{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.donnelly.senate.gov/newsroom/article/-citing-trump-rust-belt-democrats-demand-crackdown-on-outsourcers", "Citing Trump, Rust Belt Democrats demand crackdown on outsourcers", "2016-12-06", "2016", "2016-12", "Democrat", "House", "IN", "Joe Donnelly", "D000607", "www.donnelly.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Citing Trump, Rust Belt Democrats demand crackdown on outsourcers\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n                \r\n            \r\n            \r\n            \r\n                \r\n                    By:\u00a0\r\n                    Mike DeBonis\r\n                \r\n            \r\n            \r\n                \r\n                \r\n                \r\n            Tuesday, December 6, 2016\r\n            \n\t\n\r\n            \r\n            Six Democratic senators from Rust Belt states won by President-elect Donald Trump called Tuesday for a swift congressional crackdown on U.S. companies that send manufacturing jobs abroad, claiming common cause with Trump\u2019s crusade against outsourcing.\r\nTrump on Sunday tweeted that \u201cany business that leaves our country for another country, fires its employees, builds a new factory or plant in the other country, and then thinks it will sell its product back into the U.S. without retribution or consequence, is WRONG!\u201d He threatened to impose a 35 percent tariff on goods those companies seek to import.\r\nThe Democratic senators from Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin stopped short of calling for a protectionist tariff regime. But in a letter to congressional leaders Tuesday, they applauded \u201cthe recent attention President-elect Trump has brought to the issue of outsourcing and its impact on middle-class families\u201d and called for legislation that would penalize companies that send jobs abroad.\r\nThose penalties, they say, should include taking into consideration any history of outsourcing while awarding federal contracts and potentially keeping outsourcers from receiving tax breaks and other federal incentives, and \u201cclawing back\u201d those incentives if companies later ship jobs out of the country.\r\n\u201cThe loss of manufacturing jobs in our states has contributed to the decades-long trend of the declining middle class,\u201d the letter reads. \u201cWe believe these principles \u2014 which we intend to introduce as legislation \u2014 are critical to our shared commitment to encourage companies to invest in the United States and in American workers.\u201d\r\nAlong with the letter, the incoming Senate Democratic leader, Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), issued a statement of support Tuesday: \u201cSenate Democrats have fought to reverse the outsourcing trend that hurts American workers for years, and we\u2019re pleased the President-elect wants to address it as well. We hope he\u2019ll put pressure on Congressional Republicans to support real, meaningful policy that will protect jobs here at home.\u201d\r\nThe lead signer of the letter was Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.), who praised the decision last month by Carrier Corp., under pressure from Trump, to reverse its decision to send hundreds of Indianapolis manufacturing jobs to Mexico. The company is still planning to move hundreds of other jobs, and Donnelly has pushed Trump to do more.\r\n\u201cI strongly encourage you to make it clear that efforts to ship jobs offshore to chase cheap wages will be addressed head on by the Trump Administration,\u201d Donnelly wrote in a separate letter last week. \u201cI stand ready to assist in any way possible.\u201d\r\nDonnelly is up for reelection in 2018 in a state where Trump won 57 percent of the vote.\r\nAlso signing the letter were Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Robert P. Casey Jr. (D-Pa.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.).", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.donnelly.senate.gov/newsroom/article/-citing-trump-rust-belt-democrats-demand-crackdown-on-outsourcers"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.8013340197503567, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}