Jim Jordan

Pursue trade policies that give American farmers fairer access to national and international markets.

• Current official-office issue material used as a limited supplement because the campaign site is record-driven and sparse.

Strengthen and preserve Ohio's agricultural economy.

• Preserve the broad agricultural objective.

Reduce federal spending to address long-term fiscal liabilities.

• Preserve the explicit spending-reduction direction.

Invest in advanced military technologies to preserve U.S. military superiority and deter hostile states.

• Preserve the investment mechanism and stated defense objectives.

Continue federal efforts against international terrorism to support long-term security and stability.

• Preserve the national-security objective without inventing operations.

Keep primary responsibility for education policy at the state and local levels rather than the federal government.

• Preserve the allocation-of-authority mechanism.

Support policies that give parents greater freedom to guide their children's education.

• Preserve the candidate's explicit parental-choice direction.

Increase domestic oil and gas supply by developing more U.S. energy resources.

• Preserve the development mechanism and energy-security objective.

Support exploration of alternative energy sources and more effective ways to use them.

• Preserve the research and development direction.

Move appropriate functions from federal agencies to individuals, private businesses, and nonprofit organizations.

• Preserve the institutional transfer mechanism without inventing agencies.

Use congressional oversight to reduce government spending and eliminate redundant federal-agency functions.

• Preserve the oversight and administrative-reform mechanisms.

Structure health-care reform so medical decisions remain with patients, families, and doctors rather than government or insurance bureaucracies.

• Preserve the candidate's decision-making framework.

Provide financial assistance to people who cannot afford health-insurance coverage.

• Preserve the explicit affordability mechanism without inventing eligibility rules.

Expand health-coverage options that include health savings accounts.

• Preserve the named account mechanism.

Allow individuals and families buying health coverage to receive the same purchasing advantages available to businesses.

• Preserve the parity mechanism without inventing tax details.

Strengthen physical and administrative security at the U.S. border.

• Preserve the candidate's explicit first immigration strategy element.

Robustly enforce federal immigration laws.

• Preserve the explicit enforcement direction.

Reform the immigration system to better serve people who enter lawfully, work, learn English, and pursue citizenship.

• Preserve the candidate's legal-immigration pathway and stated expectations.

Treat human life as beginning at conception and deserving legal protection.

• Preserve the candidate's stated moral and constitutional principle.

Preserve Social Security benefits for current retirees and people approaching retirement.

• Preserve the protected beneficiary groups.

Oppose short-term financial changes that could further undermine Social Security while pursuing fiscally responsible long-term solutions.

• Preserve the opposition and fiscal condition without inventing investments.

Keep taxes low so families retain more of what they earn.

• Preserve the candidate's stated tax principle.

Provide veterans strong earned benefits and high-quality medical care, especially when they return home wounded.

• Preserve the benefits and care commitments.

Authored the Cut, Cap and Balance plan to reduce spending and move the federal budget toward balance.

• Preserve the campaign-attributed completed legislative record.

Authored an alternative Ohio budget that balanced without raising taxes.

• Preserve the campaign-attributed completed state-legislative record.