Washington, D.C. – In the wake of Wednesday’s announcement that Carrier and UTEC will be offshoring jobs from Indiana and moving them to Mexico, U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly pressed Janet Yellen, Chair of the Federal Reserve, during a Senate Banking Committee hearing today on her semi-annual report to Congress on …
Read More »Coats, Donnelly Express Optimism about HUD Proposal to Clarify RV Definition
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Joe Donnelly and Dan Coats expressed cautious optimism regarding the proposed rule from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that would more clearly exempt recreational vehicles (RVs) from manufactured housing standards. The current HUD definition was written decades ago, but technological …
Read More »IMA: Reasonable and Responsible Environmental Rulemaking Needed
Indiana’s environmental rules and regulations should be effective, reasonable and responsible. That is why the Indiana Manufacturers Association strongly supports HB 1082. The bill would require that Indiana mirror federal EPA requirements, while at the same time allow for flexibility for unique situations that may arise in the future. This …
Read More »Donnelly Urges Evaluation into Potential Contributing Factor to Opioid Abuse Crisis
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly joined a bipartisan group of Senators this week urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell to evaluate whether certain questions on the hospital patient satisfaction surveys are a contributing factor to the nationwide prescription opioid abuse epidemic. This …
Read More »Carrier to Close Indianapolis Plant Moving 1,400 Jobs to Mexico
Carrier, a manufacture of furnaces at a facility on W. Morris St. in Indianapolis say they plan to relocate over the next three years in three phases. The heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigeration system (HVAC) company will begin the process in 2017 and hopes to complete everything by 2019. They …
Read More »Democrats plan to challenge candidacy of GOP Senate candidate Todd Young
With Eric Holcomb out of the race for Senate, two GOP candidates are left: Todd Young and Marlin Stutzman. Reportedly, Indiana Democrats plan to file a challenge to Young’s candidacy. They question whether he has enough valid signatures to be on the ballot. They will argue that some of those …
Read More »ISP Responds to School Bus and Vehicle Collision in Putnam County
Putnam County—Indiana State Police and Putnam County emergency agencies responded to a two-vehicle crash involving a school bus on County Road 800 West just north of US 40 Wednesday afternoon. Preliminary investigation revealed a 2005 Lincoln LS, driven by 30-year-old Brandi L. Brown of Reelsville, IN., was southbound on CR …
Read More »Donnelly: “Strategic Patience has Worn Thin…Time to Act by Expanding Tough Sanctions”
Washington, D.C. –Today, U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly helped the Senate pass bipartisan legislation that would allow the United States to apply sanctions on North Korea and on those attempting to do business with North Korea. Donnelly also took to the Senate floor to call for U.S. leadership to counter North …
Read More »Coats Votes to Strengthen Sanctions Against North Korea
WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Dan Coats (R-Ind.) today voted to strengthen and expand sanctions against North Korea. The legislation comes after a North Korean nuclear test last month and a long-range rocket launch by the country over the weekend in the isolated state. “Simply standing by and allowing this regime …
Read More »State Auditor Launches 21st Century Government Transparency Tour
Joining local business leaders at a Southwest Indiana Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Evansville today, State Auditor Suzanne Crouch launched the21st Century Government Transparency tour. The tour seeks input from the public to improve Indiana’s Transparency Portal, a website administered by the State Auditor’s office that gives Hoosiers the opportunity …
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