Lawmakers push for early exit (Journal Gazette)
Eager-to-stump lawmakers push for early exit
Niki Kelly - The Journal Gazette
INDIANAPOLIS – House Speaker Pat Bauer, D-South Bend, has his eye on ending the legislative session early.
The scheduled end date is March 14, but Bauer said members of the House are “pressing hard” to be out by the beginning of March.
“I don’t know if we can,” Bauer said.
Leaving early would give all 100 members of the House – who are up for re-election this year – more time to campaign in this critically important campaign cycle.
The party that wins the majority in November’s election gets the right to draw new legislative boundaries in 2011. Those new districts would last for 10 years.
LINK: http://journalgazette.com/article/20100119/NEWS07/301199996