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Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, fields questions from members of the Marion County Tea Party during his visit to Marion on Wednesday morning. Healthcare legislation was the main topic of discussion.(Photo: Matthew Hatcher/The Marion Star)Buy Photo

MARION - Marion County Tea Party members had questions about a cornerstoneelection year promise during a meeting with Rep. Jim Jordan on Wednesday.

Local conservatives expressed concerns about the failure thus far of the Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Repeal and replacement was one of the hallmark promises made by President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign.

Jordan, R-Urbana, and fellow members of the House Freedom Caucus opposed abill backed by Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, because he said it failed to deliver on the Republican promise to fully repeal the ACA.

"When this bill was rolled out, even people who were for it called it 'Obamacare light,'" Jordan said. "It didn't bring down premiums. It certainly didn't unite Republicans as evidenced by the fact that you had conservatives and moderates in both the House and the Senate who had problems with the legislation. And it wasn't a bill that united the country since only 17 percent of our fellow citizens thought this thing should pass."

Jordan told the group hesupports a "clean repeal" of the ACA, citing legislation that Republicans passed last year.

"We passed a clean repeal 15 months ago, which said mandates are gone, all the taxes are gone, most of the regulations were gone, and the Medicaid expansion was phased out over the next two years," he said. "Only one Republican in the House didn't vote for it. The Senate voted for it. We put it on President Obama's desk, he vetoed it. We conservatives were for putting that bill on President Trump's desk on day one."

While Jordansupported the recent White House decision to bomb Syria's Shayrat airbase following a chemicalattack by President Bashar al-Assad's government forces against the rebel-controlled town ofKhan Sheikhoun, he said Congress must be involved in further action.

"I think it's clear in the Constitution that anything more, any troops, you're going to have a debate in Congress," he said. "That's the way the founders wanted this process to work."

Members of the Marion County Tea Party listen as Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, speaks during a meeting Wednesday at the county administration building in downtown Marion.(Photo: Matthew Hatcher/The Marion Star)

Republican lawmakers on Wednesday asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to consideran independent inquiry into reports that members of the Obama Administration"unmasked" members of the Trump campaign team who were part ofU.S. surveillance operations of foreign targetsduring the 2016 election. Jordan said he'll be interested to see what an investigation yields.

"There's a finite number of people who have the ability to unmask names and leak information," Jordan said. "Some of those people who had the ability to do that were the same people who weren't straightforward with Americans during the Benghazi situation, like (former National Security Adviser) Susan Rice. She was one of the ones who unmasked the names. What we want to know is if she did this throughout her tenure with the Obama Administration or did it suddenly start happening once trump won the White House and the transition period was happening."

Jordan told the group he was pleased with the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the United States Supreme Court.

"If you watched any of the confirmation hearings, he just knocked it out of the park and handled everything that the liberals threw at him," Jordan said. "Frankly, I don't always agree with Sen. (Mitch) McConnell (R-Kentucky) on some decisions, but his decision last year to hang tough and wait until the people decide who the next president is going to be before we move on the Supreme Court turned out to be key. He deserves a lot of credit."

Andrew Carter is the Life In Marionreporter forThe Marion Star. Contact him at eacarter@gannett.com or 740-375-5154. Follow him on Twitter @AndrewCarterMS or Facebook @LifeInMarionOhio.

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Take a break from politics with a tea party The Madera Tribune (You may have fond memories of pretending to sip invisible tea.) One of my favorite possessions is a bone china teapot from England, but it rarely gets used these days. I think many of us should treat ourselves to a relaxing tea party, even if we just ...

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Southern Tier TEA Party Patriots met March 28 at the Lakewood American legion. Reports were given on the potential BPU annexation and other local issues.

Along with 300 others, Roy Harvey and Karen Engstrom-Harvey attended a conference on climate by the Heartland Institute in Washington, D.C. Those who deny climate warming are called scientific deplorables. Under a politicized Obama, the EPA shut down much industrial production with Loretta Lynch calling for an investigation of climate deniers. Trump reduced the EPA by 30 percent and put coal back in business. Windmills, they said, are a negative for Chautauqua County: not enough wind to make them profitable, farmers lose agricultural discount, and land values go down. Seventy-five percent of wind energy is subsidized by taxpayers.

There is one addiction that may be more difficult than any other to escapethe addiction to getting something for nothing, wrote Dennis Prager. He referred to able-bodied people who get cash payments, food stamps, subsidized housing, free or subsidized health insurance, and other welfare benefits. Once people received entitlements, politicians know it is nearly impossible to ever reduce them. The Left also is aware of this so constantly seeks to increase entitlements. The more people receiving government benefits, the more people vote left, said Prager. The Democrat Party should be regarded as a drug dealer. It is my right to have this is the theme of those receiving entitlements, making it a moral component for the entitlement addict.

The entitlement state fails in every country. Tens of millions of immigrants are brought in to keep the entitlement state alive, said Prager. This addiction ultimately ruins the character of many of its recipients, the economy of all the countries in which it exists in large numbers, and the value system that created the prosperity that made so many entitlements possible in the first place.

Members discussed A Contrast of Views: TEA Party Conservatism vs. Liberal Progressivism. Key areas were contrasted. For Conservatives, individual freedom, equal opportunity to pursue goals, liberty, rule of law and God-given rights in the U.S. Constitution are fundamental. Contrasted with living constitution, security from big government and focus on a New World Order leading to socialism for Progressives. Conservatives want free market healthcare, insurance across state lines, focus on doctor-patient relationship and fetus regarded as living person. In contrast, Progressives want nationalized single payer healthcare leading to bureaucratic control of doctor-patient relationship and legal right to abortion.

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The Town Talk 11:02 p.m. CT April 12, 2017

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My liberal friends are fretful, Donald Trump has threatened to let Obamacare destroy itself and make Democrats bend to his will in it's remaking.

That's one sixth of the economy, that's one sixth of the jobs and somebody in every family, but the rich, maybe, the rich have cousins, it's possible they care. If Donald Trump takes America hostage and they aren't prepared to burn the country to the ground, like the Tea Party, AKA Freedom Caucus, he'll have to change his name.

Corporate Media will of course ignore the fact that the Tea Party and Judy Miller changed their names for nefarious purposes.

They betrayed the Republic, everyone knew it, they changed their names and, at least in the case of the Tea Party, Freedom Caucus went back to undermining the Republic with every fiber of their beings, in their God's name.

But hey, exposing the fact that the Freedom Caucus is a renamed Tea Party, determined to bend America to it's will or see it go up in flames, would elect Democrats and put downward pressure on shareholder value.

Damian Brumley Montgomery

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