Open Congress : News Articles for Rep. Jim Jordan [R, OH-4]

Oversight: Lerner must attend hearing, even if she does not testify

2013-05-21T01:00:00Z

...of outrageous IRS targeting of Americans for their political beliefs,” he added. A representative for Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan declined to comment beyond the committee’s statement, but during testimony by Holder last week, Jordan, an Oversigh

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Activists Saw Vindication as IRS Controversy Erupted

2013-05-21T01:00:00Z

...he would defend any group facing these questions without charge.Even before Mr. Zawistowski told the media, he alerted Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio), an outspoken conservative on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.At the end of February

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Bernanke meets privately with Issa

2013-05-21T01:00:00Z

...strategy in the future, according to people who attended the meeting. The meeting followed a letter that Issa (R-Calif.) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent Bernanke in April expressing dismay that the Fed was not providing lawmakers with more information

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IRS's Lois Lerner to take the Fifth

2013-05-21T01:00:00Z

...the IRS’s gross abuse of power.” Issa has accused Lerner of lying to Congress on four separate occasions last year. He and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote a letter to Lerner last week asking her to brief the Oversight Committee on the disparities in

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IRS dispute: Q & A

2013-05-21T01:00:00Z

...IRS behavior begin? A: Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, requested a formal audit by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration on June 28, 2012. It

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Rep. Jordan Pledges to Get to Bottom of IRS ‘Abuse of Taxpayers’ First Amendment Rights’

2013-05-21T01:00:00Z

...Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) pledged that the Congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will get to the bottom of the “IRS’ abuse of taxpayers’ First Amendment rights,” which he said members of the Obama administration have been aware of

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Jordan talks to biz owners about Obamacare

2013-05-20T01:00:00Z

...— U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, spoke with small business owners representing roughly 650 Lima-area employees about health care reform and other pressing business issues today. Jordan assured the group he would continue fight against the legislation

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Republicans Informed of IRS Investigation Last Year

2013-05-19T01:00:00Z

...reports on the matter when they are issued,” George wrote in the letter to Issa. An identical letter was also sent the Rep. Jim Jordan, who, like Issa had raised the issue with the IRS. The letter notes that it was Issa who had written him about “qu

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Darrell Issa: Getting to the bottom of IRS patriot games

2013-05-18T01:00:00Z

...of this would have been discovered if my friend and colleague on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, had not pressed the issue. Last June, after hearing complaints from conservative groups who were facing extra

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IRS scandal: What we still haven't learned

2013-05-17T01:00:00Z

...the targeting program — not when top IRS officials first learned about it in June 2011. Issa (R-Calif.) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote in a letter to the agency on Tuesday that IRS officials told lawmakers that no employees faced disciplinary acti

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Republicans Want to Slow Down the Scandals

2013-05-17T01:00:00Z

...like we’re trying to hurry or trying to slow it down. We're just trying to proceed at the speed that gets to the truth," Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan said. "Top GOP leaders are privately warning members to put a sock in it when it comes to silly calls for imp

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IRS official said Ohio Tea Party groups had 'nothing to be suspicious of'

2013-05-17T01:00:00Z

...Weese is web coordinator for Business First. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, says Lois Lerner, IRS director of exempt organizations, responded to inquiries last year, claiming there was "nothing to be suspicious of" in the IRS' review of certain groups. At t

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Perez confirmation saga continues with upcoming committee vote

2013-05-16T01:00:00Z

...future whistleblowers who bring claims of waste, fraud and abuse, only to be thrown under the bus for political purposes,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said last week during a House hearing on the matter. Critics have further suggested that Perez made the

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IRS acting commissioner fired, Obama pledges cooperation into investigation

2013-05-16T01:00:00Z

...the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which plans a hearing for next Wednesday, and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sent a nine-page letter accusing Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS’ division on tax-exempt organizations, of

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IRS acting commissioner fired, Obama pledges cooperation into investigation

2013-05-16T01:00:00Z

Holder Holds Up in House Judiciary Hearing, but More Attacks Coming

2013-05-16T01:00:00Z

...yourself as a member of Congress. It’s unacceptable, and it’s shameful.” Holder took strong exception to an assertion by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, that Lerner lied in her communications with Congress. He also took umbrage when Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas

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Why House Republicans and Eric Holder hate each other

2013-05-16T01:00:00Z

...with House Republicans is particularly bad. He’s the first AG held in contempt by the entire House, something Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohi) brought up as a sign that Holder didn’t “have all that much credibility.” Maybe it’s because Holder makes no

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Ohio Tea Party groups long ago sounded alarm on IRS

2013-05-16T01:00:00Z

...that led to the IRS's recent admission that it targeted Tea Party-related groups for close scrutiny. Ohio Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, who chairs a Tea Party-leaning conservative caucus in the House, sent a letter on March 27, 2012, to the IRS, seek

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5 takeaways from IRS report

2013-05-15T01:00:00Z

...oversight of the IRS’s treatment of conservative groups applying for tax exempt status,” Issa and committee member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote. But you won’t read about that in the IG report. The controversial answers from Miller on why top age

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Report: 'Inappropriate criteria' stalled IRS approvals of conservative groups

2013-05-15T01:00:00Z

...“We still do not know why the targeting began, how extensive it was, who initiated it and who knew about it,” said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a member of the oversight committee. “The IRS must be held accountable to the American people, which requi

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