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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01/20/12 Thursday, Congressman Joe Donnelly announced that he recently nominated 22 northern Indiana students for admission into the United States service academies for the class of 2016. “I’m pleased that each year so many young people from north central Indiana consider attending our nation’s prestigious service academies,” said Donnelly. “It is an honor to...
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01/19/12 Wednesday, Congressman Joe Donnelly released the following statement after the Obama administration announced that it will reject a Canadian firm’s application for a permit to build and operate the Keystone XL oil pipeline across the U.S.-Canada border. “I am very disappointed that the Obama administration will reject the permit for the Keystone XL...
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12/27/11 Last Friday, Congressman Joe Donnelly released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed the Senate-passed, bipartisan agreement on H.R. 3630, The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2011 by unanimous consent with no members of the House opposing it. Thursday night, House Republican leadership announced they would allow the House to...
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12/21/11 Joe Donnelly, Democratic candidate for United States Senate, reached across the aisle to thank Republican Senator Richard Lugar for standing up to the Tea Party on Monday. Lugar called for the House of Representatives to pass the Senate’s version of the Payroll Tax Cut Extension on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports. “I thank Senator...
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12/13/11 Senate candidate Joe Donnelly spoke from a breakfast with working-class Hoosiers this morning to call for Congress to pass the payroll tax cut extension. The payroll tax cut, which expires at the end of 2011, is worth more than $900 to the average Hoosier and more than 750,000 jobs in the American economy...
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