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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Ind. Gov't. - "As if the standoff had never happened, the Indiana House of Representatives picked up Mon. night exactly where it left off five weeks ago"

That is the lede to Eric Bradner's story today in the Evansville Courier & Press. Also, a great photo from AJ Mast / Associated Press.

"Democrats return, but will legislators meet session deadline?" is the headline to the Indianapolis Star story today, written by Mary Beth Schneider and Heather Gillers. It begins:

Five weeks lost. Five weeks left.

With Democrats back in the Indiana House, ending a standoff that was one of the longest in Indiana's and the nation's legislative history, the legislature is now in a race against the clock.

Legislators have just five weeks to complete work on a new state budget, draw new legislative and congressional district maps, address education and government reforms and consider hundreds of other bills that had been in limbo until the impasse ended Monday.

And they've got to get it done by April 29, the deadline for this session to end. Go into overtime, and it costs taxpayers money the state can ill-afford.

Here is the story filed last evening by Deanna Martin of the AP.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 29, 2011 09:57 AM
Posted to Indiana Government