IndianaIndiana House urges Congress to establish a regular budget process
Indiana’s House urges Congress to establish a regular budget process and directs its clerk to send that request to Indiana’s members of Congress.
What it does
Indiana’s House calls the national debt a security threat and urges Congress to establish a regular, effective budget process. Its clerk must send the resolution to Indiana’s members of Congress.
Argument forSending the resolution to Indiana’s members of Congress could encourage them to focus on a regular process for writing federal budgets.
Argument againstBecause the resolution only urges Congress to act, it may leave federal budget practices unchanged despite identifying a national security concern.
More detail
Indiana’s House recognizes the national debt as a threat to U.S. national security and urges Congress to establish a regular, effective budget process. The request goes to the U.S. Congress. The House’s principal clerk must send a copy to each of Indiana’s members of Congress. The request does not require Congress to change its budget process.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Adopted
Looking ahead
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History
- 2026
- Feb 18Representative Borders added as coauthorLatest
- Vote recorded HR 28 - O'Brien. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 18Representatives Goss-Reaves, DeVon, Davis added as coauthors
- Feb 18Representatives Lehman, Dant Chesser added as coauthors
- Feb 18Representative Pressel added as coauthor
- Feb 18Representative Novak R added as coauthor
- Feb 18Representative Carbaugh added as coauthor
- Feb 18Second reading: adopted Roll Call 273: yeas 91, nays 0Adopted
- Feb 18Representatives Hostettler, Wesco added as coauthors
- Feb 17Committee report: do pass, adoptedMinor
- Feb 17Representative Commons added as coauthor
- Feb 16Representatives Bascom, Isa added as coauthors
- Feb 5Authored by Representative O'Brien
- Feb 5Coauthored by Representatives King, Abbott, Aylesworth, Baird, Bartels, Burton, Cash, Clere, Criswell, Culp, Engleman, Haggard, Heaton, Ireland, Judy, Karickhoff, Lauer, Lawson, Ledbetter, Lindauer, Lucas, Manning, McGuire, Miller D, Morris, Olthoff, Patterson, Payne, Pierce K, Prescott, Rowray, Slager, Smaltz, Smith H, Soliday, Sweet, Teshka, VanNatter, Yocum, Zimmerman
- Feb 5First reading: referred to the Committee on Ways and MeansIntroduced
- Feb 18Representative Borders added as coauthorLatest
Taxes & BudgetNational Security