Indiana leaders push conservative-backed national debt denunciation
House Resolution 28 recognizes the national debt as a national security threat and calls on Congress to establish “an effective regular order for budgeting.”
House Resolution 28 recognizes the national debt as a national security threat and calls on Congress to establish “an effective regular order for budgeting.”
Sen. Liz Brown, the Republican who authored Senate Bill 76, on Monday signed off on significant changes the House made to the bill.
Hunley announced last month she will not seek re-election for her Senate District 46 seat, and recent tweaks to her campaign website add to the speculation that she might be preparing to mount a run for Indianapolis mayor.
House Bill 1333 would require data center developers that receive sales tax exemptions to give 1% of the abatement to local governments.
Critics say the township model is outdated and inefficient and adds an unnecessary layer of government. Legislation from both chambers of the Indiana Statehouse would pare down township government.
Having states administer elections divides power among people and parties. It assures that not everyone who oversees voting comes from the same background or culture or religion or politician persuasion.
An entire generation of Hoosier children is bearing the weight of the largest unregulated experiment ever conducted on young minds, and the discussion our state is having today on this issue is long overdue.
Large swaths of the Department of Homeland Security are set to shut down Saturday after Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked two funding bills.
This shutdown would not shutter Immigration and Customs Enforcement or U.S. Customs and Border Protection, because Republicans sent those agencies tens of billions of dollars in additional funding last year that would allow them to continue operating.
The measure is largely symbolic but it showcases the long-standing frustration some congressional Republicans have with Trump’s controversial trade policies.
The bill now moves to the Senate Appropriations Committee, which could consider changes that include narrowing where a casino could be located.
Notably, the Congressional Budget Office says higher tariffs partially offset some of those increases by raising federal revenue by $3 trillion, but that also comes with higher inflation from 2026 to 2029.
Republican lawmakers are divided over limiting disease spread versus arguments of enabling drug abuse.
House Enrolled Act 1004, passed in 2023, required the Indiana Department of Insurance to contract with a third party to calculate how Indiana’s nonprofit hospital systems’ commercial prices compared to Medicare reimbursements over time.
Language buried in a bill about local finances would override ordinances in Carmel and Fishers and prevent other local governments from restricting or banning rental properties.
Indiana lawmakers on Monday revisited a controversial provision in Senate Bill 199 that would require state officials to scrutinize and potentially eliminate certain low-wage college degree programs offered at Indiana’s public institutions.
Trump’s threat comes as the relationship between the U.S. and Canada increasingly sours during the U.S. president’s second term.
All nine U.S. House and 100 Indiana House seats are up for election this year, along with half of the 50 Indiana Senate seats. The candidate filing period ended at noon on Friday.
Several Democratic election officials, and some Republicans, have spoken out. Placing voting under control of the federal government would represent a fundamental violation of the Constitution, they note.
President Donald Trump said at a recent Cabinet meeting that the economy could hit growth “numbers that have never been hit before.”