Staffers who worked under former governor Mitch Daniels filed with the Indiana Secretary of State’s office last week to create a political action committee urging Daniels to run for governor in 2024.
The GOP must nominate someone for the remainder of Walorski’s term, which ends Jan. 3, as well as someone for the next two-year term, which starts the same day.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said he’s reaching out to Indiana corporate stalwarts such as Eli Lilly and Co. and Cummins Inc., which have expressed displeasure with Indiana’s new abortion law.
The former congresswoman and the retired federal judge wrote in a column that they are “deeply concerned” about Attorney General Todd Rokita’s actions toward Dr. Caitlin Bernard, the Indiana physician who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old Ohio girl.
The long-pursued bipartisan legislation looks set to spur construction of more than a half-dozen big semiconductor manufacturing facilities in the United States.
The special election announcement came almost one week after Walorski died in a northern Indiana car crash. Her funeral will be held Wednesday.
After a paper shortage delayed the first round of checks by several weeks, all paper needed for printing has now been received, meaning checks can start going out, said a spokesperson for the state auditor’s office.
Despite negative impacts, Indiana’s largest employers didn’t weigh in publicly on the state’s new abortion law while it was being debated.
Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett introduced his 2023 city budget to the City-County Council on Monday evening, highlighting priorities of property tax relief, violence reduction, infrastructure improvements and education.
Major changes to the Affordable Care Act. The nation’s biggest-ever climate bill. The largest tax hike on corporations in decades. And dozens of lesser-known provisions.
Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. said Indiana’s new abortion law could hinder its ability to attract diverse scientific, engineering and business talent to the state.
The Indiana Legislature on Friday approved the near-total abortion ban with some exceptions, including in cases of rape, incest, and to protect the life and physical health of the mother. The measure now goes to Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb.
House members advanced the near-total abortion ban 62-38 with limited exceptions, including in cases of rape and incest, and to protect the life and physical health of the mother.
The Indiana House approved a bill Friday that would provide $200 rebate payments from the state’s surging budget surplus. The Senate could consider the bill later Friday.
U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski and two members of her congressional staff died in the Wednesday afternoon crash in northern Indiana, along with the woman driving the other vehicle, the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office said
The region’s largest business organization said in a statement that Indiana’s proposed abortion ban raises questions that will be difficult to address within the time limits of a special session.
College sports leaders, including outgoing NCAA President Mark Emmert, have repeatedly called for help from Congress in regulating name, image and likeness compensation.
Lawmakers, who have run out of patience with the cryptocurrency industry’s attempts to live out an unregulated Libertarian, bank-free world, are now desperate to implement stringent oversight.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, which has has enraged Beijing and Chinese nationalists, could further muddle Washington’s already complicated relationship with China as the two sides wrest with differences over trade, the war in Ukraine, human rights and more.
As Indiana moves forward with an abortion ban, a small group of Democratic lawmakers and advocates has been hoping to expand the state’s sex education curriculum in an effort to reduce unplanned and unwanted pregnancies.
