{"id":366501,"date":"2010-02-26T14:27:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T19:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"tag:donnelly.house.gov,2010:\/\/4.1366"},"modified":"2010-02-26T14:27:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T19:27:37","slug":"congressman-donnelly-rated-8th-most-conservative-democrat-in-u-s-house-of-representatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/366501","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Donnelly Rated 8th Most Conservative Democrat in U.S. House of Representatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Washington, D.C.<\/b> &ndash; Today, <i>National Journal Magazine<\/i> rated Congressman Joe Donnelly the 8th most conservative Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives.&nbsp; <i>National Journal<\/i> ranks every member of Congress based on key economic, social, and foreign policy votes each year.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Since coming to Congress, I&rsquo;ve pledged to put the needs of north central Indiana first,&rdquo; said Donnelly.&nbsp; &ldquo;I am not here to vote with any particular political party&mdash;I&rsquo;m here to vote on behalf of Hoosiers back home.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>This ranking is consistent with Congressman Donnelly&rsquo;s established record of putting the needs of his district before political party affiliation.&nbsp; Earlier this year, <i>Congressional Quarterly<\/i> rated him the 13th most independent Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2009, according to their ratings formula.<\/p>\n<p>For the complete 2009 Vote Ratings Article from<i> National Journal Magazine,<\/i> including rankings for the House of Representatives, Senate, and explanation of the ratings process, please click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/2009voteratings\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. &ndash; Today, National Journal Magazine rated Congressman Joe Donnelly the 8th most conservative Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives.&nbsp; National Journal ranks every member of Congress based on key economic, social, and foreign policy votes each year.&nbsp; &ldquo;Since coming to Congress, I&rsquo;ve pledged to put the needs of north central Indiana first,&rdquo; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}