Legislative Session Returns to Statehouse

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) —The full Indiana House returned to the Statehouse on Wednesday after a five-day break, but partisan differences remained over an unemployment insurance tax bill as a March 14 deadline for adjournment loomed.

Democratic House Speaker Patrick Bauer of South Bend met privately with Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels in hopes that he would help broker a compromise on the issue. He said the talk was constructive and mostly friendly, and that Daniels encouraged the parties to keep talking.