If Congress fails to approve a funding extension by the end of Tuesday, spending laws will expire and the U.S. government will become a bare-bones operation, continuing only functions necessary to protect life or public property.
The government will shut down at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday if the Senate does not pass a House measure that would extend federal funding for seven weeks while lawmakers finish their work on annual spending bills.
The request comes less than two weeks after the company informed the City-County Council that it intended to withdraw its proposal amid intense pushback from neighbors and some city leaders.
After nearly two hours of occasionally passionate discussion, the nine-member panel voted unanimously to deny church leaders’ request to raze the historic building and the attached rectory at 125 N. Oriental St.
Nearly five months have passed since a report about the Hogsett administration’s handling of sexual harassment allegations was released. But the City-County Council is preparing to take more steps involving the investigation.
On the third day of the shutdown, another Senate vote to advance a Republican bill that would reopen the government failed on a 54-44 tally—well short of the 60 needed to end a filibuster and pass the legislation.
In an op-ed for The Indianapolis Star on Thursday, Republican Councilor Michael-Paul Hart wrote that Hogsett has displayed a “pattern of corruption, negligence and lack of judgment.”
The proposed Ironstone at Hortonville would feature housing, shops, restaurants and recreational amenities in an area just off the city’s current northern boundaries.
More than half of the 25-member Indianapolis City-County Council signed a public letter opposing the proposed deal, saying AES Indiana “continues to fall short on service.”
When President Trump launched his trade war with China shortly after he returned to the White House, Beijing readily deployed its new tools in addition to raising tariffs to match those imposed by the U.S.
A special meeting of the council next week will allow public comment regarding the recommendations, based on the results of an investigation into Mayor Joe Hogsett’s handling of harassment allegations within his administration.
The arrests of current and former high-profile NBA figures on Thursday for illegal sports betting and rigged poker games spurred fresh calls from lawmakers for federal regulation.
Council leaders say they want a third party to investigate human resources complaints at the City-County Building, but steps on how that would happen are far from being worked out.
Vijay Kumar Vemulapalli, principal of Washington Square owner Durga Property Holdings, said he thinks the city of Indianapolis is issuing code violations in an attempt to force him to sell the property.
