U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), members of the Senate Finance Committee, have urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to enhance protections against excessive and unnecessary recoveries of pancreata by organ procurement organizations (OPOs). This call follows a significant increase in pancreata recovery rates in recent years.
On June 7, 2024, U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), along with 44 Senate colleagues, introduced a bipartisan Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution aimed at overturning a Biden Administration rule concerning unaccompanied migrant children. The CRA seeks to enforce reforms in the government’s Unaccompanied Children (UC) program.
On June 7, 2024, a group of U.S. Senators addressed the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Board of Directors to clarify congressional intent regarding the Securing the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Act. The senators involved were Todd Young (R-Ind.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.).
The Indiana Republican Party will hold its 2024 State Convention on Saturday, June 15, 2024, at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. The event will serve to officially nominate candidates for the offices of Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General.
As President Biden revealed new rules regarding Title IX protections in April of 2024, which redefined “sex” to include “gender-identity,” an analysis by Hoosier State Today shows that Indiana is one of 25 states that ban boys from playing in girls’ high school sports.
In advance of the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution, cosponsored by U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.), commemorating this historic operation and expressing gratitude to the U.S. Armed Forces and Allied troops responsible for securing victory in Europe.
U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) have introduced the Allowing Greater Access to Safe and Effective Contraception Act, aimed at promoting access to safe contraception for women and families while ensuring taxpayer dollars are not used to fund abortions.
In 2022, Indiana had $38.6 million in total cash and investment holdings in its public pension funds, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Annual Survey of Public Pensions.
As of May 2024, Indiana experienced a 19.8% increase in prices of goods and services since January 2021, compared to the nationwide trend of a 20.1% increase.