Sure he’s been IN Congress for 16 years….
But it turns out he doesn’t have ONE bill with his own name on it…..
The Ohio Republican isn’t a consensus builder….
Something some Trump Era House GOPer’s don’t care about….
But being the House Speaker
Means getting a job that requires dancing with different people even in ur own party let alone Democrats..
Jim Jordan is just been a guy going after people…..
“House Republicans have just elected a speaker nominee who in 16 years in this Congress hasn’t passed a single bill,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Friday, “because his focus has not been on the American people.”….
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Ousted former speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) during Jordan’s tenure has sponsored 17 bills that passed and eight that became law. Five of those laws were regarded as “substantive.”
And House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) during Jordan’s tenure has sponsored eight “substantive” bills that passed, including one that became law.
Jordan’s office on Monday cited 64 bills that he co-sponsored — i.e. supporting other people’s bills — that became law, as well as Jordan having “negotiated legislation directly with the White House and returned millions to the U.S. Treasury from his office budget.”….
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Indeed, another feature of Jordan’s time in Congress is how little interest he’s shown in bipartisanship. His office has responded to his low effectiveness rankings by pointing to how Politico in 2016 labeled Jordan “arguably the second-most influential Republican in the House.” But that was because of how he “routinely thwarted his own Republican leadership’s priorities in a drive to push his party’s agenda rightward.”
Another popular measuring stick on that front is the Bipartisan Index ratings put out by the Lugar Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. The ratings track how often a member co-sponsors a bill introduced by the other party, as well as how often a member’s own bills earn co-sponsors from the across the aisle.
Here, too, Jordan ranks near the bottom. Its 2021 ratings peg him 428th out of 435 members in the first session of the last Congress. Those below him included fellow Freedom Caucus members, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.). He also ranked third-to-last in the previous Congress, from 2019 through early 2021….
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Instead of focusing on passing legislation, Jordan has been a fixture in Republican-led investigations dating back to last decade. His office pointed Monday to his having “been part of — or leading — every major congressional investigation since he has entered office.”
