Indiana House Republicans pick Ben Smaltz as new speaker after losing supermajority

Indiana House Republicans pick Ben Smaltz as new speaker after losing supermajority

The number that defined Indiana politics for fourteen years was 70. The Republican majority in the Indiana House is expected to fall to 54 seats. House Republicans, meeting behind closed doors at the Statehouse, picked Rep. Ben Smaltz of Auburn as their next speaker, handing him a chamber where the GOP supermajority that let them … Read more