MUELLER IN LATEST DEFENSE AGAINST IMPEACHMENT

November 16, 2019/46 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, 2020 Presidential Election, Impeachment /by emptywheel

Among the efforts Republicans employed to excuse the President’s inexcusable behavior in yesterday’s impeachment hearing, they tried to lay out reasons why Trump could legitimately think Ukraine was out to get him. Among the things Steve Castor laid out includes an op-ed Ukraine’s then Ambassador to the US Valeriy Chaly placed in the Hill in early August 2016, laying out how outrageous it was that Trump had recently suggested he would entertain recognizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

“Can you see how the simple fact of writing an op-ed, the Ukrainian Ambassador to the US might create a perception that there are elements of the Ukrainian establishment were advocating against then-candidate Trump,” GOP counsel Steve Castor asked about an op-ed in which Ukraine’s Ambassador defended the territorial integrity of his country and invoked resolutions where the US had committed to do so too. “That’s a tremendously sensitive issue in Ukraine,” Marie Yovanovitch explained, as if it weren’t evident.

In spite of how obvious that explanation for the op-ed is, Jim Jordan nevertheless returned to this attack, claiming that the op-ed was an example of an Ambassador trying to influence a host country election and suggesting Yovanovitch was negligent in not telling Ukraine to stop defending its territorial integrity. (Jordan also lobbed the Nellie Ohr attack that even Devin Nunes seems to have recognized constituted an attack on an experienced organized crime researcher being paid by GOP billionaire Paul Singer.)

Republicans are not outraged by John Solomon’s hit job in the Hill targeting an Ambassador who has served presidents of both parties, they’re not outraged that Mike Flynn was writing an op-ed to be placed in the Hill that was paid for by the Turkish state even while getting Top Secret briefings with Trump as candidate.

They are, however, outraged that a Hill op-ed by Ukraine’s Ambassador to the US points out that America has made past commitments to protect Ukraine’s territorial integrity.

But there’s something still crazier about this line of defense.

Chaly’s op-ed could only be viewed as an attack on Trump if he did, in fact, advocate recognizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Otherwise, the op-ed would simply be a matter of policy, as Yovanovitch patiently explained to Castor.

And it turns out that Trump has represented, in an answer submitted under oath to Robert Mueller, that he had no policy stance on Crimea. Mueller asked whether the very comments that the Chaly op-ed addressed represented an intention to recognize Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

On July 27, 2016, in response to a question about whether you would recognize Crimea as Russian territory and lift sanctions on Russia, you said: “We’ ll be looking at that. Yeah, we’ll be looking.” Did you intend to communicate by that statement or at any other time during the campaign a willingness to lift sanctions and/or recognize Russia’s annexation of Crimea if you were elected?

1. What consideration did you give to lifting sanctions and/or recognizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea if you were elected? Describe who you spoke with about this topic, when, the substance of the discussion(s).

And while this answer was the most unresponsive among a slew of unresponsive answers, Trump nevertheless stated, under oath, that his statement did not amount to a policy position.

My statement did not communicate any position.

Republicans can’t have this both ways. The only way this op-ed could be an attack on Trump is if Trump really was supporting annexation of Crimea. He may well have been — except he has stated, under oath, that he was not.

Treating this op-ed as an attack on Trump, then, is also an accusation that Trump lied in his sworn answers to Mueller.

Why is Jim Jordan defending President Trump against impeachment by accusing him of lying under oath?

Tags: Jim Jordan, John Solomon, Marie Yovanovitch, Mike Flynn, Steve Castor, Valeriy Chaly

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rep-jim-jordan-uses-anti-muslim-activists-email-list-to-fundraise-on-impeachment/

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impeach gop yellers:

"i am not yielding’: Watch Rep. Pramila Jayapal shut down Jim Jordan’s attempt to hijack impeachment hearing

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https://www.alternet.org/2019/11/donald-trump-and-his-insane-clown-posse/

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JJ pounds the table, bullies sondland (who implicated pompeo, bolton...) 11/20/19

ep. Jim Jordan of Ohio addressed a group of conservatives at the Leadership Institute this morning in Arlington, Virginia, for the organization’s Wednesdays Wake-Up Club breakfast series, where he advised those in attendance to avoid talking about socialism and instead frame conversations that would otherwise involve the topic around “the loss of freedom.”

Jordan is a member of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, which was responsible for pushing former speaker John Boehner from power, and has evolved as a group that reliably attacks those who challenge President Donald Trump.

The Leadership Institute is a Washington, D.C., organization that trains right-wing activists, often college-aged or younger, on messaging and activism for conservative causes, and recruits future candidates for elected office with training on how to run a campaign. Scheduled workshops for the month of May include sessions on fundraising, grant writing, communications, debate, and media appearances. The group aims to train mainstream conservative groups, but occasionally far-right activists have enrolled in its training workshops and used those lessons for their own causes. Among those who have received training from LI are James O’Keefe of Project Veritas and Ralph Reed, the Republican political operative who leads the Faith and Freedom Coalition.

Leadership Institute president Morton C. Blackwell opened up the event by talking about ongoing conflicts in Venezuela, where the United States has voiced its support for forces in the country that oppose the embattled President Nicolas Maduro.

“I choose not to predict what is going to happen, but if I had to bet, I would put my money on Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton,” Blackwell said.

Bolton claims that “key figures” in the Maduro regime “committed to support ousting Maduro,” and has been calling on them to “fulfill their commitments.”

After reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and listening to remarks by an intern and a program director at the Leadership Institute, audience members heard from Jordan. The Ohio congressman began his remarks by praising the Leadership Institute, where he said he received media training there early in Congressional career. He went on to say that policies being pushed by prominent figures in the Democratic Party—measures on immigration and voting rights—were among “some of the most radical positions” he had ever seen.

“The reason I think the left is so crazy—they don’t start from the same premise we do. They really don’t, and I think this is important to understand. I think everyone in this room believes that we live in the greatest nation in history. The left doesn’t start there. They think America is just one of the 190-some countries on the planet,” Jordan said. “And when you start from the wrong premise, I think that leads to all kinds of problems.”

Then Jordan told Leadership Institute attendees that the message from the right, when you boil it all down, is: “Freedom is under attack right now in this country.” He cited the debunked notion that conservatives were being “shadow banned” by the social media platforms of technology companies, the rise of “politically correct” environments on college campuses, and Democrats advocating for “big government” and using that power to attack conservatives. Jordan went on advise that conservatives find ways to re-frame their critiques of socialism.

“Don’t talk about socialism. Talk about the loss of freedom,” Jordan told Leadership Institute.

He continued, “It’s about a system that takes away freedom. When you don’t have capitalism, free markets, free enterprise, liberty, freedom, fundamental rights protected, bad things happen, and we are seeing it play out on TV right now in Venezuela. So, our charge is talk what the loss of freedom looks like and how great we’ve had it in this country. If we do that, we’ll be just fine.”

Tags: Jim JordanLeadership Institute

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Ohio farmer who voted for Trump mulls independent Congress run against Jim Jordan: ‘We hold kryptonite to this president in our shirt pockets’

Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio has been a favorite of…

https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/jim-jordan-and-gop-battered-by-cnn-panel-for-blatant-lying-about-damning-state-department-texts/

House Freedom Caucus votes to condemn one of its founding members over Trump impeachment comments

https://www.alternet.org/2019/05/ocasio-cortez-bathes-in-republican-tears-gop-congressman-triggered-by-attack-on-big-pharma

After taking back the House in the November midterms, in large part because of health care, Democrats held their first hearing in January on the rising and often exorbitant cost of prescription drugs. This week, the House majority followed up with a package of legislation aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs and reversing the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.

Essentially, Democrats dared Republicans to vote against lower drug prices because of their longstanding opposition to Obamacare. The gambit worked,...with the trio of bills passing on Thursday with the support of five Republicans. Furthermore, this move made clear that some in the GOP are quicker to cry tears in defense of corporate profits than for the Americans dependent on lifesaving medicine that is many times more expensive in the U.S. than other developed nations....At a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing this week, Republicans howled in bitter protest after Democrats dared to question the massive profits claimed by leading pharmaceutical companies while millions can’t afford lifesaving medications.

Daniel O’Day, the chairman and CEO of Gilead, was grilled by Democratic lawmakers on Thursday. Although Gilead is the leading US manufacturer of HIV drugs, only about 18% of the 1.1 million people in the U.S. at risk for HIV infections are currently taking its prevention drug Truvada. Democrats contended that that means preventable infections are occurring every day because of Gilead’s business model.

Gilead charged $800 a month for Truvada when it was introduced in 2004. It now costs nearly $2000 a month and has earned Gilead about $36 billion since it was approved in 2004.

“How can Gilead do this?” Oversight Committee chair Elijah Cummings, D-Md., asked O’Day. “This treatment was developed as a result of investment made by the American taxpayers.” Cummings then answered his own question, saying that “the problem is that Gilead, the company that now sells the drug, charges astronomical prices.”

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) originally filed a patent application for Truvada in 2006, after it discovered the drug’s ability to prevent HIV infection in a federal primate lab in Atlanta.

“How can our system allow a company to take a drug treatment that was developed with taxpayer funds and abuse its monopoly to charge such astronomical prices?” Cummings pressed O’Day.

Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., also piled on O’Day. “You’re the CEO of Gilead. Is it true that Gilead made $3 billion in profits from Truvada in 2018?” she asked.

“The current list price is $2,000 a month in the United States, correct?” she continued. “Why is it $8 in Australia?”

“There’s no reason this should be $2,000 a month,” Ocasio-Cortez insisted. “People are dying because of it and there’s no enforceable reason for it.”

O’Day argued that the astronomical price difference is due to government regulation, not corporate greed.

“Truvada still has patent protection in the United States and in the rest of the world it is generic,” he replied. “It will be generically available in the United States as of September 2020.”

“We the people developed this drug!” Ocasio-Cortez shot back.

After another freshman Democrat, Rep. Katie Hill of California, questioned the CEO about the company’s revenue, which she quoted at $22 billion in 2018, and the compensation of its highest-ranking executives, including O’Day’s recent $30 million signing bonus, Republicans lost it.

“I just cannot understand why we are spending time sitting here listening to people lecturing companies about making money. I hope you make a lot of money,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said in a two-minute outburst.

“But to sit here and attack the capitalistic system that produces and distributes medicine that is saving lives around the world? I mean it is just offensive!”

Roy, a freshman Republican who won election last November by just 3 percentage points, continued with his sour-faced, hand-waving tirade: “I hope you make a lot of money! … How much cash on hand does Apple have? $245 billion. How much has Apple done to go cure health?”

He was later joined in indignation by the committee’s ranking Republican member Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio.

“Rather than applaud Gilead for manufacturing this miracle drug, they wish to demonize the company for making a profit,” said Jordan, who complained in April in letters to the drug companies that he believed his committee’s investigation was a partisan attempt to influence stock prices. “I fear that my colleagues are using today’s hearing as a platform to strong-arm private companies making breakthrough discoveries, all because they are upset at how markets work. The reality is that while Gilead has made money on this drug there doesn’t seem to be genuine issues with access.”

Medical experts, however, appear to disagree.

“I believe that the root cause of low access is the high price of the medication,” testified Dr. Robert Grant, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rep-jim-jordan-to-leadership-institute-dont-talk-about-socialism/

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https://www.alternet.org/2019/04/siding-with-big-pharma-republicans-warn-ceos-not-to-cooperate-with-democrats-drug-price-probe

As Democrats on the House Oversight Committee attempt to investigate soaring drug prices in the U.S., Republicans are warning the CEOs of some of America’s largest pharmaceutical companies against cooperating with the probe.

Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), leaders of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, sent letters (pdf) to a dozen drug company CEOs “warning that information they provide to the committee could be leaked to the public by Democratic chair Elijah Cummings in an effort to tank their stock prices,...Cummings, a Democrat from Maryland, launched his investigation in January with a request for “information and communications on price increases, investments in research and development, and corporate strategies to preserve market share and pricing power” from pharmaceutical giants such as Pfizer, Novartis, Johnson & Johnson, and others.

In their letters to the same pharmaceutical companies, Jordan and Meadows suggested that Cummings is attempting to obtain information that “would likely harm the competitiveness of your company if disclosed publicly.”...“While we cannot speculate about Chairman Cummings’s motives, we believe the committee should not pursue an investigation to ‘impact… stock prices with regard to drugs’—especially when there is bipartisan interest in real oversight of rising prescription drug prices,” the Republicans wrote in their letters, dated April 5....The [Republicans’] letter quotes Cummings as saying of his drug team: “If you follow the headlines, we have already seen the impact they have had… on stock prices with regard to drugs. I mean, it has been astronomical.” The letter omits the rest of the sentence: “saving the taxpayers money.”

In the edited quote, Cummings seems to be bragging about an “astronomical” impact on drug company stocks. In the context of his statements before and after, he seems to be saying the “astronomical” impact is on taxpayer savings, which justify giving his committee more resources. A minute later he says: “Whatever you all give us, we will give it back in savings by rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse.”...Cummings said Jordan—the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee—”is on the absolute wrong side here.”...“He would rather protect drug company ‘stock prices’ than the interests of the American people,” Cummings added....Economist and University of California, Berkeley professor Robert Reich expressed agreement with Cummings,... “Once again, they’re siding with Big Pharma at the expense of the American people.”

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https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/how-trumps-capitol-hill-hitman-is-trying-to-shut-down-house-inquiries-and-waging-a-nonstop-war-of-obstruction/

If former Intelligence Committee chair Devin Nunes was Donald Trump’s greatest congressional weapon when Republicans controlled the House of Representatives, the president has a new hitman now. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, a Freedom Caucus member who ran unsuccessfully against Kevin McCarthy for the minority leadership, is now the president’s principal warrior against the Democratic majority, waging a nonstop war of obstruction.

Jordan serves as ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, where — along with fellow Freedom Caucus member Mark Meadows of North Carolina — he attained right-wing celebrity status during the Michael Cohen hearing. Jordan has loudly objected to any and all Democratic efforts to probe the Trump administration or the president’s personal and business finances. Instead, he has pressured Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to assign a brand new special counsel to investigate alleged anti-Trump bias on Robert Mueller’s team of federal prosecutors — and even tried to have Rosenstein impeached.

When Republican Rep. Jim Jordan does not want to see evidence of a crime, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan will not see evidence of that crime. That is the Jim Jordan Way, whether it be in a college locker room or in the White House, and the man is extremely dedicated to the bit....still not content after a bizarre performance as chief Republican naysayer in Trump fixer Michael Cohen’s public testimony to the House Oversight Committee this week, Jordan took himself to Meet the Press today to further dismiss the federal investigation into Russian election hacking and its links to the Donald Trump presidential campaign. How committed is Jordan to that cause? Committed enough that the man has not allowed even a scintilla of news, in these last two years, to enter his innocent head....He’s not even willing to agree that the Putin government’s espionage efforts towards throwing the U.S. elections were done to advantage Donald Trump.

[CHUCK TODD] Do you believe [they were trying to impact the election?][JIM JORDAN] Yeah, of course that’s what the intelligence community told us. But there is zero evidence—

[TODD] Do you believe they did it to try to help Donald Trump win?

[JORDAN] Who knows why they did it. But there is zero evidence—

[TODD] Do you believe it’s possible that Russians for their own foreign policy reasons wanted Trump not Clinton?

[JORDAN] I don’t know. They can, they can do whatever they’re trying to do, who knows what their motives were, what I know is there is not one bit of evidence to show there was any type of coordination, collusion, conspiracy whatsoever between the campaign and Russia to impact the election. But there is all kind of evidence that the Clinton campaign worked with Russians to impact the election via that whole thing I just described where they […]

The U.S. intelligence community reached the conclusion that the Russian efforts sought to benefit Donald Trump and undermine Hillary Clinton over two years ago; for Jim Jordan to still be unclear on that particular detail is an impressive effort at self-imposed blindness even for the former wrestling coach.

Similarly, there is quite a bit of evidence of “coordination, collusion, conspiracy”—the very point of the Robert Mueller-led investigation—in the various court filings already presented in the case. Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, currently mouldering in a jail cell, is now known to have handed off 75 pages of detailed Trump polling data to a man with ties to Russian intelligence. Trump confidante Roger Stone is now known to have had contacts with those that leaked the Russia-gathered hacked Democratic materials, and possibly foreknowledge of the publication of those materials. Trump offspring Donald Trump Jr. is now known to have organized a Trump Tower meeting between campaign officials and a cut-out for the Russian government in which the Russians offered information about Clinton and pressed the Trump campaign for the relaxation of sanctions against Russia, if Trump won the presidency. Donald Trump himself was instrumental in crafting a misleading statement attempting to obscure the importance of that meeting, and did so on his way back from a private one-on-one meeting with Putin in Helsinki.

Jordan went on to repeat, yet again, the hoariest and most addled of Team Trump takes, attempting to claim that the Clinton campaign “worked with Russians” because Christopher Steele, the former British spy who probed the Trump family’s curious ties to Russian figures, talked to Russians as part of his probe. (By this logic, the FBI is conspiring with drug dealers, your local police department is conspiring with drunk drivers, and Jim Jordan has conspired with serial sexual predators.)

This is a man who is very, very, very committed to not understanding even the rough outlines of the Russia hacking investigation. He is so committed that he has not updated his rote bullet-point condemnations of the probe in over two years; he is doing his level best to pretend at being a just-awakened coma patient.

Why? What does Rep. Jim Jordan, like Reps. Devin Nunes, Mark Meadows and others, gain from public protestations of Donald Trump’s innocence—or from the pretense of Paul Manafort or Rick Gates or Roger Stone’s innocence? Why is this man so determined to stake his entire reputation and career on denying even the idea that the Russian government’s actions were carried out to boost Trump?

Just what is Jordan’s implausible, almost comical naivety meant to accomplish?

https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/jim-jordan-is-still-misleading-the-public-about-the-russian-election-hacking-probe/

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https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/08/rep-jim-jordan-vies-for-speaker-as-atypical-fundraiser

juduciary subcomm on voter ID (o'keefe bs video)

elected 2007?

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wrestling molestation scandal, ryan stands by ( in line for spkr gig) 7/18

mmfa

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) has been accused of knowing about, and failing to act on, sexual abuse by the team doctor during his tenure as assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University. Multiple former athletes have accused Dr. Richard Strauss of sexual misconduct and have claimed that Jordan knew or must have known about the abuse yet failed to act.

Jordan, who is also the co-founder of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, has denied the accusations, claiming he was unaware of any abuse. During a July 6 appearance on Fox News’ Special Report, he was quick to attack multiple accusers, criticized CNN for hosting a former wrestler to discuss the claims, and stokedconspiracy theories by claiming that “the timing” of the accusations “is suspect” because he’s about to launch a campaign for speaker of the House. Allies of the conservative congressman have been equally resolute in their defense, with both President Donald Trump and outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) backing Jordan, and the entire Freedom Caucus voting to officially support him.

Unsurprisingly, right-wing media have also jumped to Jordan’s defense, suggesting that the accusations are no more than a politically motivated smear. Here are some of right-wing media’s defenses:

Fox Business host Lou Dobbs criticized Ryan for failing to immediately defend Jordan from “suspiciously timed smear campaigns.” He also called the accusations “a smear campaign of the vilest sort” and saidJordan has been “dishonorably attacked by the left."

The Daily Caller ran an article attacking some of the accusers, arguing that their “sketchy history” raises questions about their “authenticity.”

Fox News contributor David Bossie tweeted that Jordan is “an honest man of unparalleled integrity” and “the scurrilous allegations against him are absurd - perpetrated by the fake news media and liberals with an agenda to stop Congressman Jordan.”

Radio host Wayne Dupree claimed the accusations were a “hit job” and argued that the story “seems like an inside job from our side that doesn't want a conservative becoming Speaker of the House.” He also called the accusations a “sex smear” and said that they have solidified his “unequivocal support” for Jordan.

Townhall’s Kurt Schlichter called the accusations “sudden” and “convenient,” claimed multiple timesthat the story was “bullshit,” blamed the victims, and suggested there was a “coordinated” liberal response to the wrestlers’ claims.

Media Research Center’s Brent Bozell said the accusations reek of “dirty tricks” and implied that they were made to derail Jordan’s campaign to join Republican House leadership.

During Rush Limbaugh’s July 6 radio show -- titled “With Paul Manafort in Solitary, Deep State Targets Jim Jordan” -- the radio host argued that the accusations against Jordan are just the result of “opposition research” and claimed they emerged “because he’s had a successful interrogation period with [Deputy Attorney General] Rod Rosenstein and is being mentioned for possible speaker.” Limbaugh also attacked the victims’ histories and stoked conspiracy claims by noting that the “the leading Democrat law firm in all of fascist Democrat America,” Perkins Coie, is investigating the wrestlers’ accusations. Gateway Pundit made similar accusations, blaming the deep state, and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) also told Dobbs that the deep state was to blame.

The Daily Wire ran an article that called the “timing of these allegations… suspect,” because they have come out only when “Jordan was considering a run to replace Paul Ryan (R-WI) as speaker of the House.”

Infowars’ Owen Shroyer claimed “intimidation tactics” were being used against Jordan, argued there are “a bunch of holes in this” story, and said, “It seems to me like this is just another case of the Clinton crime machine trying to intimidate Americans who are standing up to them.”

Infowars’ Roger Stone rejected the accusations as a “smear tactic” and “a hit piece” and argued that Jordan is being targeted for his criticism of Rosenstein.

https://www.alternet.org/trumps-gop-house-henchmen-lay-groundwork-hold-top-doj-official-overseeing-russia-probe-contempt

Ryan caved to Donald Trump's Russia hatchet squad and now the GOP caucus is closer than ever to delivering Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein an ultimatum: hand over every sensitive document they want on the Russia probe or be held in contempt and possibly impeached. Bloomberg writes:

Passing the resolution would escalate pressure on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to hand over material, including some related to the origins of the investigation into whether Donald Trump’s presidential campaign colluded with Russian meddling in the 2016 election. The measure would give Rosenstein and other officials until July 6 to comply.

The resolution itself doesn't explicitly reference impeachment or even contempt and it's effectively unenforceable, but the House henchmen have been hanging that threat over Rosenstein's head for months. GOP Reps. Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan, so-called Freedom Caucus staples, now say the resolution is coming to the House floor on Thursday, contingent on the Rules Committee giving it final approval Wednesday afternoon.

full House vote would supercharge a battle that has primarily been waged by a handful of GOP zealots into potentially having the imprimatur of the entire Republican caucus. The showdown comes as both Rosenstein and FBI director Christopher Wray prepare to testify before the House Judiciary Committee Thursday morning about the agency's Inspector General report on the Clinton email investigation.

Rosenstein does not appear to be without some recourse. He has already threatened to request that the House conduct an internal investigation of the House Intelligence Committee staff. Though it's unclear where that stands, doing so would give him the ability to subpoena the internal communications of the staff.

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https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/house-republicans-want-straight-break-actual-system-law-itself

House Republicans are attacking the Department of Justice and by extension the special counsel's Russia probe on so many fronts it's impossible to keep track. Freedom Caucus chair Mark Meadows's new tact is to push for a federal audit of Robert Mueller under the guise of oversight in order to get an unredacted copy of the "scope memo," which lays out the boundaries of his Russia investigation. The Washington Post writes:

Meadows, speaking Thursday during a taping of C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” that is to air Sunday, said he believed the audit is required under federal law and could not be completed without an unredacted copy of the memo written in August 2017 by Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein. [...]

Meadows and fellow Freedom Caucus member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has pushed for weeks to get unfettered access to the memo, but the Justice Department has so far refused them access. Only a heavily redacted version has been publicly shared as part of the prosecution of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort because, according to people familiar with the Justice Department’s thinking, prosecutors think its full disclosure could compromise Mueller’s probe

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Washington, the anti-Trump resistance talks about a "constitutional crisis" while the president and his allies decry a "rigged system." They’re using different vocabulary to describe the same thing: the coming death match fight for control of the U.S. legal system.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder and others are waking up to the reality expressed by Josh Marshall: "The Plot Is Afoot" to dump special prosecutor Robert Mueller and there is no longer any institutional force or political will sufficient to prevent Trump from carrying it out. It’s just a matter of time.

The Republicans who once praised Mueller or warned against his firing have announced retirement, fallen silent or turned into Trump toadies. Of the six phases in the campaign to get rid of Mueller, I wrote last week, four have already been completed.

As Holder tweeted on Sunday:

ABSOLUTE RED LINE: the firing of Bob Mueller or crippling the special counsel’s office. If removed or meaningfully tampered with, there must be mass, popular, peaceful support of both. The American people must be seen and heard - they will ultimately be determinative.

— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) December 17, 2017

Holder’s intervention, while welcome, has dismal implications. According to the man who was once the nation’s top law enforcement officer, the weakness and impending failure of Washington institutions is practically certain. That protest in support of Mueller, an uncharismatic former FBI man, will be massive, popular and peaceful is far from certain.

The truth is that the “red line” of Washington consensus that protects the special prosecutor process has been eroded by the anti-Mueller campaign, which cultivates fear and anger to depict the mechanism of accountability as a threat, not just to Trump, but to America itself.

The demonization campaign is multipronged. Justice Department officials leakedthe private texts of FBI agent Peter Strzok, since removed from the investigation, who opposed Trump’s election. Breitbart and Fox News supply the analysis.

Congressmen are deployed as conspiracy theorists disguised as whistleblowers. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) says, “Everything points to the fact that there was an orchestrated plan to try to prevent Donald Trump from becoming the president of the United States.”

The rhetoric of rage, disgust and control add emotional force to the pro-Trump narrative. “Will you rein in the FBI,” cries a conservative reporter. People are "very, very angry about the FBI," Trump responded, adding, “we have a lot of sickness in some of our institutions.”

And the president’s son has provided the marketing slogan: “My father talked about a rigged system throughout the campaign, and people went, ‘Oh, what are you talking about?’ But it is,” Donald Trump Jr. said. “There are people at the highest levels of government that don’t want to let America be America."

“Let America be America” is the full flowering of the anti-Mueller narrative. This isn't about Russia, the argument goes, this is about America. Since Steve Bannon returned to Breitbart News, the right-wing media have layered on other Washington storylines, which have little or no substantive connection to the Russia investigation....

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The conservative House Freedom Caucus is considering hiring a former Tom DeLay aide who was a figure in a 2005 Washington lobbying corruption scandal, Politico reports.

Ed Buckham, DeLay's former chief of staff, interviewed to be the group's executive director — and is a front-runner for the spot, Politico reports, citing unnamed sources.

A spokesman for the chairman of the Freedom Caucus, Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, said interviews were underway for the position but declined to provide specifics.

The group's former executive director Steve Chartan left to work as legislative director to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Politico reports.

"We're very close," DeLay tells Politico about his relationship with Buckham. "To be honest with you, it would be the smartest thing the Freedom Caucus could do. He's saved my career many times."

Buckham's son Matt is the communications director for the Freedom Caucus, Politico reports.

Buckham's former lobbying firm, Alexander Strategies Group, represented powerful corporations and trade associations that wanted access to DeLay and other top House Republicans, Politico reports.

The firm folded in the wake of a Justice Department investigation of Jack Abramoff, a confidant of DeLay and Buckram who spent more than three-and-a-half years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a variety of federal charges, including fraud, conspiracy to bribe public officials and tax evasion.

Abramoff said he and Buckham "were very close," but that he hadn't spoken to him in years, Politico reports.

Jim Jordan, Ohio Congressman, Sought Energy Loans From Program Whose Judgment He Questioned

The Huffington Post | By Lucia Graves

Posted: 04/26/2013 3:25 pm EDT | Updated: 04/26/2013 4:21 pm EDT

In a contentious House subcommittee hearing more than a little reminiscent of the Solyndra hearings, Republicans on Wednesday attacked the Department of Energy for its investment in struggling electric car company Fisker Automotive.

Fisker laid off a majority of its workers this month after receiving $192 million in federal aid as part of the Obama administration's Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing loan program, designed to aid car companies pursuing energy efficiency.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Oversight Committee's economic growth, job creation and regulatory affairs subcommittee, said at Wednesday's hearing that the department should never have given California-based Fisker a loan in the first place. "Fisker should have never received taxpayer money," Jordan said. "It was rated triple-C plus. It was a junk-grade investment."

Fisker is yet another car manufacturer that finds itself struggling after applying for money from the department's ATVM program, alongside Coda Automotive. That company, based in Ohio, had also sought a loan from Energy, and among the lawmakers who pushed for that loan was Jordan.

In a July 12, 2010, letter to then-Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Jordan was one of a handful of Ohio lawmakers to request a loan guarantee for Coda, a short-lived electric vehicle company that put its flagship store up for sale earlier this year. "Given Ohio's world-class manufacturing infrastructure and central location," the lawmakers wrote in their letter, "we believe that our state could serve as the heart of America's new electrification system." Less than two years later, Coda has released most of its staff.

Jordan was also among the Ohio lawmakers to request a loan guarantee for the commercialization of the American Centrifuge Plant, a uranium enrichment facility in Piketon, Ohio. With its rating of triple-C, the plant represents a riskier investment than Fisker did with a rating of triple-C plus.

Jordan's spokeswoman Meghan Snyder notes that the Coda loan never came through. The uranium enrichment facility comparison, she argues, is unfair.

"There are only four entities in the world that enrich uranium, and we are banned by law from buying weapons-grade uranium from foreign sources," she wrote in an email to HuffPost. "In a joint letter from the Ohio delegation, we asked for a loan guarantee using the centrifuge technology as collateral: if the company does not succeed commercially, the government will own the technology. Piketon presented an opportunity for our country to obtain enriched uranium that is needed for national defense. Unlike Wednesday's Fisker hearing, there was no competition to Piketon and the government was not in a position of picking winners and losers."

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jim_Jordan

Jim Jordan, a Republican, has represented the Fourth Congressional District of Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2007. (map)

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Record and controversies

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Iraq War

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Environmental record

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Jim Jordan - Energy and the Environment

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Energy and Natural Resources

America is far too dependent on Middle Eastern oil. Having suffered years of record high gas prices, the American people deserve greater freedom from Middle Eastern manipulation of the oil markets. We need to increase domestic oil and gas supply by exploring and utilizing more of the energy resources we have at home. We must also help keep our nation on the cutting edge by exploring alternative sources of energy and better ways to make use of them. At the same time, we must be careful stewards of precious natural resources—taking care to avoid strategies that damage our landscape, environment and pose health risks to our citizens.

Voting Record

Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act

The Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act would have hastened the sale of drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Virginia. It passed the House 266-149, but was never brought up for a vote in the Senate. Jim Jordan voted in favor of the Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act.

Jim Jordan voted in favor of the Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act.

Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011

The Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011 would have prevented the EPA from passing any tax on greenhouse gases and excluded GHGs from the definition of air pollutants. Jim Jordan voted in favor of the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011.

Jim Jordan voted in favor of the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011.

American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (Cap-and-Trade)

Also known as Cap and Trade, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 sought to create a system of carbon credits which would be issued to each business, and dictated the amount of carbon each business was allowed to put into the evironment through the creation of goods or the use of energy. When a company exceed the amount of carbon allocated to it (exceeded it\'s cap), it could then trade or purchase carbon credits from businesses below their allocated level. The bill passed the house in a 219-212 vote, but was never brought up for a vote in the Senate. Jim Jordan voted against the Cap and Trade Program.

Jim Jordan voted against the Cap and Trade Program.

Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008

In February of 2008, the US House passed the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008. Among other things, the bill created tax incentives for renewable energy. The bill was widely supported by Democrats and mostly opposed by Republicans. It never came '); echo('up for a vote in the US Senate, but passed the US House in a 236-182 vote. Jim Jordan voted against the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008.

Jim Jordan voted against the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008.

Renewable Energy and Job Creation Tax Act of 2008

In September of 2008, the House passed what was called the Renewable Energy and Job Creation Tax Act of 2008. Among other things, the Renewable Energy and Job Creation Tax Act of 2008 created tax credits for renewable electricity, and paid for those credits with PAYGO offsets. The bill had widespread Democratic support and Republican opposition, but passed with a vote of 257-166. Jim Jordan voted against the Renewable Energy and Job Creation Tax Act of 2008.

Jim Jordan voted against the Renewable Energy and Job Creation Tax Act of 2008.

Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008

In May of 2008, The US House passed the Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008. The Act created tax incentives for energy production and conservation. The bill was largely supported by the Democrats and largely opposed by the Republicans. The bill passed the House in a 263-160 vote. Jim Jordan voted against the Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008.

Jim Jordan voted against the Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008.

Renewable Fuels, Consumer Protection, and Energy Efficiency Act of 2007

Among other things, the Renewable Fuels, Consumer Protection, and Energy Efficiency Act of 2007 removed oil & gas exploration subsidies. The bill passed the House in January '); echo('and passed the Senate in June. In the House, the bill was supported by almost all Democrats and opposed by a majority of Republicans. It passed with a 264-163 vote Jim Jordan voted against the Renewable Fuels, Consumer Protection, and Energy Efficiency Act of 2007.

Jim Jordan voted against the Renewable Fuels, Consumer Protection, and Energy Efficiency Act of 2007.

No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act of 2007 or NOPEC

The No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act of 2007 or NOPEC. The bill Amends the Sherman Act to declare it to be illegal and a violation of the Act for any foreign state or instrumentality thereof to act collectively or in combination with any other foreign state or any other person, whether by cartel or any other association or form of cooperation or joint action, to limit the production or distribution of oil, natural gas, or any other petroleum product (petroleum), to set or maintain the price of petroleum, or to otherwise take any action in restraint of trade for petroleum, when such action has a direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect on the market, supply, price, or distribution of petroleum in the United States. The bill was not brought up in the US Senate, but passed the House in a 345-72 vote. Jim Jordan voted in favor of the NOPEC Act.

Jim Jordan voted in favor of the NOPEC Act.

Sponsored and Cosponsored Legislation

International Agreements on Climate Change - Cosponsor

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the conditions for the United States becoming a signatory to or negotiating any international agreement on greenhouse gas emissions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

No Cost Stimulus Act of 2009 - Cosponsor

To stimulate the economy and create jobs at no cost to the taxpayers, and without borrowing money from foreign governments for which our children and grandchildren will be responsible, and for other purposes.

National Environment and Energy Development Act - Cosponsor

To greatly enhance the Nation's environmental, energy, economic, and national security by terminating long-standing Federal prohibitions on the domestic production of abundant offshore supplies of natural gas, to dedicate fixed percentages of the resultant royalties for environmental restoration projects, renewable energy and carbon sequestration research, and weatherization and energy assistance for those in need, and to share a portion of such royalties with producing States, and for other purposes.

Free Industry Act - Cosponsor

Amends the Clean Air Act to: (1) exclude from the definition of the term "air pollutant" carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, or sulfur hexafluoride; and (2) declare that nothing in the Act shall be treated as authorizing or requiring the regulation of climate change or global warming.

http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Profiles/House/Ohio/Jim_Jordan/Views/Energy_and_the_Environment/

FY2008 budget

In June 2007, Rep. Jordan introduced an amendment aimed at reducing the spending in the Energy-Water appropriations bill. The measure would have cut $1.3 billion of the $31.6 billion bill (H.R. 2641), bringing appropriations back to the fiscal 2007 levels. Democrats, however, successfully voted down the amendment.

Main article: Congressional actions on the federal budget/110th Congress

Biography

Born in 1964 in Urbana, Ohio, Jordan attended Graham High School, where he was a four-time state wrestling champion. He then attended the University of Wisconsin, where he was a two-time NCAA champion. He earned a Master’s degree in Education from the Ohio State University and a Law Degree from Capital University. He and his wife Polly have four children.[1]

Jordan was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1994 and the Ohio State Senate in 2000. While serving in the state legislature, he was named Watchdog of the Treasury (1996, 2000, 2004), Outstanding Legislator Award (2004), Outstanding Freshman Legislator (1996), Friend of the Taxpayer (1997), and Pro-Life Legislator of the Year (1998) by the United Conservatives of Ohio, the "Defender of Life" award from the Ohio Right To Life Society, and the 2001 Leadership in Government Award from the Ohio Roundtable and Freedom Forum. He is also a state member of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. [2]

Congressional career

2006 election

Jordan defeated Democrat Rick Siferd 60%-40% to replace retiring Rep. Mike Oxley (R-Ohio) in the 2006 congressional elections.

Money in politics

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Fundraising profile: 2006 election cycle Career totals

Top contributors by organization/corporation: 2006 election cycle Career totals

Top contributors by industry: 2006 election cycle Career totals

Revolving door profile for Jim Jordan from the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org website.

2006 privately funded travel profile for Jim Jordan from the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org website.

Personal finance profile for Jim Jordan from the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org website.

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Committees and Affiliations

House Committee on the Judiciary

Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law

Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties

House Committee on Small Business

Subcommittee on Finance and Tax

Subcommittee on Regulations, Healthcare, and Trade

More Background Data

Contact

Washington D.C. Office:

515 Cannon House Office Building

Washington, DC 20515

Phone: (202) 225-2676

Fax:(202) 226-0577

Web Email

Website

Lima Office:

3121 W. Elm Plaza

Lima, Ohio 45805

Phone: (419) 999-6455

Fax:(419) 999-4238

Mansfield Office:

24 West Third Street

Room 314

Mansfield, OH 44902

Phone: (419) 522-5757

Fax:(419) 525-2805

Findlay Office:

100 East Main Cross

Suite 201

Findlay, Ohio 45840

Phone: (419) 423-3210

Fax:(419) 999-4238

Twitter

Jim Jordan posts on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/**

Latest posts:

Jim_Jordan: One more video clip, this one from On the Record last night. What grade would you give Secretary Chu on gas... http://t.co/2UABf9MK**

Jim_Jordan: I'll be on @gretawire at 10:25 tonight - tune in! #painatthepump

Jim_Jordan: Thanks for the great feedback on today's Oversight hearing. Tune in to Fox News tonight at 10:25pm EST, I'll be... http://t.co/LV0SGTns**

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Articles and Resources

Resources

Jim Jordan for Congress, official campaign site.

Local blogs and discussion sites

Psychobilly Democrat

As Ohio Goes

Writes Like She Talks'

Articles

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Committees: House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform/Subcommittee on Federal Workforce Post Office and the District of Columbia, House Committee on the Judiciary, House Committee on the Judiciary/Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, House Committee on the Judiciary/Subcommittee on the Constitution Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, House Committee on Small Business, House Committee on Small Business/Subcommittee on Regulations Healthcare and Trade, House Committee on Small Business/Subcommittee on Finance and Tax

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WASHINGTON -- After months of investigations into Solyndra and other Department of Energy loans failed to produce a smoking gun, one Republican lawmaker let slip why House Republicans have kept up the charge.

In an interview following yet another hearing in which Energy Secretary Steven Chu testified about the Department's loan guarantee program, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) conceded that Republicans' ongoing probes of the program -- from which the bankrupt California-based solar company Solyndra and others benefited -- are largely a play to win votes in November.

"Our staff will continue to dig into it and see," Jordan told Energy and Environment Daily. "But what I hope happens is we stop doing these kind of things ... this whole cronyism approach to the marketplace.

"Ultimately, we'll stop it on Election Day, hopefully. And bringing attention to these things helps the voters and citizens of the country make the kind of decision that I hope helps them as they evaluate who they are going to vote for in November."

Jordan's press secretary, Meghan Snyder, called HuffPost on Thursday to discuss the context for Jordan's statement.

"If you step back a little bit and look at the quote, he's discussing how these Oversight investigations are bringing to light things like, especially in this one, the cronyism of the market place," she said. "How he intended it and I believe maybe if you flip the coin you can kind of see, is he's explaining the purpose of Oversight Committee, which is bringing this to light for Americans. A lot of these people vote, and therein maybe lies the mix-up of how it was perceived by your story and maybe another one.

"We're just saying this is our purpose and voters see it," she added. "Maybe they'll put and end to it on Election Day. But to say that elections drive the Oversight Committee, we believe is incorrect. It's the purpose of the Oversight Committee to conduct these investigations."

The statements come after Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, charged Monday that the Republican-led House of Representatives' chief investigator, committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), had repeatedly launched "unsubstantiated" investigations into the Department of Energy.

In a letter to the powerful chairman, Cummings noted Issa had launched no fewer than 11 investigations into the department and its employees, many of which were "based on unsubstantiated allegations that proved inaccurate after further investigation."

"Although I fully support aggressive oversight to ensure that government programs work effectively and efficiently," Cummings wrote, "I believe the Committee should refrain from making accusations without evidence to support them and should correct the record when claims turn out to be inaccurate."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/22/jim-jordan-solyndra-investigation-elections_n_1372205.html?ir=Green&ref=topbar

Rep. Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican who recently appeared to admit that Republicans' ongoing probes of the Department of Energy's loan program are largely a play to win votes in November, is holding a hearing next week on that very program.

Jordan's subcommittee on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Wednesday will hold a hearing entitled, "The Obama Administration's Green Energy Gamble: What Have All the Taxpayer Subsidies Achieved?"

In March, following yet another hearing in which U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu testified about the department's loan guarantee program, Jordan appeared to signal that Republican's ongoing censure of the program -- from which the bankrupt California-based solar company Solyndra and others benefited -- was politically motivated.

"Our staff will continue to dig into it and see," Jordan told Environment & Energy Daily at the time. "But what I hope happens is we stop doing these kind of things ... this whole cronyism approach to the marketplace.

Jordan's press secretary, Meghan Snyder, has argued the quote was misinterpreted. "To say that elections drive the Oversight Committee, we believe is incorrect," she told The Huffington Post at the time.

The the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight, and Government Spending, chaired by Jordan, will hold its hearing on Wednesday morning in the Rayburn House Office Building.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/jim-jordan-solyndra-elections-doe-loan-program_n_1506603.html?ref=topbar

vs grist:

In an interview after as he left yet another hearing in which Energy Secretary Steven Chu testified about the controversial loan program for clean energy companies, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio said that — smoking gun or not — Republicans are finding value in drawing attention to the more controversial aspects of the loan guarantee program. ...http://grist.org/politics/house-republican-accidentally-tells-truth-about-solyndra-investigation/