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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.

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Fully KeptFact-checker reviewConfidence: 98%

Independently verified. The promise had three concrete deliverables: (1) establish a Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, (2) chair it, and (3) use it to investigate the FBI, DOJ, and other federal agencies. All three occurred. H.Res.12 (118th Congress), adopted January 10, 2023, by its own text 'hereby established for the One Hundred Eighteenth Congress a select investigative subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary called the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government' - confirmed live at govinfo.gov (fetched directly). Jim Jordan chaired the subcommittee while simultaneously chairing the full Judiciary Committee, serving as Chair from January 10, 2023 until the subcommittee dissolved on January 3, 2025 (confirmed via Wikipedia, fetched directly). The subcommittee held hearings and issued subpoenas targeting federal agencies over its two-year run. This is not a merely-led-but-unfulfilled effort (which would be CHAMPIONED); the promised body was actually created, chaired by the promise-maker, and operated as promised - an essentially 100% kept promise. Applying the same nonpartisan standard: a politician of any party who promised to stand up and chair an investigative subcommittee and then did exactly that for a full Congress would also earn FULL. Both cited sources are real, live, and accurately quoted; the third source is a duplicate (introduced vs engrossed version of the same resolution).

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