Last Updated on October 20, 2023, 7:15 PM | Published: October 17, 2023
OKLAHOMA CITY — The two Oklahoma Representatives to Congress who represent the Oklahoma City metro voted for Ohio Republican Jim Jordan for Speaker of the House.
UPDATE, Friday, Oct. 20 — Both Congresswoman Stephanie Bice, representing the northern part of the OKC metro, and Congressman Frank Lucas who represents the southern part voted for fellow Republican Jim Jordan in all three rounds of voting for the next Speaker of the House of Representatives. Jordan is no longer in the running after having lost badly in a secret ballot just within the Republican conference after the third failed public vote.
All other members of the Oklahoma delegation, Tom Cole, Josh Brecheen, and Kevin Hern also voted for Jordan all three times.
Jordan still refuses to acknowledge that President Joe Biden won the last presidential election.
And, in his 16 years in Congress, Jordan has yet to get even one piece of legislation passed. He is best known as an obstructionist and is best known for his allegiance to former President Donald Trump.
He was cited by the January 6 Committee that investigated the Insurrection as being one of the insiders for plans to reject the 2020 presidential election results.
Bice was the only one who issued a statement of any sort before during or after the first vote announcing her decision to vote for Jordan.
Bice’s short message referred to Jordan as “a strong conservative voice” and said that he would be “laser-focused on advancing a pro-American agenda.”
January 6 Committee report on Jordan
The Executive Summary of the January 6 Committee full report detailed Jordan’s extraordinary and suspicious involvement with Trump and his inner circle in days leading up to, through, and days following January 6.
“Representative Jordan was a significant player in President Trump’s efforts. He participated in numerous post-election meetings in which
senior White House officials, Rudolph Giuliani, and others, discussed strategies for challenging the election, chief among them claims that the election had been tainted by fraud. On January 2, 2021, Representative Jordan led a conference call in which he, President Trump, and other Members of Congress discussed strategies for delaying the January 6th joint session.
During that call, the group also discussed issuing social media posts encouraging President Trump’s supporters to “march to the Capitol” on
the 6th.661 An hour and a half later, President Trump and Representative Jordan spoke by phone for 18 minutes.
The day before January 6th, Representative Jordan texted Mark Meadows, passing along advice that Vice President Pence should ‘call out all the electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all.’
He spoke with President Trump by phone at least twice on January 6th, though he has provided inconsistent public statements about how many times they spoke and what they discussed.
He also received five calls from Rudolph Giuliani that evening, and the two connected at least twice, at 7:33 p.m. and 7:49 p.m.
During that time, Giuliani has testified, he was attempting to reach Members of Congress after the joint session resumed to encourage them to continue objecting to Joe Biden’s electoral votes.
And, in the days following January 6th, Representative Jordan spoke with White House staff about the prospect of Presidential pardons for Members of Congress.”
Jordan refused a valid subpoena from the January 6 Select Committee and was referred to the Congressional Ethics Committee for violations.
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