The Man on the Mat With Boehner

Ohioan Wrestles With Speaker Over Deficit Deal

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BY PATRICK O'CONNOR

As House Speaker John Boehner struggles to line up colleagues behind his debt-ceiling plan, his leading Republican opponent is Rep. Jim Jordan, from the district next door in western Ohio.

The hard-charging, 47-year-old former college wrestling champion has emerged as perhaps the biggest thorn in Mr. Boehner's side as he tries to steer a resolution to the debt-ceiling crisis through a balky House.

Mr. Boehner counts 240 lawmakers in his Republican conference. Mr. Jordan lists 175 of them as members of his Republican Study Committee, which aims to be the voice of the chamber's conservatives. He is chairman of the ...

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