Former state Rep. Melanie Wright of Yorktown announced her campaign for central Indiana’s 5th District on Facebook, saying she wanted to help others and solve problems regardless of political affiliation.
Invoking a filibuster rules change won’t be easy, in part because all Democratic senators would need to be on board.
Gov. Eric Holcomb’s signature was the final step in the redistricting for Indiana’s nine congressional seats and 150 seats in the state Legislature.
In the finale of the once-in-a-decade redistricting process, the state legislative and congressional maps made it out of the Legislature with few changes from when they were introduced two weeks ago.
Democrats tried and failed to make several changes to the proposed state Senate and congressional maps.
Deeply at odds, President Joe Biden and his party are facing a potentially embarrassing setback—if not politically devastating collapse of the whole enterprise—if they cannot resolve the standoff over Biden’s ambitious vision.
The back-to-back votes by the Senate and then the House will help avert one crisis, but just delay another as the political parties dig in on a dispute over how to raise the government’s borrowing cap before the United States risks a potentially catastrophic default.
The House is expected to approve the measure following the Senate vote Thursday, preventing a partial government shutdown when the new fiscal year begins Friday.
The Indiana Senate elections committee voted 7-2 along party lines in favor of the Republican-drawn redistricting plan for the state’s nine congressional districts and 150 state legislative seats based on population shifts from the 2020 census.
Sens. Joe Manchin D-W.Va., and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., are linchpins for the final package—two centrist lawmakers who have balked at the price tag and are now under pressure to show Biden what amount they could live with.
With days to go, Democrats said they will try again before Thursday’s deadline to pass a bill funding government operations past the Sept. 30 fiscal year end.
Critics assailed the proposed new Indiana congressional and legislative districts on Monday as rigged in favor of Republicans.
Luke Messer has left law firm Faegre Drinker to join Indianapolis-based Bose Public Affairs Group LLC, where he will counsel corporate clients in Indiana and in Washington, D.C., on governmental matters.
They are making a final effort to have an influence on Indiana’s Republican-controlled redistricting process as new maps are drawn for the state’s legislative and congressional districts.
Staring down a self-imposed Monday deadline, lawmakers said they would work nonstop to find agreement on specifics. Democrats’ views on those vary widely, but they largely agree with Biden’s idea of raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy.
The Indiana House on Thursday approved new state legislative and congressional election district maps, sending the maps to the Senate for consideration.
The intense focus on Biden’s big-money domestic proposal showcases how much is at stake politically for the president and his party in Congress.
The federal government faces a shutdown if funding stops on Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year—midnight next Thursday. Additionally, at some point in October, the U.S. risks defaulting on its accumulated debt load if its borrowing limits are not waived or adjusted.
Indianapolis would gain a new state Senate district under Republicans’ proposed district maps, but the changes likely would otherwise have little impact on the GOP’s 39-11 supermajority in the Senate.
Congress is rushing into an all-too-familiar stalemate: The government faces a shutdown if funding stops at the end of the fiscal year, Sept. 30. At the same time, the U.S. risks defaulting on its debt load if the borrowing limits are not waived or adjusted.
