Joe Donnelly, considered one of the nation's most vulnerable Democratic senators up for re-election next year, has long blasted free-trade policies for killing American jobs. But he has profited from his family's arts and crafts company, which ships material to Mexico for cheap production.
From the Associated Press:
Read Full Article »During his first run for the House in 2004, the former three-term congressman took on both NAFTA and the practice of “outsourcing”— a word he has called “a fancy term for, ‘Someone in Indiana has just lost their job.'”
He's currently sponsoring a bill entitled the “End Outsourcing Act,” which would require companies to disclose jobs moved abroad, deny some tax benefits and economic incentives to those companies and also require the federal government to take into account a company's outsourcing practices when awarding contracts.
