众议员吉姆·乔丹众议院共和党议长提名。但是他还没有拿到木槌——他还必须赢得周二下午的投票。
提名并不自动意味着他锁定了领导职位。在周五的会议中进行的秘密投票中，55名众议院共和党人人表示，他们不会在议会中投票给约旦，这使他获得所需的217票的道路变得复杂。
保守派煽动者、前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)最喜欢的乔丹(Jordan)作为议长，将是副总统之后的第二位总统继承人。
吉姆·乔丹是谁?
59岁的乔丹素有煽动乌合之众的名声，他不怕攻击民主党人，挑战自己政党的领导地位。
他于2006年首次当选国会议员，他代表俄亥俄州第四国会选区，包括该州的中部。在进入国会之前，他于1994年被选入俄亥俄州众议院，八年后进入州参议院。
俄亥俄州共和党众议员吉姆·乔丹(Jim Jordan)于2023年10月13日在华盛顿朗沃斯大楼(Longworth Building)离开众议院共和党会议议长会议。
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2015年，乔丹是众议院自由核心小组(House Freedom Caucus)的创始主席，这是一个保守派团体，支持在政府支出、医疗保健、移民和其他问题上的强硬立场。
多年来，乔丹与特朗普建立了牢固的联系。在后者输掉2020年总统大选后，约旦毫无根据地对选举结果产生了怀疑，并在1月6日袭击后不久投票反对证明特朗普的失败。
同一天早些时候，特朗普在对支持者的一次讲话中提到了椭圆广场上的约旦，召集了许多后来参加国会大厦骚乱的人。
“软弱的共和党人太多了。我们有很棒的。吉姆·乔丹和其中一些人，他们在外面战斗，”特朗普说。
乔丹后来拒绝遵守众议院1月6日委员会的传票，这导致立法者将他和其他几位共和党国会议员提交给众议院道德委员会。
特朗普此前在2021年向约旦颁发了总统自由勋章-给他打电话“对各地热爱自由的美国人的鼓舞”，他“已成为他这一代国会中最重要的成员之一。”
现在，作为众议院司法委员会主席，乔丹是领导对乔·拜登总统弹劾调查的共和党人之一，尽管缺乏证据。拜登否认有不当行为。
在华盛顿之前，乔丹是一名成功的摔跤运动员:他在俄亥俄州格雷厄姆高中四次获得州摔跤冠军，在威斯康星大学学习期间两次获得NCAA摔跤冠军。
从1986年到1994年，他成为了俄亥俄州立大学的助理摔跤教练。2018年，他团队中的三名摔跤运动员指控他在担任助理教练期间未能解决一名队医涉嫌性虐待的问题。约旦一直否认这些指控声称他没有目睹任何虐待案件，也没有收到学生摔跤手的任何不当行为报告。这大学后来道歉了并与至少296人达成了超过6000万美元的和解。
在严酷的考验中，特朗普为乔丹辩护.
特朗普还给了乔丹一个全力支持上周，他在一篇社交媒体帖子中写道，他将“成为一名伟大的演讲者”。
投票记录
乔丹有投票支持保守派的历史，并不回避反驳其他不同意他的共和党人。
今年早些时候，他支持债务限额交易前议长凯文·麦卡锡与拜登进行了斡旋，而众议院自由党团的其他人则鼓励共和党人投反对票。
乔丹没有和他的共和党同僚一起努力本月早些时候把麦卡锡赶出了议长职位.
约旦有反对向乌克兰提供额外援助他说，“美国人心中最紧迫的问题不是乌克兰，而是边境局势和街头犯罪，这是众所周知的。"
尽管乔丹已经在国会呆了16年，但他的一些反对者认为他缺乏立法经验。
众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯说:“众议院共和党人刚刚选出了一位议长候选人，他在16年的国会任期内没有通过一项法案，因为他的重点不是美国人民，而是兜售谎言和阴谋论，并在美国人民中制造分裂。”在周五的新闻发布会上说.
乔丹一直是一名强硬派，他向共和党人施压，要求他们关门——就像2013年一样，当时他支持解除对患者保护与平价医疗法案的资助，也就是俗称的奥巴马医改;2015年，当谈到计划生育基金时;而在2018年，随着特朗普边境墙的资金。
期待什么
一旦议长宣誓就职，他们就立即掌权，一个写有新任议长名字的牌子挂在国会大厦议长办公室的门上。
如果本周当选，新任议长将有一个多月的时间来推动拨款立法，以防止下个月政府部分关闭，这将对数百万员工和社会服务接受者产生连锁反应。
约旦据说提出了一个权宜之计这将试图迫使参议院接受更大幅度的开支削减——这是麦卡锡执政时期保守派拒绝支持的方法。
另一个当务之急是在哈马斯领导的袭击蹂躏该地区并造成以色列1000多人死亡(包括美国人)后向以色列提供援助，这导致以色列宣布战争作为回应。乔丹告诉CNN他计划提出一项决议，以示对以色列的支持，但目前还不清楚该决议会是什么样的。
“我们如何帮助美国人民是让众议院开放，我们不能这样做，直到我们有一个发言人，”乔丹告诉美国广播公司新闻资深国会记者雷切尔斯科特。“所以，让我们(星期二)找一个演讲者，回去为美国人民工作，帮助我们亲爱的和最亲密的朋友，以色列国。”
Who is Jim Jordan? And what could be expected from him as speaker?
Rep. Jim Jordan has theHouse GOP's nomination for speaker. But he doesn't have the gavel just yet -- he still has to win a floor vote, set for Tuesday afternoon.
And a nomination doesn't automatically mean he has a lock on the leadership position. In a secret vote among their conference on Friday, 55 House Republicans said they would not cast ballots for Jordan on the floor -- complicating his path to the 217 votes he needs.
Jordan, a conservative firebrand and favorite of former President Donald Trump, would, as speaker, be second in the line of presidential succession after the vice president.
Who is Jim Jordan?
Jordan, 59, has a reputation as a rabble-rouser unafraid to attack Democrats and challenge his own party's leadership.
He was first elected to Congress in 2006, and he represents Ohio's 4th Congressional District, which includes the central part of the state. Before his time in Congress, he was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1994, and eight years later to the state Senate.
In 2015, Jordan was the founding chairman of the House Freedom Caucus -- a group of conservatives who support hard-line stances on government spending, health care, immigration and other issues.
Over the years, Jordan has forged a strong connection with Trump. After the latter lost the 2020 presidential election, Jordan baselessly cast doubt on the election results and voted against certifying Trump's defeat shortly after the Jan. 6 attacks.
Earlier that same day, Trump mentioned Jordan by name on the Ellipse during a speech to supporters, rallying many who would later go on to participate in the riot at the Capitol.
"There's so many weak Republicans. And we have great ones. Jim Jordan and some of these guys, they're out there fighting," Trump said.
Jordan later refused to comply with a House Jan. 6 Committee subpoena, which resulted in lawmakers referring him and a handful of other Republican members of Congress to the House Ethics Committee.
Trump previously presented Jordan with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2021 --calling him"an inspiration to freedom-loving Americans everywhere" who "has distinguished himself as one of the most consequential members of Congress of his generation."
Now, as the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jordan is one of the Republicans leading the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden despite the lack of evidence. Biden denies wrongdoing.
Before his time in Washington, Jordan succeeded as a wrestler: He was a four-time state champion in wrestling at Graham High School in Ohio and a two-time NCAA wrestling champion while he studied at University of Wisconsin.
He went on to become the assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University from 1986 to 1994. In 2018, three wrestlers on his team accused him of failing to address alleged sexual abuse by a team physician while he was assistant coach. Jordanconsistently denied the claims, claiming he had not witnessed any cases of abuse or received any reports of misconduct from the student wrestlers. Theuniversity later apologizedto the physician’s victims and reached more than $60 million in settlements with at least 296 people.
During the ordeal,Trump came to Jordan's defense.
Trump also gave Jordan afull-throated endorsementfor the top spot in the House, writing in a social media post last week that he would "be a GREAT speaker."
Voting record
Jordan has a history of voting with conservatives and has not shied away from pushing back on other Republicans who disagree with him.
Earlier this year, he backedthe debt-limit dealthat former Speaker Kevin McCarthy brokered with Biden, while others in the House Freedom Caucus encouraged Republicans to vote against it.
Jordan didn't join with his Republican colleagues in their effort topush McCarthy out of the speakership earlier this month.
Jordan hasopposed additional aid for Ukraine, saying that "the most pressing issue on Americans' minds is not Ukraine, it is the border situation and crime on the streets and everybody knows that."
Although Jordan has been in Congress for 16 years, some of his opponents think his legislative experience is lacking.
"House Republicans have just elected a speaker nominee who in 16 years in this Congress hasn't passed a single bill, because his focus has not been on the American people -- his focus has been on peddling lies and conspiracy theories and driving division amongst the American people," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferiessaid in a news conference Friday.
Jordan has been a hard-liner who has pressured Republicans toward shutdowns -- as was the case in 2013, when he supported defunding the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare; in 2015, when it came to Planned Parenthood funding; and in 2018, with funds for Trump's border wall.
What to expect
As soon as a speaker is sworn in, they are immediately in charge and a sign with the new speaker's name is hung above the door to the speaker's office at the Capitol.
The incoming speaker, if elected this week, will have a little more than a month to push through funding legislation to prevent a partial government shutdown next month, which would have rippling consequences for millions of employees and recipients of social services.
Jordanreportedly laid out a proposed stopgap measurethat would attempt to pressure the Senate to accept steeper spending cuts -- an approach that conservatives refused to back under McCarthy.
Another top priority is aid to Israel after Hamas-led attacks ravaged the region and left more than 1,000 dead in Israel -- including Americans -- leading Israel to declare a war in response.Jordan told CNNhe plans to bring forward a resolution to show support for Israel, but it’s not yet clear what that would look like.
"[How] we can help the American people is get the House open, and we can’t do that until we get a speaker," Jordan told ABC News Senior Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott. "So let's get a speaker [Tuesday] and get back to work for the American people and help our dear and closest friend, the State of Israel."
