Mexico Joe Donnelly is feeling the heat after being exposed for his do-nothing, anti-Trump record, and has responded with a new ad, where his strategy seems to be to cram as many lies as possible into 30 seconds.
FACT: Mexico Joe has missed 58 of the 372 committee hearings he has been eligible to attend as a Senator.
- Through August 2018, Donnelly has missed 58 of 372, or 15.6 percent, of committee or subcommittee meetings he was eligible to attend as a Senator. Of the 35 banking committee hearings Donnelly missed, two concerned dangerous foreign actors, Iran and North Korea. (U.S. Government Publishing Office, Accessed 5/9/18; Armed Services Committee, Accessed 8/22/18; U.S. Government Publishing Office, 5/25/16; U.S. Government Publishing Office, 9/7/17)
FACT: Mexico Joe is a liberal when it comes to illegal immigration and has voted to give amnesty to millions who crossed the border illegally.
- On June 27, 2013, Donnelly Voted For The 2013 Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill, Which Would Create A Pathway To Citizenship For Illegal Immigrants. (S. 744, Roll Call Vote #168: Bill Passed 68-32, 6/27/13, Donnelly Voted Yea)
FACT: Mexico Joe has voted against Trump-Pence administration policy 57.5% of the time, and voted against confirming Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
- On 47 policy votes tracked by FiveThirtyEight, Donnelly only voted with Trump on 20 (42.5 percent). (FiveThirtyEight’s Tracking Congress In The Age Of Trump, Accessed 8/22/18)
FACT: Mexico Joe has never authored a single bill that has been signed into law, and was named the least-effective Democrat in the United States Senate.
- In 11 years in Congress, no Donnelly-sponsored legislation has been signed into law. Donnelly only sponsored 17 pieces of legislation that passed even one chamber. Of those 17 pieces of legislation, only four were bills. (“Legislation Sponsored Or Cosponsored By Joe Donnelly,” Congress.gov, Accessed 8/22/18)
- In 2017, the Center for Effective Lawmaking named Donnelly the least effective Democrat in the Senate for the 114th Congress (2015-16). Donnelly was the third-least effective Democrat in the Senate for the 113th Congress (2013-14). (“Find Legislators,” Center For Effective Lawmaking, Accessed 10/4/17)
- According to GovTrack, in the 114th Congress (2015-2016) Donnelly had the fewest bills introduced, the fewest cosponsors, the fewest laws enacted, and the third-fewest bills cosponsored among 44 Senate Democrats. (GovTrack, Accessed 11/16/17)