Rep. Jim Jordan
Representative for Ohio’s 4th District
pronounced jim // JOR-din
![Photo of Rep. Jim Jordan [R-OH4]](https://www.govtrack.us/static/legislator-photos/412226-200px.jpeg)
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his advisors and associates, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided by themselves rather than by voters through their attempts to suppress state-certified election results at both the state and national level.
Jordan was among the Republican legislators who participated in this. 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. In the case, Republicans proffered lies and a novel legal theory 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.
In 2023, Trump associates and top advisors pleaded guilty to submitting a fraudulent slate of electors to Congress from Georgia, making false statements about purported widespread fraud in the election, and tampering with voting machines after the election, admitted in civil court to posing as fake electors in Wisconsin, and were convicted of contempt of Congress for withholding documents during its investigation and assaulting police officers at the Capitol. Trump associates and top advisors are also facing charges for submitting fraudulent slates of electors to Congress (in Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, and Wisconsin) and Trump himself faces related criminal charges in state court. (He was also convicted in 2024 of falsifying business records to cover up acts that he believed might have hurt him in the 2016 election.) The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups one member of which was convicted of sedition, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors.
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 legislators have sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Nov 26, 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:
- H.Res. 1292: Recommending that the House of Representatives find United States Attorney General Merrick B. …
- H.R. 4791: Free Speech Protection Act
- H.Res. 159: Providing amounts for the expenses of the Committee on the Judiciary in the …
- H.Res. 12: Establishing a Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government as a …
- H.R. 3827 (117th): Protect Speech Act
- H.R. 8517 (116th): Protect Speech Act
- H.Res. 1138 (116th): Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the number of …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2007 to Nov 2024, Jordan missed 246 of 12,030 roll call votes, which is 2.0%. This is on par with the median of 2.2% 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.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
