04/24/12 Thursday, Congressman Joe Donnelly voted for the Small Business Tax Cut Act, H.R. 9, which would allow businesses with fewer than 500 employees to receive a tax deduction equal to 20% of their domestic business income. In Indiana, approximately 97% of businesses have fewer than 500 employees, and therefore would qualify for...
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04/18/12 Tuesday, after President Obama announced his plan to address speculation in oil markets, Congressman Joe Donnelly released the following statement: “Gas prices are too high in Indiana, so I am encouraged by the administration’s attention to the issue of oil speculation. I support increasing the maximum civil and criminal penalties for manipulative activity...
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03/28/12 On Monday, Congressman Joe Donnelly sent a letter to President Obama urging him to open the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Opening the SPR has temporarily reduced gas prices in the past. Last year, President Obama’s order to release 30 million barrels of oil from the SPR lead to a six percent reduction...
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03/22/12 This week, Congressman Joe Donnelly encouraged high school students to participate in the U.S. House of Representatives’ annual art competition, the Artistic Discovery Contest. The winner of the competition from Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District will have his or her piece displayed for one year in the Cannon Tunnel leading to the U.S....
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03/20/12 Last week, Congressman Donnelly announced that he and colleagues sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative, Ambassador Ron Kirk and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Honorable Tom Vilsack to urge them to stand up for America’s beef and pork producers against protectionist trade policies. Specifically, the letter expressed concern about the restrictions that...
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03/15/12 Wednesday, Congressman Joe Donnelly released the following statement on the Obama Administration’s decision to take up the case of Chinese restrictions on rare earth metals at the World Trade Organization. “I am glad that the president talked this afternoon about China’s unfair trade practices. Those unfair practices rig the game to benefit Chinese...
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02/20/12 Friday, Congressman Joe Donnelly released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3630, The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012, which will extend the payroll tax cuts for working- and middle-class families through the end of the year. “I voted to extend the payroll tax...
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02/17/12 Thursday, Congressman Joe Donnelly spoke on the House floor to honor late Indiana National Guardsman, Specialist Robert J. Tauteris, Jr., who died while serving in Afghanistan. Robert’s two sons, Robert J. III and Mathew, and his daughter-in-law, Kayla, watched Donnelly’s speech from the gallery in the House chamber. Watch Donnelly’s floor speech here....
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02/16/12 Tuesday, the day of Vice President of China Xi Jinping’s visit with President Obama in Washington, D.C., Congressman Joe Donnelly renewed his call for congressional action to end the Chinese government’s unfair practices that make Chinese products artificially cheap, leading to a loss of American jobs. “We must crack down on the...
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02/13/12 Last week, Congressman Joe Donnelly voted for The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, H.R. 1148, which would prohibit insider trading by Members of Congress, congressional employees, or other federal employees. Although Donnelly is pleased that the bill passed the House, he would have preferred an even stronger bill. A key provision,...
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