Senate moves tax cut legislation to brink of final passage
After midnight—as protesters interrupted with chants of "kill the bill, don't kill us"—the Senate narrowly passed the legislation on a party-line 51-48 vote.
After midnight—as protesters interrupted with chants of "kill the bill, don't kill us"—the Senate narrowly passed the legislation on a party-line 51-48 vote.
Sen. Mike Crider of Greenfield says he doesn’t have the financial support needed to continue his 6th District campaign.
A wide range of economists and nonpartisan analysts have warned that the bill will likely escalate federal debt, intensify pressure to cut spending on social programs and further widen America's troubling income inequality.
Sen. Joe Donnelly’s reelection campaign says he signed over his stock in the company on Aug. 11 for $17,410 and plans to donate the proceeds to 10 different charities across Indiana.
State Sen. Mike Crider, one of at least two Republicans in the race, said he believes the 2018 election will be competitive, as the country is “deeply divided.”
Indiana hospitals are bracing for congressional action that could mean deep cuts in Medicaid, which funds the state’s popular health insurance program for low-income adults.
Democrats thought Indiana’s 9th district would be competitive in 2016, but Rep. Trey Hollingsworth won the election by 14 percentage points. Progressives think they’ll have a much better shot in 2018, especially if President Donald Trump stumbles.
Leigh Ann Pusey will join Eli Lilly and Co. next month as senior vice president for corporate affairs and communications.
Five years of progress reducing the number of Americans without health insurance has come to a halt. It will be watched closely as Republicans attempt to roll back the Affordable Care Act.
The House’s $1 trillion federal spending bill, crafted over the weekend, includes $50 million for the Red Line. Project funding has been in limbo for more than a year.
House committees planned to begin voting on the 123-page legislation Wednesday, launching what could be the year's defining battle in Congress and capping seven years of Republican vows to repeal the troubled 2010 law.
For years, medical-device makers in Indiana and around the nation have insisted that the 2.3 percent tax on sales to help fund the Affordable Care Act has hurt business and slowed innovation.
The role would thrust the 73-year-old Coats, who retired from the U.S. Senate last year, into the center of the intelligence community the president-elect has publicly challenged.
Tom Linebarger points to the company’s Seymour plant where 800 employees produce high-speed diesel engines—70 percent of which are exported globally—as a key reason he believes free trade is good for the Hoosier worker.
The Republican Party selected Todd Rokita and Susan Brooks during caucuses to fill vacancies created last month when the two pulled out so that they could seek the party’s nomination for governor.
The sprawling section of the state might not be a gimme for the GOP in a race one Democratic strategist says is between “Miss Indiana and Mr. Tennessee.”
Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard on Monday said he’d rather stay in his current job than run for the 5th Congressional District. The Republican ballot opened up earlier this month, and Brainard told IBJ he was considering it.
John Brademas was a Democrat and served 11 terms in Congress. He rose to majority whip, the No. 3 position in the U.S. House, before losing his seat in the 1980 Republican landslide when Ronald Reagan was elected to his first term as president.
Competitive and highly publicized races in Indiana’s May 3 primary election drove more voters to the polls than four years ago. Early voting also was up.
Political newcomer John Dickerson—a Democrat who previously led The Arc of Indiana—announced Wednesday he has suspended his U.S. Senate campaign because of fundraising challenges.