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Jim Jordan

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Jim Jordan is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. Representative for Ohio's 4th congressional district since 2007. A member of the Republican Party, he is known for his strong conservative stance and is a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus, which advocates for limited government and fiscal responsibility. Throughout his tenure, Jordan has been involved in various legislative efforts and has gained prominence for his role in high-profile investigations and oversight hearings.

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Dec 9, 2015

And yet you are the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Screening Coordination... and you can't give us one single number to some, I think, pretty basic questions?

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Dec 9, 2015

How many American citizens are on that list right now? Can you give me that number?

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Dec 8, 2015

If you want to see a change, if you like a different public policy, if you want to see things done differently, our Framers have put forward a process, and that is you introduce a bill, you fight for it, and you try to get it passed into…

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Dec 8, 2015

The reversal that the OLC put forward was contrary to a plain reading of the statute, the intent of Congress in passing the law.

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Dec 8, 2015

We don't simply make up laws by one attorney at the Department of Justice down in the bowels there at the Department of Justice.

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Nov 30, 2015

You tell the American people one thing, you tell your family an entirely different story. You can live with the protest about a video. That won't hurt you. But a terrorist attack will.

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Nov 16, 2015

I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this issue, considering that the top counterterrorism investigator in the U.S. consistently states that the databases and law enforcement resources are not available to properly vet Syrians.

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Nov 16, 2015

If a private citizen gets an audit notice from the IRS and then 10 months later they destroy the evidence, are they going to be prosecuted?

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Nov 16, 2015

What was it going to take before you would take this to a grand jury?

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Nov 16, 2015

Mr. Koskinen testified twice in front of Congress and did not disclose the fact that they knew her hard drive had crashed.

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Nov 16, 2015

Transferring these combatants to the United States will only increase their odds of being released inside the U.S.

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Nov 16, 2015

Americans have become more and more suspicious that their government agencies are biased.

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Nov 16, 2015

It is not difficult to understand why a special counsel was needed, given that only those organizations opposed to the President's overreaching agenda were targeting by high-ranking IRS officials.

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Nov 16, 2015

I am profoundly disturbed the Administration's handling of this matter.

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Nov 16, 2015

So are you saying Mr. Koskinen had substantial evidence of mismanagement when he didn't inform Congress?

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Nov 16, 2015

If it wasn't deliberate intent to destroy and conceal, what was it?

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Nov 16, 2015

Here's what you said in your letter: 'The Justice Department's investigation uncovered substantial evidence of mismanagement and poor judgment.'

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Oct 21, 2015

I think the American people would like to know what terms you used to determine what we might get...

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Oct 21, 2015

we need the complete record. Your emails are part of the record, and we believe the record might be incomplete

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Oct 21, 2015

Let's look at a few things that you said here in the last few months.

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Oct 21, 2015

Those 55,000 pages, there were 62,000 emails, total emails on your system.

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Oct 21, 2015

I think there was. And that's what I think most of the American people thought.

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Oct 21, 2015

If that's not pointing as a motive being a video, I don't know what is.

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Oct 21, 2015

You can live with the protest about a video, that won't hurt you. But a terrorist attack will, so you can't be square with the American people?

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