RepublicanJim Jordan
U.S. Representative · Ohio
Ohio's 4th district
U.S. Representative from Ohio
2 tracked promises, 2 rated
How they won their seat
Jim Jordan won the 2024 U.S. House election in Ohio (District 4) with 68.5% of the vote (273,297 votes).
- Jim Jordan · Republican68.5%273,297
- Tamie Wilson · Democrat31.5%125,905
Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.
Inferred legislative agendas
Jim Jordan's record indicates involvement in legislative oversight and judicial matters. He has sponsored multiple resolutions and bills aimed at investigating federal actions, such as HRES 1292, which calls for holding the Attorney General in contempt, and has introduced several welfare reform initiatives, including the Welfare Reform and Upward Mobility Act. Additionally, his role as Chair of the House Committee on the Judiciary reflects his participation in legislative oversight and judicial matters. Focus areas (from the record): Judicial Oversight · Free Speech · Welfare Reform · Second Amendment · Government Accountability Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against his legislative activities. Therefore, it is not possible to assess alignment with any stated goals. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal any declared positions or promises to assess alignment; It does not indicate the effectiveness of the sponsored bills or their impact; The record does not provide insight into the motivations behind his legislative actions. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Jim Jordan has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.
Showing 2012. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.
Activity in office
What Jim Jordan has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score.
- Bills sponsored
- 2
Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.
Bills sponsored over time
Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$63K9%
- Large individual (itemized)$307K42%
- PAC / committee$355K49%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Chair, House Committee on the JudiciaryOn record since Jan 2025Chair
- Member, House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Integrity
Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown+100 · based on 2 rated promises
- Fully Kept 2
Teal segments are promises kept; amber and stone segments are promises worked against. The signed score weights each rated promise by significance and evidence confidence. Promise-keeping is shown separately from popularity, finance, disclosure, and stated positions. Methodology is open.
Integrity over time
In office since Jan 2019 · 2 rated promisesEach step is a real change in the sourced record — the score holds between assessments.
Promise status over time
How the tracked promise record has evolved.
- Kept2
- Against0
- No opportunity0
- In progress0
Replayed from this official’s sourced assessment history — the bands step only when an assessment is recorded or changed. Based on the most recent roll-call votes on file and the tracked promise assessments; never interpolated.
Topic coverage
2 promises across 2 topicsWhat this record covers — the number of tracked promises per topic. This is coverage, not a verdict; the kept/against shading within each bar mirrors the Integrity breakdown above.
- energy/climate1 promise
- government oversight1 promise
Evidence & significance
Evidence quality
Strongest source cited per promise.
- Primary (official record)2100%
Significance mix
How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).
Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.
2 tracked promises
“As House Judiciary Committee chairman, Jordan committed to investigating the alleged 'weaponization' of the federal government, establishing and chairing the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government to probe the FBI, DOJ, and other federal agencies.”
“In July 2008, Jordan committed to opposing climate-change legislation that raises taxes by becoming the first member of Congress to sign Americans for Prosperity's 'No Climate Tax' pledge.”
Verified record
38 sponsored bills · finance on fileFacts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.
FEC 2026 cycle — raised $3,692,364, spent $5,203,298, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HRES 86: Providing amounts for the expenses of the Committee on the Judiciary in the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress. ↗Jan 31, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 1292: Recommending that the House of Representatives find United States Attorney General Merrick B. Garland in contempt of Congress for refusal to comply with a subpoena duly issued by the Committee on the Judiciary. ↗Jun 12, 2024
- Sponsored HR 4791: Free Speech Protection Act ↗Jul 20, 2023
- Sponsored HRES 159: Providing amounts for the expenses of the Committee on the Judiciary in the One Hundred Eighteenth Congress. ↗Feb 24, 2023
- Sponsored HRES 12: Establishing a Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government as a select investigative subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary. ↗Jan 9, 2023
- Sponsored HR 3827: Protect Speech Act ↗Jun 11, 2021
- Sponsored HR 8517: Protect Speech Act ↗Oct 2, 2020
- Sponsored HRES 1138: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the number of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States should remain at nine. ↗Sep 22, 2020
- Sponsored HR 2832: Welfare Reform and Upward Mobility Act ↗Jun 8, 2017
- Sponsored HR 1436: To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2017. ↗Mar 8, 2017
- Sponsored HR 5360: Welfare Reform and Upward Mobility Act ↗May 26, 2016
- Sponsored HR 1701: Second Amendment Enforcement Act of 2015 ↗Mar 26, 2015
Showing the 12 most recent of 38 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 466
- Nay
- 128
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 15
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Nay
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Yea
- HR1181Yea
- HR1181Nay
- HR139Yea
- HRES1423Yea
- HRES1423Yea
- HR8897Yea
- HR3106Yea
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Nay
- HRES1398Yea
- HRES1398Yea
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Stated positions
2 positions on recordWhat this official says they believe — sourced claims, shown distinctly from tracked promises and from any assessment of what they did. A stated position is never scored and never affects the Integrity Score.
- energy/climateStated position
In July 2008, Jordan committed to opposing climate-change legislation that raises taxes by becoming the first member of Congress to sign Americans for Prosperity's 'No Climate Tax' pledge.
Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jordanhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Jim_JordanView position & sources → - government oversightStated position
As House Judiciary Committee chairman, Jordan committed to investigating the alleged 'weaponization' of the federal government, establishing and chairing the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government to probe the FBI, DOJ, and other federal agencies.
Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaponization_of_the_federal_governmenthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Jim_JordanView position & sources →
Disclosure
A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.
No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.
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