Jim Jordan, Representative for Ohio's 4th Congressional District - GovTrack.us

 
Rep. Jim Jordan

Representative for Ohio’s 4th District

pronounced jim // JOR-din

Jordan is the representative for Ohio’s 4th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 4, 2007. Jordan is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 60 years old.

Photo of Rep. Jim Jordan [R-OH4]
Elections must be decided by counting votes

Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his senior government advisors, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided by themselves rather than by voters. Their attempts to suppress state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and by using lies and fraudulent documents was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.


Jordan was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. Shortly after the election, Jordan joined a case before the Supreme Court calling for all the votes for president in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — states that were narrowly won by Democrats — to be discarded, in order to change the outcome of the election, based on lies and a preposterous legal argument which the Supreme Court rejected. (Following the rejection of several related cases before the Supreme Court, another legislator who joined the case called for violence.) Jordan futher urged the Vice President to and participated in a coordinated campaign by the Trump Administration to exclude some Democratic states from the electoral count rather than follow the procedure set in law in which Congress may vote to exclude electors. On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Jordan voted to omit Arizona and/or Pennsylvania from the counting of presidential electors, which could have altered the outcome of the election in Trump’s favor. In 2022, Jordan defied a subpoena to testify in the investigation of the January 6th Committee.
The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors. In 2023, Trump advisors and associates pleaded guilty to or were convicted of submitting fraudulent slates of electors to Congress (which Trump was briefed on), abetting lies, tampering with voting machines after the election, and assaulting police officers at the Capitol, and Trump faces criminal charges for soliciting the Vice President to subvert Congress’s certification of the election, his role in the fraudulent slates of electors, and the insurrection at the Capitol.

Earmarks

Jordan did not request any earmarks for fiscal year 2024.

Most representatives from both parties requested earmarks for fiscal year 2024. Rather than being distributed through a formula or competitive process administered by the executive branch, earmarks may direct spending where it is most needed for the legislator's district. More about FY2024 earmark requests from Demand Progress Education Fund »

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Jordan is shown as a purple triangle in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Jordan has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Mar 22, 2024. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Jim Jordan sits on the following committees:

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Jordan sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Science, Technology, Communications (100%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Jordan recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Jordan voted Nay

Jordan voted Nay

Passed 398/5 on Jan 23, 2017.

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Jordan voted Nay

Passed 382/5 on Nov 14, 2016.

Jordan voted Nay

Passed 338/88 on May 13, 2015.

The USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048, Pub.L. 114–23) is a U.S. law enacted on June 2, 2015 that restored in modified form several provisions of …

Jordan voted Nay

Passed 219/206 on Dec 11, 2014.

This bill became the vehicle for passage of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 [pdf], which was approved by the House on December …

Jordan voted No

Jordan voted No

Jordan voted Aye

Passed 304/117 on Jun 23, 2011.

The Leahy–Smith America Invents Act (AIA) is a United States federal statute that was passed by Congress and was signed into law by President Barack …

Jordan voted Nay

Missed Votes

From Jan 2007 to Mar 2024, Jordan missed 232 of 11,656 roll call votes, which is 2.0%. This is on par with the median of 1.9% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Primary Sources

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