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Joe Donnelly

Former

Democrat · IN · U.S. Senate

No longer in office — profile reflects their service in the 114th–119th Congresses (2015–present).

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

FiscalHealthImmig.GunsAbortionEnviron.CrimeDefenseEconomyForeignCivil R.Educ.GovtJudicial
Taxes & Fiscal
R+0.05
Healthcare
D+0.04
Immigration & Border
R+0.53
Guns
R+1.00
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
D+0.56
Environment & Energy
R+0.34
Crime & Policing
D+0.20
Defense & Veterans
R+0.69
Economy & Labor
D+0.25
Foreign Policy & Trade
D+0.10
Civil Rights & Social
D+0.49
Education
R+0.15
Government & Democracy
R+0.25
Judicial & Executive Nominations
R+0.15

Each issue runs left right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Joe Donnelly's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

On the political map

Joe Donnelly (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

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Most and least aligned members

Treating Donnelly's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.

Recent notable votes

YEA
Child Protection Improvements Act of 2017
2018-12-19 · Motion for Attendance Agreed to · Crime & Policing, Civil Rights & Social
NAY
Thomas Alvin Farr, of North Carolina, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina
2018-11-28 · Cloture Motion Agreed to · Judicial & Executive Nominations
NAY
Thomas Alvin Farr, of North Carolina, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina
2018-11-28 · Cloture Motion Agreed to · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Michelle Bowman, of Kansas, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for the unexpired term of fourteen years from February 1, 2006
2018-11-14 · Cloture Motion Agreed to · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Frank LoBiondo Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2018
2018-11-13 · Cloture Motion Agreed to · Government & Democracy
NAY
Jeffrey Bossert Clark, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Attorney General
2018-10-11 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Thomas S. Kleeh, of West Virginia, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia
2018-10-11 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
NAY
Eric S. Dreiband, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Attorney General
2018-10-11 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
NAY
David James Porter, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit
2018-10-11 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
NAY
Ryan Douglas Nelson, of Idaho, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit
2018-10-11 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Richard J. Sullivan, of New York, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit
2018-10-11 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
YEA
Richard J. Sullivan, of New York, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit
2018-10-11 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations

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