{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.donnelly.senate.gov/newsroom/press/donnelly-to-trump-carrier-is-good-start", "Donnelly to Trump: Carrier is Good Start, But We Must Change Federal Policies to Prevent Offshoring of Jobs", "2016-11-30", "2016", "2016-11", "Democrat", "House", "IN", "Joe Donnelly", "D000607", "www.donnelly.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Donnelly to Trump: Carrier is Good Start, But We Must Change Federal Policies to Prevent Offshoring of Jobs\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tSenator sends letter to President-elect in advance of Indianapolis visit; cites other offshoring job losses \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tWednesday, November 30, 2016\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWashington, D.C. \u2013 In advance of President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s visit to Carrier in Indiana on Thursday and on the heels of last night\u2019s news that hundreds of Carrier jobs will be protected, U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly sent a letter to Trump encouraging him to prioritize changes to our federal policies in order to prevent the further offshoring of American jobs.\r\nDonnelly said, in part, in the letter, \u201cWhile this is welcome news, particularly to the families who will keep their jobs, there are hundreds of additional workers at the Carrier facility and 700 workers at the UTEC facility in Huntington, all of whom will still lose their jobs. There are also a number of other Hoosier companies planning to move jobs offshore, including CTS Corporation in Elkhart and Rexnord Corporation, a company located just one mile from the Carrier facility in Indianapolis you will visit tomorrow\u2026I hope we can build on the momentum created by your agreement with United Technologies to make changes in order to benefit working Americans across the country.\r\n\u201cHowever, until we update our federal policies to better prevent offshoring, I 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. I stand ready to assist in any way possible.\u201d\r\nFor months, Donnelly has fought alongside the Carrier workers and pushed to keep these jobs in Indiana. He also released a white paper and sent proposals to the Senate Finance Committee in May aimed at preventing and discouraging major corporations from shipping jobs to foreign countries. The Senator asked that the following policy recommendations be included in any tax reform effort, including: denying expensing for offshoring moving costs; considering offshoring as a factor in federal contracting,; clawing back and restricting tax incentives; and providing incentives to invest in rural and low-income communities.\r\nTo read Donnelly\u2019s letter, click here or see below.\r\nNovember 30, 2016\u00a0\r\nDear President-elect Trump:\r\nI was pleased to learn of the agreement you reached with United Technologies to keep hundreds of Carrier jobs in Indianapolis. I am eager to learn the specific details of the agreement.\r\nWhile this is welcome news, particularly to the families who will keep their jobs, there are hundreds of additional workers at the Carrier facility and 700 workers at the UTEC facility in Huntington, all of whom will still lose their jobs. There are also a number of other Hoosier companies planning to move jobs offshore, including CTS Corporation in Elkhart and Rexnord Corporation, a company located just one mile from the Carrier facility in Indianapolis you will visit tomorrow. There are more than 500 jobs at risk between those two companies.\r\nI have been fighting alongside these workers for years, arguing that we have an obligation to ensure that federal policies are designed to benefit the U.S. economy, and that we encourage investment in the foundation of our economy\u2014American workers, their families, and our communities. To that end, I have also proposed a series of recommendations that would deny and claw back certain tax benefits to companies that move jobs offshore, and ensure offshoring is a factor when awarding federal contracts.\u00a0I hope we can build on the momentum created by your agreement with United Technologies to make these changes in order to benefit working Americans across the country.\r\nHowever, until we update our federal policies to better prevent offshoring, I 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. I stand ready to assist in any way possible.\r\nThank you for your efforts on behalf of Hoosier workers. I look forward to continuing this fight in the coming months.\r\nSincerely,\r\nJoe Donnelly\r\nUnited States Senator\r\n###", 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/press/donnelly-to-trump-carrier-is-good-start"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.009560190141201, "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"}