Gov. Mike Brown said he expects lawmakers to gain sufficient support to redeem and hold special sessions to address “other issues.”
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INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana Governor Mike Brown has shown the most powerful indication that a special session to redraw Hoosier’s state’s congressional map is likely inevitable.
First-term Republicans do not call special sessions without knowing that lawmakers will vote to approve the district change. He repeated this to reporters on September 16th. But his prediction is that he is heading in that direction.
“We’re going to vote for lawmakers. If that’s the case, we’re going to do that,” he said. “My feelings will probably happen.”
Speaking to reporters following the announcement of the new Workforce Training Grant Initiative, Brown noted several lawmakers who have publicly changed their minds on the issue after opposing it. The White House and allies have been putting pressure on since the beginning of last month in the form of a call-up campaign from 501C4 to help push President Donald Trump’s district in the form of a visit from Vice President J.D. Vance to Indiana. He wants to strengthen the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives ahead of the midterm elections.
Seven of Indiana’s nine seats are held by Republicans, but lawmakers can redraw the map to give Republicans one or two more seats.
Both the Indiana House and the Senate GOP Caucus met last week to continue discussing the rezoning.
Brown also suggested for the first time that “other issues” would appear when he invoke a special session.
Asked what they were, Brown said he had nothing to say except that he offered one possibility: By passing laws that further adjust Indiana laws to Trump’s so-called “one big beautiful bill,” we can benefit from what was changed in the big bill.
Indiana Rep. Ed Delaney of Indianapolis, received Brown’s comments and means that he currently doesn’t have enough votes to call out the traditional special session to focus solely on the efforts of “Shoplift Congressional Seats.”
“Instead, he will try to find a way to blend this difficult, challenging topic with our usual business,” he said. “Wait and watch. I’ll be here in November.”
By law, regular sessions of strange numbers of years in late November are ceremonially convened, heading out for the holidays and reconvened by the fourth Monday of January.
Brown believes things are moving in the direction of rezoning, but he says he hopes the decision will be “organic.”
“It’s going to have its own evolution,” he said. “Look tuned. I want it to happen where leaders and lawmakers feel satisfied with it.”
Meanwhile, Democrats plan to serve as opposed constituencies at the Capitol on September 18th, along with former Transport Secretary Pete Buttigigue.
Indystar Statehouse Reporter Contact Kayla Dwyer at kdwyer@indystar.com or follow us on X @kayla_dwyer17.
