{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.donnelly.senate.gov/newsroom/press/icymi-donnelly-recognized-as-4th-most-bipartisan-member-of-congress", "ICYMI: Donnelly Recognized as 4th Most Bipartisan Member of Congress", "2016-11-02", "2016", "2016-11", "Democrat", "House", "IN", "Joe Donnelly", "D000607", "www.donnelly.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "ICYMI: Donnelly Recognized as 4th Most Bipartisan Member of Congress\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tDonnelly the most bipartisan Democrat in all of Congress, 2nd most bipartisan Senator according to Lugar Center Index\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tWednesday, November 2, 2016\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tIndianapolis, Ind. \u2014 U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly has been recognized as the fourth most bipartisan member of Congress and the most bipartisan Democrat in both the U.S. House and U.S. Senate, according to Lugar Center Bipartisan Index compiled by the Christian Science Monitor. Earlier this year, Donnelly was ranked the second most bipartisan member of the U.S. Senate.\r\nDonnelly said, when the Lugar Center rankings for 2015 were released, earlier this year, \u201cI am the hired help and my job is to get things done for Indiana in the U.S. Senate. That responsibility has nothing to do with party affiliation and everything to do with supporting the best ideas, regardless of whether the idea comes from a Republican or a Democrat.\u201d\r\nBelow is an excerpt from the Christian Science Monitor article:\r\nMeet the 5 most bipartisan politicians in Congress\r\nBy Story Hinckley\r\nThese five politicians were ranked as the most bipartisan members of Congress by\u00a0The Lugar Center\u2019s 2015 Bipartisan Index.\r\n\u2026\r\n4. Sen. Joe Donnelly (D) of Indiana\r\nThis summer, Senator Donnelly and Sen. Ben Sasse (R) of Nebraska led a bipartisan coalition of 70 senators to address federal regulators\u2019 approach to credit unions and community banks. In\u00a0a letter to Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Donnelly and his colleagues urged the bureau to treat credit unions and community banks \u201cdifferently from the largest financial institutions,\u201d just as federal regulators do.\r\nAnd in 2015, Donnelly partnered with Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R) of New Hampshire to address heroin and prescription drug abuse in the US.\r\n\u201cThis bipartisan legislation would help support and strengthen local and state efforts to tackle this urgent public health issue,\u201d said Donnelly\u00a0in a press release. \u201cI am proud to continue working with my friend Senator Ayotte to help address this epidemic affecting Indiana and our country.\u201d\r\nDonnelly is often seen as walking in Richard G. Lugar\u2019s footsteps. Mr. Lugar, A former Indiana senator himself, is the president of The Lugar Center and the inspiration for its Bipartisan Index.\r\n\u201cWe weren\u2019t hired to help our party,\u201d Sen. Donnelly\u00a0said last year. \u201cWe were hired to do what\u2019s right for the United States of America.\u201d\r\n\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/icymi-donnelly-recognized-as-4th-most-bipartisan-member-of-congress"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1635147966444492, "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"}