Jordan welcomes Hardin County back to his district
Congressman Jim Jordan is welcoming Hardin County back to his 4th Congressional District.
The Republican lawmaker from Urbana visited Kenton on Tuesday, which included stops at Pleasant Precision and the Kenton Times.
Hardin County was in Jordan’s district for the first six years of his tenure in Congress (2007-2012), before redistricting shifted the county to Rep. Bob Latta’s 5th District. Following the 2020 census and another round of redistricting, Hardin County is back in the 4th District.
“We’re looking forward to the chance to represent Hardin County again,” Jordan said. He said the 4th, which is home to Honda in Marysville, is one of the top manufacturing House districts in the nation, to go along with its strong agricultural base.
“We make things and we grow things,” he said. It was a quick visit for Jordan because he had to return to Washington, D.C., to vote on $1.7 trillion federal spending package, which is still making its way through the Senate.
He blamed Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell for agreeing to the spending plan.
“It makes no sense to me,” said Jordan, noting Congress could pass a continuing budget resolution to fund government operations and resume negotiations in the new year with Republicans in charge of the House.
“We have the cavalry coming over the hill,” Jordan said. “Why not wait and get a
betting spending package?”
Jordan hopes Kevin McCarthy will be elected House speaker. McCarthy is still working to reach the required 218 votes to became speaker.
During the past two years of Democratic control, he said McCarthy “has done a great job keeping the team together.”
Jordan is in line to become chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and he said one of its first actions will be to investigate the U.S. Justice Department.
He said he has heard from whistleblowers about how politicized the department has become when there is supposed to be equal treatment under the law.
Jordan said his committee also is responsible for border security and he looks to pass legislation to deal with that issue.
“You’re not truly a nation if you don’t have a border,” Jordan said.
He also supports the expected effort of McCarthy to get rid of 87,000 IRS agents added in the past year, but admits without control of the Senate and the presidency, Republicans will have a tough time getting their ideas enacted.
Jordan said by “passing good things out of the House” it will help Republicans to frame the 2024 presidential race. He said voters will see what Republicans are trying to do.
When the subject turned to the Jan. 6 committee investigating the insurrection at the U.S. Capital and its call to prosecute Donald Trump on four different crimes, Jordan said, “It was totally political.”
Jordan was among four GOP lawmakers who refused to comply with a congressional subpoena to testify before the committee. The panel said all four should face an ethics investigation.
Jordan claimed the committee was “caught in a number of lies and outright falsehoods” and its report is not being accepted by the nation.
The committee, he said, allowed no cross-examination of witnesses because it refused the appointments by the minority leader. Jordan was one of those whose appointment was rejected by Democrats.
Regarding Jan. 6, 2021, Jordan said “It was a bad day. It was a rally that turned into a riot and people are being held accountable.”
Jordan said he is pleased to see Trump is running for president in 2024 and “I hope
he is” elected. “We’ve never had a president get more done with about everyone in town against him.”
He said Trump lowered taxes, secured the border, started building a border wall, and made appointments to create a more conservative Supreme Court.
“He did what he said he would,” Jordan said of Trump. “That’s how you’re supposed to govern.”