Congressman Jim Jordan on the Debt Limit, Tax Reform, and the 2016 Election

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Jay talks to Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), co-founder of the House Freedom Caucus. Jay and Rep. Jordan discuss the debt ceiling, tax reform, the Obama administration's attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election, and more. As a lead-in to the interview, Mike and Jay talk about the history of the Freedom Caucus. After the interview they discuss Rep. Jordan's policy positions and recommendations. Rep. Jordan on Twitter | https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan We hope you’ll consider checking out the sponsors of today’s show: Dollar Shave Club. New members get DSC's starter set, featuring their Executive Razor, a full cassette of cartridges, shave butter, body wash, and 'One Wipe Charlies' butt wipes for only $5 by going to http://www.dollarshaveclub.com/tpg SeatGeek. Politics Guys listeners get $20 dollars off their first SeatGeek purchase. Just download the SeatGeek app or go to http://www.seatgeek.com and enter promo code POLITICSGUY. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. If you’re interested in supporting the show, go to http://www.politicsguys.com and click on the Patreon link.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
0:40.5	Hi, welcome to our Wednesday edition of the politics guys. It's Jay here. And we've got something sort of special on tap today. My interview with Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio. And this is special to me because I actually worked with Jim years ago when he was a freshman legislator in the Ohio House of Representatives.
0:46.9	And I was a staff member. And really, you know, some, he was, he was really an impressive figure
0:53.1	then and impressive now and whether
0:55.0	you agree with them now. And I didn't agree with him all the time then. And I don't necessarily
0:59.8	agree with all the time now. He is, he has always been a man of integrity and someone who I think
1:05.5	is worth looking next to. And we thought that it would be great to have him on our show.
1:11.6	But Mike, first, I mean, we're going to talk about how we've gotten here where we have
1:16.8	the Freedom Caucus in the house, which Mr. Jordan is a co-founder of.
1:24.9	And its impact and it's kind of placed historically. This is, this is sort of a
1:29.4	different moment that we've had. There have been sort of, I guess you'd call them, what would you,
1:36.0	would you call them like, not, not insurrections, but always sort of factions of a party.
1:41.6	Sure. Perhaps that might split off into their own party.
1:44.7	Well, I mean.
1:45.6	Historically, but rarely, go ahead.
1:47.8	I've said, yeah, and certainly this is a case of that because the Freedom Caucus being a
1:52.4	relatively new thing formed in, you know, just a few years ago in 2015, and they were an
1:57.5	offshoot of the Republican Study Committee, which right now, the Republican
2:01.8	Study Committee, they're sort of, the Republican Study Committee was founded in the early 70s,
2:06.0	and they basically were designed to be kind of a place where the more kind of socially conservative
2:12.7	Republicans in Congress could sort of have their own forum. And so that was kind of carved out. And then
2:19.6	the Freedom Caucus is sort of a rump group, if you will, of that. And I think right now there are like
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