Rep. Joe Donnelly

Democrat  •  2nd District, Indiana  •  3rd Term  •  Sworn In 2007
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06/03/12
Change in the 112th Congress

...Incumbent: Open seat (Democrat Jeff Bingaman announced that he wouldn't seek reelection) PHOTO: Courtesey of the office of Joe Donnelly DEMOCRAT/Nevada Name: Rep. Shelley Berkley | Office Sought: Senate | First Elected to House: 1998 | Senate Incumbent:

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06/02/12
When knocked down, Mourdock bounces back, ready to go again

The issues in the 2004 County Council race were arguably less compelling than the issues of global political and national economic stability that Mourdock and Democratic opponent U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly will debate this fall. The six candidates ...

Source: Evansville Courier-Press
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06/02/12
Medical device tax becomes proxy for philosophical dispute between U.S. Senate candidates

that the tax increase is a "terrible thing that threatens jobs" and linked it to the Democratic candidate, U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly. Donnelly's camp then responded by accusing Mourdock of distorting the three-term congressman's record. He ...

Source: Evansville Courier-Press
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06/02/12
Hoosiers work hard to ensure wildlife is protected in Alaska

So concerned, in fact, that he traveled to Washington, D.C., in late May to talk to Indiana Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-2nd District, David Hayes, deputy secretary of the Interior, and Mike Poole, deputy director of the Bureau of Land Management ...

Source: Herald Times
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06/02/12
Rising Anti-Compromise Republicans Ready to Reshape Senate (Washn)

President Obama won the state in 2008 and polls show Mourdock locked in a close race with the Democratic nominee, Rep. Joe Donnelly. "Indiana's a big win" for Democratic hopes in the race, said Jennifer Duffy, a Senate analyst with Cook Political Report.

Source: nola.com
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06/02/12
Some Republicans form group to support Donnelly

Joe (Donnelly) has always looked at Sen ... Mitch Daniels support Mourdock. “Congressman Donnelly’s continued support of ObamaCare, the bailouts of Wall Street, earmark spending, the stimulus package and voting to increase taxes will ...

Source: Martinsville Reporter-Times
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06/02/12
Bipartisan battle waged to keep Toll Road perk

...– Hoosier lawmakers are circling the wagons on the Indiana Toll Road. Reps. Marlin Stutzman, R-3rd, and Joe Donnelly, D-2nd, said Friday they will resist a proposal that would ban privatized highways – including the Toll Road – from qualifying for

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06/02/12
Watchdog Group Calls For Cap On Farm Subsidies

...in the Congress for reforming and eliminating farm subsidies" and supports efforts to end direct payments to farmers. Rep. Joe Donnelly's office told RTV6 the Congressman has worked to reduce unnecessary payments in the 2008 Farm Bill. "As Congress cons

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06/01/12
Medical Device Tax Repeal Moves Forward

“We want to thank Rep. Larry Bucshon (IN-8); Rep. Dan Burton (IN-5); Rep. Joe Donnelly (IN-2); Rep. Mike Pence (IN-6); Rep. Todd Rokita (IN-4); Rep. Marlin Stutzman (IN-3); and Rep. Todd Young (IN-9) for being co-sponsors of this important legislation.

Source: Inside Indiana Business
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06/01/12
Indiana lawmakers' pensions still beat those found in the private sector

Rep. Mike Pence would qualify for about $32,000 a year after he turns 62. If he loses his Senate run, Rep. Joe Donnelly would get about $16,000 a year at 62. $125,000Rep. Dan Burton will get at least $117,000 a year, a watchdog group estimates.

Source: Indianapolis Star
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06/01/12
No voter fraud investigation for former Indiana congressional candidate David McIntosh

Joe Donnelly is reaching out to unlikely allies in his bid ... Donnelly has a moderate record as Indiana's 2nd District congressman and hopes to capitalize on angst over Mourdock's defeat of Lugar in the Republican primary.

Source: Indianapolis Star
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06/01/12
Coats, Mourdock tour Churubusco plant

...toured C&A Tool in Churubusco before providing a joint front in attacking President Obama’s national health-care law and Rep. Joe Donnelly’s support of it. Donnelly faces Mourdock in the U.S. Senate race this fall. The two Republicans specifically t

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06/01/12
House rejects bill penalizing doctors for sex selective abortions

...John Barrow (Ga.), Dan Boren (Okla.), Jim Cooper (Tenn.), Jerry Costello (Ill.), Mark Critz (Pa.), Henry Cuellar (Texas), Joe Donnelly (Ind.), John Garamendi (Calif.), Tim Holden (Pa.), Larry Kissell (N.C.), Daniel Lipinski (Ill.), Stephen Lynch (Mass.)

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06/01/12
Diverse Faces of GOP's Young Guns--PICTURES

...senator. In 2010, he was on the gubernatorial ticket. Jackie Walorski lost her 2010 bid for a House seat against incumbent Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., but she is expected to be a strong contender in District 2, which spans a swath of central Indiana from

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06/01/12
House Democrats Vote to Support Gender-Based Abortions

Today, the House rejected H.R. 3541 The Prenatal Non-Discrimination Act (PRENDA), sponsored by AZ Republican Trent Franks, which would have made it a federal crime for a doctor to perform an abortion based on the gender or race of the fetus. The bill req

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05/31/12
Rising Anti-Compromise Republicans Set to Reshape Senate

President Barack Obama won the state in 2008 and polls show Mourdock locked in a close race with the Democratic nominee, Representative Joe Donnelly. “Indiana’s a big win” for Democratic hopes in the race, said Jennifer Duffy, a Senate ...

Source: Bloomberg
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05/31/12
GOP vows to repeal tax on sales of medical devices

...oppose it. Elizabeth Warren, locked into a tight Massachusetts race with Sen. Scott P. Brown, has called for a repeal, while Rep. Joe Donnelly, running for Senate in Indiana, has signed onto the Paulsen bill. Utah, Delaware, Massachusetts, Indiana and N

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05/30/12
GOP vows to repeal tax on sales of medical devices

Elizabeth Warren, locked into a tight Massachusetts race with Sen. Scott P. Brown, has called for a repeal, while Rep. Joe Donnelly, running for Senate in Indiana, has signed onto the Paulsen bill. Utah, Delaware, Massachusetts, Indiana and New ...

Source: Washington Times
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05/30/12
Medical device tax is questioned

Rep. Joe Donnelly, the Democrat who’s in a high-profile race for Indiana’s Senate seat against Richard Mourdock, is getting slammed over the medical device tax even though he’s one of the co-sponsors of the House repeal bill — and even ...

Source: Politico.com
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05/30/12
Medical device tax questioned

...medical device constituency, including Massachusetts, Minnesota, Indiana, California, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Rep. Joe Donnelly, the Democrat who’s in a high-profile race for Indiana’s Senate seat against Richard Mourdock, is getting slammed ov

Source: The Politico
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05/29/12
Indiana Democrats Launch Attack Highlighting Mourdock’s Website Scrub

Mourdock faces Democratic Congressman Joe Donnelly in the fall campaign. “When he kicked-off his campaign he gave a big speech here in Indianapolis talking about how we didn’t need to compromise. Immediately after the primary he went on ...

Source: WFPL
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05/29/12
IN-Sen: Joe Donnelly (D) Silent on the HHS Lawsuit

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Congressman Joe Donnelly, who is seeking the Senate seat Dick Lugar has been primaried out of, is having a little trouble coming out one way or the other on the Notre Dame HHS lawsuit: When asked by this ...

Source: RedState
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05/29/12
POLITICO Pulse: Tax hits trail

The tax backlash has swept up lawmakers like Rep. Joe Donnelly, a Democrat who’s getting slammed over the device tax in a race for Indiana’s open Senate seat — even though he’s co-sponsoring the House repeal bill and railed against the tax three ..

Source: Politico.com
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05/29/12
Cemetery offers 140th Memorial Day ceremony

...too often "we forget those that we should remember." Those, he said, "who served neighbor and friend above self." U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly said the "reason we have the freedom we have today ... is because of our veterans." Mayor Dennis Tyler spoke of the

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05/29/12
WSJ: Joe Donnelly oddly silent about the Notre Dame lawsuit against the HHS mandate

...Golden Dome while a two-time graduate of Notre Dame refuses to take a position. That would be Mourdock’s opponent, Rep. Joe Donnelly, and the Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn wonders when Donnelly will climb off the fence: It’s a simple questi

Source: Hot Air
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05/29/12
Statewide candidates visit for holiday

After a Memorial Day ceremony in downtown New Castle, Joe Donnelly, a Democratic U.S. representative who's running for the Senate this year, leaned in to shake hands with Mike Pence, a Republican U.S. representative who's running for governor. "Have you ..

Source: Courier-Times
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05/28/12
Statewide candidates visit for holiday

After a Memorial Day ceremony in downtown New Castle, Joe Donnelly, a Democratic U.S. representative who's running for the Senate this year, leaned in to shake hands with Mike Pence, a Republican U.S. representative who's running for governor. "Have you ..

Source: Courier-Times
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05/28/12
Honoring the fallen

...Hometown Band, the 2012 veterans list and a rifle salute by the Delaware County Honor Guard. Speakers will be U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly, Mayor Dennis Tyler and Daniel L. Ivy of the Indiana National Guard. Colby Smith, senior minister of Hazelwood Christian

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05/28/12
Indiana senate hopeful offers break on student loans

...INTERVIEWRepublican U.S. Senate hopeful Richard Mourdock might be under fire from Democrats supporting U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly, but he says the issues they're using to criticize him are largely responsible for his political rise. Mourdock said in a radio

Source: Courier Press
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05/27/12
Indiana senate hopeful offers break on student loans

"MOURDOCK INTERVIEWRepublican U.S. Senate hopeful Richard Mourdock might be under fire from Democrats supporting U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly, but he says the issues they're using to criticize him are largely responsible for his political rise.

Source: Evansville Courier-Press
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