it is my pleasure to welcome jim jordan. >> you heard that i went to the university of wisconsin. i went there and survive. i am just going to talk about some general principles. i tell every group that i speak to, look, you all pay my salary. and you are allowed to ask any question that you want. there'll be plenty of time for you to exercise your constitutional rights. this is a message that is as old of the hills. the five things i would challenge any person in a life as they go about doing these things. step one, set goals. you cannot get anywhere if you do not know where you are going. i am 47 years old and i have four kids, so you learn a few things with four kids. but a lot of folks that meander through life without ever knowing what they want to accomplish, what their objectives and goals are. if you want to accomplish anything of significance, you have to know what it is. the second challenge is more important. there are a lot of folks that set goals, but very few people are willing to do the work that which used something significant. the second challenge is, be a discip

some of your colleagues from the two-party patriots and elected officials like michele bachmann, jim jordan, and the south carolina senator jim demint. guest: they are holding the line for fiscal responsibility. they are saying that we cannot as -- continue to spend more than we make. that is the bottom line. many people are saying that. they're people across this country, when states are facing the same issues, and the same obstacles, so i do not have a problem with what they are doing. i think senator demint and michele bachmann and jim jordan are doing the right thing. they are holding the line and saying we have to rein in spending. host: from cleveland, ohio on the independent line. caller: i have a couple of quick questions. are they planning to put a cap on raising the payments to the congressman and senators? they should be it -- they should put a cap on that so they do not get raises. the last two years they got raises, cost of living, and the social security people were denied cost-of-living raises. maybe you can answer that if you are aware of it. second of all, all of these sena

congressman jim jordan was raised in champaigne county ohio. in high school, he was a four-time state wrestling champion, received a bachelor's degree in economics from the university of wisconsin where he was twice ncaa wrestling champion. he received his masters in education from ohio state and a law degree from chaplain university. he's one of the most conservative members of commerce believing family and taxpayers rather than government knows how to make decisions with their own money. he was legislated to the committee, organization of conservative members of u.s. house of representativings. he's taking a leading role on cut-cap-balance pass in the house of representatives. he opposed the recent debt increasement under his chairmanship, the committee offered its own budget proposal, offered a real plan to cut gasoline costs to more use of u.s. energy and offered amendments to cut spending from appropriations bills. it's my pleasure to welcome congressman jim jordan. [applause] >> i tell every group, don't clap. you have not heard me talk y

[applause] >> republican ohio congressman jim jordan speaking today at the young america's foundation national conservative student conference here in washington. congressman jordan is the republican study chair committee, committee chair. he was criticized last week for encouraging outside groups to pressure his fellow republicans to vote against speaker

after that, remarks by ohio congressman jim jordan at the young america's foundation student conference. >> 10, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. >> these are the stakes. to make a world in which all of god's children can live. are to go into the dark. we must either love each other or we must die. speedboat for president johnson on november 3. this weekend we will look at the history of political campaign ads with lsu professor robert mann. also former homicide detective james lavelle on the day jack ruby killed a man under his protection. lee harvey oswald and former speechwriters were present nixon reveal those messages were crafted and communicated. american history tv on c-span3. get the complete schedule at c-span.org/history. >> deputy deputy assistant treasury secretary for retirement, j. mark iwry says not enough americans are country leading to retirement accounts and many won't be able to maintain their lifestyle in retirement. for that reason, the obama administration is once again pushing congress to make enrollment automatic. he spoke at a conference ho

i hereby appoint the honorable jim jordan to act as speaker pro tempore on this day.igned, john boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend susan curlin hackett, holy cross lutheran church, lake stevens, washington. the chaplain: let us pray. good and gracious god, you hear the cry that rises up from the people of all nation, calling for leaders whose decisions are tempered by compassion and mercy. we pray on this day for the men and women of the house of representatives that they might exercise their power and authority with kindness, and with regard to the poor within our own conry -- country and beyond our borders. holy god, you know the limits of human wisdom, our frailties, and selfishness. we pray that the women and men of this place would seek justice and enjoy friendship that provides sound counsel and encouragement. grant to all who serve in this house rest when weary, competence in their task, and a deep appreciation of the trust that has been given to them by citizens

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jim sees his family. dell. the power to do more. >>> a key development to tell you about in the battle for tripoli now. special forces from britain, france, jordanpping up operations in the capital. a nato official says they're also assisting the rebels in other cities. barbara starr is at the pentagon with much more on an aspect of the civil war that we haven't heard much about, barbara. what is the latest on this? >> well, randi, we have a lot of new details. a nato official is confirming that special forces from four countries, britain, france, jordan have been on the ground. they have been moving north the rebel forces, assisting them very directly in that final move into tripoli providing commute -- helping them provide communications, training, in some cases weapons, if you will. and providing from the ground some very precise targeting to nato war planes overhead. so as you have seen the nato war planes bombard the compound in central tripoli, it is special forces on the ground, no u.s. troops, from these other countries that have been assisting in that. but, randi, i also want to bring everyone up to date on the weapons of mass destructi