Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Urbana) will attend a veterans’ court on Thursday, September 4, in Marion, Ohio. Veterans’ court is designed to assist veterans whose legal problems can be definitely traced to military service. Following the veterans’ court visit, Rep. Jordan will attend the Marion County Popcorn Festival. Later on Thursday he will speak at a town hall meeting in Tiffin. The meeting will be hosted by the North Central Ohio Conservatives. September 4, 8:45-11 a.m. – visit veterans’ cour...
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L. Gordon Crovitz writes that "accountability has been scarce" in the realm of intelligence gathering for counterterrorism ("Judges for National Security," Information Age, Aug. 11). This is ironic, because additional accountability is precisely the point of legislative efforts to reform electronic surveillance. It does no disservice to hardworking members of the intelligence community to remember that checks and balances between and within the branches of government—including congressional over...
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Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Urbana) will participate in events throughout Ohio’s fourth congressional district this week. He will speak at the Veterans Resource Fair in Lima and a pro-life event in Delphos, attend a reverse job fair in Piqua and participate in an online Google Hangout with Generation Opportunity. August 26, 10 a.m. – speech at Veterans Resource Fair, 7 Town Square, Lima, OH August 26, 1:30 p.m. – attending Ohio Department of Job and Family Services’ Reverse Job Fair, 308 North Mai...
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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Urbana) will join Generation Opportunity’s president Evan Feinberg for a Google Hangout on Thursday, August 28, at 7 p.m. Feinberg and Jordan will discuss the U.S. economy, national debt and civil liberties before taking questions from watch parties in Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati. Questions can also be submitted via Twitter at #GenOppChat. Generation Opportunity is a national, non-partisan organization advocating for economic opportunity for young people through less gover...
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Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Urbana) released the following statement today after two congressional hearings addressing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targeting of conservative tax-exempt applicants: “We need to use all avenues to address the targeting issue. The Justice Department investigation is a joke investigation. The FBI told the Wall Street Journal in January that no one would be prosecuted over the IRS targeting of conservative groups, and President Obama said that there was not even ‘...
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On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 at 9:30 a.m. in room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building, and at 10 a.m. in room 2141 of Rayburn, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Urbana) will attend hearings held by the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. The Oversight hearing, entitled “IRS Abuses: Ensuring That Targeting Never Happens Again,” and the Judiciary hearing, entitled “The IRS Targeting Scandal: The Need For A Special Counsel,” will address ongo...
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In their wisdom, the founders sought to protect certain fundamental freedoms in the First Amendment to the Constitution. One of the most important is the freedom to speak out against the policies of your government. That is why the IRS scandal should outrage Americans across the political spectrum. It is chilling to think that any American could be singled out and targeted by their government simply for opposing the policies of the president. Some in Washington say this is politics as usual and ...
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On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. in room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Urbana) will chair a hearing held by the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs. The hearing, entitled “Examining Allegations of Corruption at the Export-Import Bank,” will examine recent allegations of corruption at the Bank and will evaluate the Bank’s ethics programs and operational transparenc...
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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Urbana) released the following statement after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s ruling today upholding a challenge to Obamacare health insurance subsidies being granted through the federal exchange: “From the Defense of Marriage Act, to immigration, to the implementation of his signature healthcare law, President Obama has demonstrated time after time his desire to unilaterally change the laws passed by Congress. Today’s court ruling points out yet another exam...
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On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. in room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Urbana) will chair a hearing held by the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation and Regulatory Affairs. The hearing, entitled “An Update on the IRS Response to Its Targeting Scandal,” will examine the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) response to congressional oversight and other investigations since Lois Lerner’s publ...
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