>>BRANDON: INSURRECTIONISTS INVADE THE U.S. CAPITOL AS SOME HOOSIER REPUBLICANS BACK THE SAME CAUSE.

MARCH MADNESS IN INDIANA.

PLUS, A POTENTIAL VETO OVERRIDE AND MORE ON INDIANA WEEK IN REVIEW FOR THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 8TH, 2021.

>>BRANDON: THIS WEEK, INDIANA US SENATOR MIKE BRAUN BACKED OFF A PLAN TO OVERTHROW THE RESULTS OF THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AFTER A MOB OF TRUMP SUPPORTERS STORMED THE US CAPITOL.

BUT FOUR HOOSIER REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF THE US HOUSE VOTED TO BLOCK JOE BIDEN FROM BECOMING THE NEXT PRESIDENT.

EARLY WEDNESDAY - AND FIRST ANNOUNCED DAYS EARLIER - BRAUN SAID HE WOULD JOIN SOME GOP COLLEAGUES TO VOTE AGAINST THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE'S RESULTS, CITING UNFOUNDED ALLEGATIONS OF VOTER FRAUD.

THAT PUT THE REPUBLICAN ALONGSIDE THE CAUSE OF MANY OF THOSE WHO VIOLENTLY BROKE INTO THE CAPITOL, SENDING LAWMAKERS AND STAFF INTO LOCKDOWN AND ENDING WITH AT LEAST ONE PERSON DEAD.

REPUBLICAN TODD YOUNG, THE SENIOR HOOSIER SENATOR, ALWAYS SAID HE WOULD NOT OBJECT TO THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE RESULTS.

IN A STATEMENT, YOUNG SAID THAT WHILE HE WISHED THE RESULTS WERE DIFFERENT, HE SWORE AN OATH TO THE CONSTITUTION...AND VOTING AGAINST CERTIFICATION WOULD VIOLATE THAT OATH.

EARLIER IN THE DAY, YOUNG WAS CONFRONTED IN WASHINGTON BY PROTESTERS, URGING HIM TO VOTE AGAINST CERTIFICATION IN A BID TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION.

YOUNG, IN A MOMENT CAPTURED ON TWITTER BY A WASHINGTON POST REPORTER, LOUDLY REFUSED.

>>SEN.

TODD YOUNG (R-IND.

): I TOOK AN OATH UNDER GOD.

UNDER GOD, I TOOK AN OATH!

DO WE STILL TAKE THAT SERIOUSLY IN THIS COUNTRY?

>>BRANDON: INDIANA REPRESENTATIVES JACKIE WALORSKI, JIM BANKS AND JIM BAIRD VOTED TO OBJECT TO PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS IN KEY STATES.

AND REPRESENTATIVE GREG PENCE - VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE'S BROTHER - VOTED TO OBJECT TO PENNSYLVANIA'S ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES.

THE REST OF THE HOOSIER CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION - TWO DEMOCRATS AND THREE REPUBLICANS - VOTED TO CERTIFY THE RESULTS.

WHAT WILL BE THE CONSEQUENCE FOR LAWMAKERS WHO VOTED TO OVERTHROW THE ELECTION?

IT'S THE FIRST QUESTION FOR OUR INDIANA WEEK IN REVIEW PANEL: DEMOCRAT ANN DELANEY REPUBLICAN MIKE O'BRIEN JON SCHWANTES, HOST OF INDIANA LAWMAKERS AND NIKI KELLY, STATEHOUSE REPORTER FOR THE FORT WAYNE JOURNAL GAZETTE.

I'M INDIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING STATEHOUSE REPORTER BRANDON SMITH.

ANN DELANEY, WILL WALORSKI, BANKS, BAIRD AND PENCE'S VOTES HELP THEM WITH THEIR CONSTITUENTS?

>>: I WOULD LIKE TO THINK THAT THERE WILL BE A PRICE NOT JUST THOSE 4, BUT ALSO MIKE BRAUN AND CURTIS HILL AND TODD ROKITA, ALL OF THESE ELECTED OFFICIALS WHO ARE COMPLETELY DISAPPOINTING PEOPLE, THEY REPEATED TRUMPS LIES OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

JOE BIDEN WON THE ELECTION AND TRUMP LOST.

NO FRAUD.

THESE HIGHLY ELECTED OFFICIALS REPEATED THESE LIES FOR POLITICAL GAIN AND UNLEASHED THE FORCE THAT STORMED THE CAPITAL.

DONALD TRUMP FOR FOUR YEARS HAS BEEN AN BOLDING THE RIGHT WING, LETTING THEM CRIME OUT FROM THE ROCKS FOR THE NEO-NAZIS AND HE THEN CALLED TO WASHINGTON AND FIRED THEM UP AND LICKED A MATCH AND SET THEM TO THE CAPITAL AND THOSE BLOOD OF THE DEAD PEOPLE ARE ON THE HANDS OF DONALD TRUMP AND THE REPUBLICANS THAT REPEATED THE BASELESS CLAIMS THAT HE WON THE ELECTION.

YOU LOOK AT THAT AND SAY I UNDERSTAND THEY WERE DOING IT FOR THE SHORT-TERM GOOD BUT IS THAT ALL THERE IS?

THEY DON'T HAVE ANY OBLIGATION TO THE COUNTRY, OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM, TO THE TRUTH?

IF THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE FOR ANY OF THEM THEN THAT IS THE ANSWER.

IT'S ABOUT SHORT-TERM POLITICAL GAIN AND TO HELL WITH DEMOCRACY AND THAT IS DISAPPOINTING.

>>: MIKE O'BRIEN CONNECTED MIKE BRAUN DID HE PUT HIMSELF IN THE WORST POSSIBLE POSITION BY MAKING EVERYONE ANGRY IF YOU WERE ANGRY WITH WHAT HE SAID BEFORE THE INSURRECTION AND IF YOU WERE ANGRY WITH IT AFTER, RIGHT?

>>: TO HIS CREDIT HE ULTIMATELY DID THE RIGHT THING WHEN THERE WAS NO OTHER CHOICE.

I THINK TODD YOUNG HAD IT RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING AND TALKED ABOUT IT FROM THE BEGINNING AND MITT ROMNEY AFTER THE ATTACK ON THE CAPITAL SAID IT BEST.

WE ARE DOING OUR CONSERVATIVE BASE NO FAVORS BY LYING TO THEM AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING IF YOU UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS AT ALL AND HOW IMPORTANT THAT IS TO OUR SYSTEM OF DEMOCRACY AND HOW WE HAVE TO FOLLOW THAT.

YOU CAN'T LIE TO THESE PEOPLE AND MAKE THEM THINK THERE IS SOME OTHER ALTERNATIVE AFTER THEIR POSTS HAVE BEEN CAST AT STATES AND THEY GO TO THIS CERTIFICATION PROCESS AND UP AND THAT SYSTEM THAT'S BEEN IN PLACE FOR 150 YEARS.

WE'VE BEEN DOING IT TO OUR BASE FOR A LONG TIME WHETHER OBAMA CARE AND PROMISING THEM WE WILL REPEAL OBAMA CARE WHATEVER WE PROMISED THEM WE WILL DO THAT WE DON'T BECAUSE WE ARE DISHONEST ABOUT WHAT WE CAN ACTUALLY ACHIEVE AND WHAT ITS RIGHT TO PURSUE.

AND YOU SAW THAT COME TO THE MOST EXTREME HAD ON WEDNESDAY AND THIS IS HORRIFIC AND A SAD OUTCOME FOR THESE PEOPLE THAT THOUGHT -- HONESTLY TO THEMSELVES OR NOT, BUT THEY WERE FIGHTING THE REVOLUTION AND DOING THE RIGHT THING.

>>: NIKI KELLY THEY CALLED FOR BRAUN TO RESIGN -- RESIGN.

IN CASE THERE IS ANYONE WHO DOESN'T IS THERE ANY CHANCE OF THAT HAPPENING?

>>: ABOUT AS MUCH AS THE CHANCE THAT DONALD TRUMP WOULD RESIGN IN THE NEXT 12 DAYS.

THAT WILL NOT HAPPEN AND HE DEFINITELY DID PUT HIMSELF IN A WEIRD SITUATION AND A HIGHER SITUATION THAN BANKS OR OTHERS BECAUSE OF THE FLIP-FLOP.

ALSO HE WAS SO MUCH MORE STRAINED ABOUT IT IN THE WEEKS COMING FORWARD AND THEN CONTRASTING THAT WITH TODD YOUNG THAT SAME DAY IT WORKS AGAINST SENATOR BRAUN.

>>: TO THAT END SENATOR BRAUN IS NOT UP FOR REELECTION SO IS HE LIKELY TO FACE POLITICAL CONSEQUENCE FROM THIS?

>>: NOT AS MUCH AS HE WOULD IF IN THE FACT HE WERE ON THE %-@D HOOSIER VOTERS HE HAD TAKEN WHAT PERHAPS HISTORY WILL TELL US WAS AN EXTREME AND UNFORTUNATE POSITION THE WARNING OF THE CERTIFICATION VOTE, BUT HE PROBABLY FEND OFF THE BULK OF THE DAMAGE BY REVERSING COURSE LATER IN THE DAY.

I WOULD POINT OUT TWO OF HIS FORMER COLLEAGUES IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE TODD HUSTON THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE FROM FISHERS AND RODRICK BRAY THE SENATOR PRO TEM GROWTH SAID HE MADE THE RIGHT DECISION BY BACKING AWAY FROM HIS OPPOSITION AND SETTLED IN THE RIGHT PLACE AND THESE ARE THE TOP REPUBLICANS IN INDIANA AND I SAY FORMER COLLEAGUES BECAUSE AS WE ALL KNOW MIKE BRAUN WAS THE REP FOR THREE YEARS EARLIER THIS PAST DECADE.

AS FAR AS REPERCUSSIONS MORE BROADLY FOR BANKS AND BARED, IF THEY WERE IN COMPETITIVE DISTRICTS THERE MIGHT BE NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES BUT THIS IS AN ARGUMENT AGAINST GERRYMANDERING BECAUSE LET'S NOT USE FIFTH AVENUE IN NEW YORK LET'S SAY IN FORT WAYNE OR GREENCASTLE IN THE CASE OF THESE THREE THEY COULD WALK OUT ON MAIN STREET AND SHOOT SOMEBODY BUT STILL WIN THE ELECTION TO BORROW A PHRASE MADE POPULAR BY THE PRESIDENT THERE'S NO COMPETITION IN THOSE DISTRICTS SO WHAT IS THE SAD REALITY.

[OVERLAPPING SPEAKERS] >>>AFTER CANCELLING MARCH MADNESS LAST YEAR DUE TO COVID-19, THE NCAA WILL HOLD ALL THE MEN'S TOURNAMENT GAMES IN INDIANA THIS SPRING.

INDIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING'S SAMANTHA HORTON REPORTS THE ORGANIZATION SAYS IT WORKED WITH STATE AND LOCAL OFFICIALS TO DETERMINE THE SAFEST POSSIBLE PLAN.

>>INDIANAPOLIS WAS ALREADY SET TO HOST THIS YEAR'S FINAL FOUR IN THE MEN'S DIVISION I BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT.

WITH THE ONGOING PANDEMIC, THE NCAA DECIDED ONE GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION WOULD BE USED TO CREATE A BUBBLE SIMILAR TO WHAT MANY PROFESSIONAL LEAGUES HAVE DONE TO REDUCE THE POTENTIAL SPREAD OF COVID-19.

DAN GAVITT WITH THE NCAA SAYS CENTRAL INDIANA WAS ABLE TO MEET THE NECESSARY CRITERIA FROM GAME AND PRACTICE SITES TO LODGING AND FOOD OPTIONS.

>>DAN GAVITT: THE CHALLENGES OF HAVING A LARGE-SCALE EVENT THAT REQUIRES TRAVEL IS ALMOST INFEASIBLE DURING THE PANDEMIC...SO HAVING THAT SINGLE GEOGRAPHIC AREA WAS REALLY IMPORTANT TO HAVING THIS DONE IN A SAFE AND RESPONSIBLE AND SUCCESSFUL WAY.

>>SO FAR OFFICIALS HAVE YET TO BE AT THE GAMES, BUT ARE ABLE T- PLANNING TO ALLOW FAMILY OF ATHLETES ON THE 68 TEAMS TO ATTEND.

MIKE O'BRIEN, THE ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF THIS ARE OBVIOUS, SIGNIFICANT, AND EXCITING.

PARTICULARLY FOR INDUSTRIES THAT HAVE STRUGGLED MORE THAN MOST DURING THE PANDEMIC.

BUT IS THERE ANY WORRY ABOUT THE HEALTH IMPACT?

-- NOT JUST DIVISION I, DIVISION TWO AND THREE IN FORT WAYNE AND EVANSVILLE.

THAT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE NOT FROM INDIANA COMING INTO INDIANA ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

ANY WORRY ABOUT THE HEALTH IMPACT?

>>: SURE THERE IS WHICH IS WHY SO MUCH THOUGHT AND PLANNING HAS GONE INTO IT.

THIS PROCESS WE ARE EMBARKING UPON THIS PLANNING PROCESS HAS TWO ADVANTAGES.

A LOT OF SUCCESS WITH THIS WITH PROFESSIONAL LEAGUES.

THE NBA IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL HAD TO MAKE THIS UP AS THEY WENT IN THE NCAA DOESN'T HAVE TO USE THAT THEY CAN LOOK TO BEST PRACTICES TO DRAW FROM.

INDIANAPOLIS BECAUSE OF -- THEY SAID THIS IN THE DECISION TO AWARD THIS TO INDIANAPOLIS, IT'S COMPACT, IT IS CONTAINED.

THROUGH THE CONVENTION CENTER AND THE CONNECTIVITY WE HAVE IN FACILITIES IN DOWNTOWN AND IN FORT WAYNE AND YOU LOOK TO THE SMALLER CITIES THAT HAVE EMULATED OUR MODEL SO I THINK IT WILL BE SUCCESSFUL.

>>: ANN DELANEY, HOW IMPORTANT WAS GETTING THIS LIKE WE SAID FOR THE INDUSTRY'S THE HOSPITALITY IN PARTICULAR THAT HAS BEEN DECIMATED BY THE PANDEMIC.

>>: IT'S HUGE.

MIKE IS RIGHT.

THE IMPACT ON THIS IS ENORMOUS ESPECIALLY IN DOWNTOWN INDIANAPOLIS WHICH BETWEEN THE RIOTS AND COVID HAS BEEN SUFFERING BADLY, SO I THINK IT'S WONDERFUL.

I ASSUME THEY WILL TAKE ALL PRECAUTIONS AND WE ARE TALKING ABOUT MARCH.

MAYBE ONCE WE GET TRUMP OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE WE WILL HAVE VACCINES MORE READILY AVAILABLE TO PEOPLE, MAYBE ALL THE PLAYERS AND COACHES AND FAMILY MEMBERS COULD BE INOCULATED BEFORE THEY EVEN COME HERE AND THERE ARE LOTS OF THINGS THAT COULD HAPPEN BETWEEN NOW AND THEN TO ENSURE MORE SAFETY.

OBVIOUSLY IT HAS SOME RISK, BUT IT SEEMS TO ME THE ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF BRINGING A THOUSAND PEOPLE SCATTERED AROUND THE STATE IN FOR THIS WILL MAKE AN ENORMOUS DIFFERENCE TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY.

>>: NIKI KELLY, NOT TO SUGGEST THERE IS A REASON NOT TO DO IT, BUT DO WE HAVE ANY SENSE OF HOW THIS MIGHT IMPACT THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION?

THESE WILL BE A LOT OF HOTEL ROOMS IN DOWNTOWN INDIANAPOLIS THAT ARE SUFFERING AND ARE ENOUGH BY THE NCAA WHICH IS GREAT, BUT LAWMAKERS NEED A PLACE TO STAY.

>>: , I MEAN, THE HOTELS ARE PRACTICALLY EMPTY RIGHT NOW AND YOU REALLY ONLY NEED AT MOST 150 HOTEL ROOMS IF EVERYONE NEEDED ONE SO I THINK IT WILL BE FINE FOR LAWMAKERS.

PLENTY OF PLACES FOR THEM TO STAY DURING THIS TIME AND I DON'T THINK THE LEADERS ARE EXPECTING MAJOR CHANGES.

THAT MIGHT CHANGE A LITTLE ON THE FINAL WEEKEND IF THEY ALLOW FANS AND THAT MIGHT GET LARGER, BUT I THINK IT WILL BE FINE.

>>: JON SCHWANTES, THE IMPACT IN THE SHORT TERM TO ALL THESE INDUSTRIES AND THESE BUSINESSES DESPERATE NEED OF HELP IS OBVIOUS.

IF INDIANAPOLIS AND INDIANA LARGELY PULLS THIS OFF SUCCESSFULLY, HOW LARGE IS THIS FOR THE STATE GOING FORWARD YEARS INTO THE FUTURE TO SET THIS EXAMPLE?

>>: IT IS CONFIRMATION OF WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW AND WHAT PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THIS INDUSTRY OR IN THE SPORTS WORLD ALREADY KNOW AND THAT IS CENTRAL INDIANA, INDIANAPOLIS, THEY KNOW HOW TO DO THIS AND DO IT RIGHT.

NO SAIDEEP PROBABLY IF YOU PUT EVEN OTHER COMMUNITIES UNDER A LIGHT AND WITH A GOOD DOSE OF TRUTH SERUM WOULD PROBABLY ACKNOWLEDGE INDIANAPOLIS IS THE MODEL AND ITS FOR SOME OF THE REASONS MENTIONED ALREADY.

IT'S COMPACT, IT'S CONNECTED, YOU CAN GET FROM A TO B QUICKLY WITHOUT THE GRIDLOCK YOU MIGHT FIND IN THE EAST OR WEST COAST AND GUESS WHAT HOSPITALITY IS A REAL THING AND PEOPLE ENJOY COMING HERE.

I WOULD AGREE WITH YOU ABOUT THE LEGISLATIVE JOURNEY.

THINK ABOUT THE BIG TEN TOURNAMENT.

IT'S ONLY 150 LAWMAKERS AND WE WANT TO HAVE AS MANY FANS AS YOU HAVE FOR FINAL FOUR BUT THE THOUGHT IS FAMILY MEMBERS OF THE 68 TEAMS WOULD BE HERE AT SOME POINT SO IT WON'T PROBABLY FORCE THE SESSION TO ADJOURN TEMPORARILY FOR THREE WEEKS BUT I COULD SEE AS NIKI SUGGESTED THE FINAL WEEKEND IF NOT A LITTLE BIT BEFORE.

>>>TIME NOW FOR VIEWER FEEDBACK.

EACH WEEK WE POSE AN UNSCIENTIFIC, ONLINE POLL QUESTION IN CONJUNCTION WITH OUR ICEMILLER E-MAIL AND TEXT ALERTS.

THIS WEEK'S QUESTION: ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT NEGATIVE HEALTH CONSEQUENCES FROM THE ENTIRE NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT COMING TO INDIANA THIS SPRING?

A.

YES B.

NO LAST WEEK'S QUESTION: WILL THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ENACT RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE TEACHER COMPENSATION COMMISSION?

6 PERCENT SAY MOST OF THEM, 23 PERCENT SAY SOME, 30 TO SAY A FEW OF THEM AND 39 PERCENT SAY NO THEY WON'T.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO TAKE PART IN THE POLL GO TO WFYI.ORG/IWIR AND LOOK FOR THE POLL.

>>>HOUSING ADVOCATES URGED INDIANA LAWMAKERS THIS WEEK NOT TO OVERRIDE THE GOVERNOR'S 2020 VETO OF A BILL DEALING WITH TENANT-LANDLORD RELATIONS.

WFYI'S JILL SHERIDAN REPORTS ON THE MOVE THAT COULD LIMIT REGULATIONS ON LANDLORDS.

>>JILL: LAST YEAR'S LEGISLATION RESTRICTED LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FROM ENACTING MEASURES TO INCREASE RENTER RIGHTS AND PENALIZE LANDLORDS.

IT CAME TACKED ONTO AN UNRELATED BILL NEAR THE END OF SESSION AND AFTER INDIANAPOLIS OFFICIALS PASSED A COMPREHENSIVE SET OF PROPOSALS TO ADDRESS HIGH EVICTION RATES.

THEN THE PANDEMIC HIT, AND GOVERNOR ERIC HOLCOMB VETOED THE NEW LAW TO PROTECT THE INCREASING NUMBER OF PEOPLE LOSING INCOME.

JOHN BONER COMMUNITY CENTER CEO JAMES TAYLOR SAYS THE VETO PROTECTED MANY OF HIS CLIENTS.

>>JAMES TAYLOR: THESE ARE HARDWORKING HOOSIERS, THESE ARE RESPONSIBLE HOOSIERS THAT HAD THEIR LIVELIHOOD IMPACTED, THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN.

>>JILL: THE COALITION SAYS THE LAW COULD RESULT IN INCREASED EVICTIONS AND HOMELESSNESS.

STATE LAWMAKERS CAN OVERRIDE A VETO WITH A SIMPLE MAJORITY VOTE IN BOTH CHAMBERS.

>>BRANDON: JON SCHWANTES, WE TALKED ABOUT HOW BAD THIS BILL LOOKED LAST YEAR AS IT COINCIDED WITH THE START OF THE PANDEMIC.

WOULD OVERRIDING HOLCOMB'S VETO LOOK ANY BETTER NOW?

>>: MY THOUGHT IS THAT WOULD LOOK A WHOLE LOT WORSE AND THE REASON I SAY THAT IS BEFORE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORTED THIS MEASURE WERE NOT ARMED WITH THE ENLIGHTENMENT THAT WAS FORCED UPON US LET'S SAY BY THE PANDEMIC.

NOW THEY KNOW, THEY GET IT.

THEY'VE SEEN THE PRESSURES THAT HAVE BEEN PLACED ON FAMILIES SO TO SUPPORT THIS NOW WOULD BE REALLY BAD POLITICS AND REALLY, REALLY BAD OPTICS BECAUSE KEEP IN MIND THIS IS NOT SOME GET OUT OF JAIL CARD FREE THAT GIVES EVERY TENANT THE ABILITY TO THUMB THEIR NOSES AT LANDLORD INCLUDING HARD-WORKING LANDLORDS WHO ARE SUFFERING JUST AS MUCH AS THE TENANTS BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC.

WHAT IT DOES IS SAY LOCAL COMMUNITIES WITH REPUBLICANS SAY THEY WANT TO DIVERT TO MOST OFTEN HAVE THE ABILITY TO PASS THESE REGULATIONS.

IT'S NOT ABOUT THE REGULATION IT'S ABOUT THE ABILITY OF LOCALS TO PASS IT SO IT SEEMS HORRIBLE OPTIS.

>>: WHAT HAVE WE HEARD FROM LEADERS ABOUT THE CHANCE OF THE VETO OVERRIDE.

HARDLY ANYTHING.

ALL THEY'VE SAID IS THEY WILL TALK ABOUT IT IN CAUCUS.

THEY ARE NOT TIPPING THEIR HAND ON THAT AND I AGREE WITH JON THERE'S NO WAY TO GET AWAY FROM THE PERCEPTION OF THIS WHICH IS ONCE YOU ARE PAST THE WEIRD WAY IT BECAME THE LAW WITH VERY LITTLE NOTICE AND PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT, IT WILL LOOK LIKE WHAT IT IS WHICH IS REPUBLICANS PROTECTING BUSINESS LANDLORDS AND NONCITIZENS WHO ARE STRUGGLING RIGHT NOW.

>>: ANN DELANEY IS IT LIKELY THERE WILL BE AN OVERRIDE OF THE GOVERNOR'S VETO.

>>: NOT IF THEY HAVE ANY SENSE.

THERE IS REALLY NO MOTIVATION BEHIND THAT THAT CAN BE JUSTIFIED IN THE REALM OF PUBLIC OPINION.

AND THEY GIVE LIP SERVICE TO THE NOTION LOCALS ARE AWARE OF THE BEST DECISIONS MADE EXCEPT IF THEY DON'T LIKE WHAT THE DECISIONS ARE.

LEAVE THIS ALONE.

IF THERE WAS EVER A GOOD TIME.

>>: MIKE O'BRIEN SAME QUESTION WHAT IS THE CHANCES THE VETO IS OVERWRITTEN?

>>: THERE'S NO DISTINCTION BEING MADE ON WHAT THIS WAS AND TO PREVENT EVICTIONS SO THIS IS WHAT TENANT RIGHTS ARE AND WHAT LANDLORD WRITES ARE.

BUT, THERE'S NEVER BEEN A MORE IMPORTANT TIME FOR MAYORS TO BE ENGAGED AND UNDERSTAND WHAT THE NEEDS ARE AND THE BALANCE OF THE RISK OF EVICTION AND LANDLORD NOT TO BEING ABLE TO SUPPORT THESE PROPERTIES.

THESE ARE NOT BILLIONAIRE CONGLOMERATES THEY ARE LOCAL INVESTORS AND I THINK IT'S MORE APPROPRIATE THAT LOCALS UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON IN THEIR COMMUNITY AND HAVE THE TOOLS TO ADDRESS IT.

>>>INDIANA HOUSE REPUBLICANS PLAN TO MAKE A LOT OF ONE-TIME INVESTMENTS IN THE 2021 SESSION TO ADDRESS THEIR TOP LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES.

SPENDING ONE-TIME MONEY - AS OPPOSED TO BUILDING ONGOING EXPENSES INTO THE NEW STATE BUDGET - IS A RESULT OF PROJECTED TIGHTER REVENUES DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

MANY OF THE HOUSE GOP'S TOP PRIORITIES STEM FROM NEEDS THAT EITHER AROSE OR WERE INTENSIFIED OVER THE LAST YEAR.

THAT INCLUDES MONEY TO EXPAND RURAL BROADBAND, A ONE-TIME GRANT TO HELP COMBAT CHILDREN'S LEARNING LOSS FROM THE PANDEMIC AND FUNDING FOR LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENTS TO BUY BODY CAMERAS.

SPEAKER TODD HUSTON SAYS HOUSE REPUBLICANS ALSO WANT TO PUT MORE MONEY INTO A SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAM CREATED BY FEDERAL COVID WILL SOON RUN OUT.

>>SPEAKER TODD HUSTON (R-FISHERS): BUILD A BRIDGE FOR OUR SMALL BUSINESS PARTNERS TO GET TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS.

THERE IS A LIGHT AT THE END OF THIS TUNNEL.

I THINK, HOPEFULLY, IT'S SOONER RATHER THAN LATER.

>>BRANDON: THE HOUSE GOP AGENDA ALSO INVOLVES SOME POLICE REFORM.

THAT INCLUDES FULL EMPLOYMENT RECORD SHARING BETWEEN DEPARTMENTS - IN AN EFFORT TO IDENTIFY BAD COPS - AND REQUIRED DE-ESCALATION TRAINING FOR ALL OFFICERS.

NIKI KELLY, AFTER LAST MONTH'S REVENUE FORECAST, DOES THE HOUSE GOP STRATEGY HERE MAKE SENSE TO YOU?

>>: IT'S A SMART MOVE ESSENTIALLY WHAT HAPPENS IS WHEN THE ECONOMY CRATERED OUT THEY SAVED A LOT OF MONEY AND MADE SOME CUTS TO THE AGENCIES AND THE ECONOMY CAME BACK QUICKER THAN THEY THOUGHT SO THEY HAD A LARGER SURPLUS THAN EVER EXPECTED SO THE THOUGHT IS LET'S USE THIS IN TARGETED AREAS ONE-TIME EXPENDITURES SO WE DON'T BUILD THE BUDGET TO FAST SO I THINK IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE IF THEIR PRIORITIES MATCH UP WITH THE GOVERNORS IN TERMS OF THAT.

>>: GOVERNORS HOLCOMB BUDGET PROPOSAL COMES OUT NEXT WEEK AND WE GET THE HOUSE PROPOSAL NEXT MONTH BUT JON SCHWANTES LOOKING AT THIS AND ALL THIS MONEY, IS IT BETTER THAN A LOT OF US WERE BRACING FOR THROUGHOUT THE PANDEMIC?

>>: I THINK SO JUST AS THE REVENUE FORECAST LAST MONTH WAS BETTER THAN A LOT OF US THOUGHT IT WOULD BE.

FOR PEOPLE ON THE RECEIVING END OF THESE DOLLARS TO BE FLIPPANT ONE-TIME APPROPRIATION IS BETTER THAN NO APPROPRIATION, WHICH IS WHAT PEOPLE WERE EXPECTING BECAUSE OF THE NEEDS CREATED AND SITUATED AND UNDERSCORED BY THE PANDEMIC LIKE THE LACK OF BROADBAND CONNECTIVITY ACROSS THE STATE THERE ARE SOME THINGS ONE TIME DOLLARS CAN DO TO HELP THE SITUATION.

>>> SENATE DEMOCRATS' 2021 LEGISLATIVE AGENDA, UNVEILED THIS WEEK, IS FOCUSED ON ISSUES THAT THEY SAY THE PANDEMIC SHOWED TO BE INCREDIBLY URGENT.

THAT INCLUDES RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE, POLICE REFORM AND EXPANDING VOTE-BY-MAIL.

INDIANA HASN'T RAISED ITS MINIMUM WAGE SINCE 2009.

DEMOCRATS, LED BY MINORITY LEADER GREG TAYLOR, SAY THAT'S DESPITE A 20 PERCENT INCREASE IN THE COST OF LIVING.

>>SEN.

GREG TAYLOR (D-INDIANAPOLIS): OUR SOCIETY RELIES ON MINIMUM WAGE WORKERS.

AND YET OUR STATE REFUSED TO PAY ALL HOOSIERS A LIVING WAGE.

>>BRANDON: SENATOR EDDIE MELTON SAID 2020 ALSO FURTHER REVEALED AN URGENT NEED FOR POLICE REFORM.

SENATE AND HOUSE DEMOCRATS ARE BACKING A BROAD AGENDA UNVEILED LAST YEAR BY THE INDIANA BLACK LEGISLATIVE CAUCUS, INCLUDING BANS ON NO-KNOCK WARRANTS AND CHOKEHOLDS BY POLICE.

REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS UNVEIL A PROPOSAL ON THE ISSUE - BUT MELTON SAYS GOVERNOR ERIC HOLCOMB NEEDS TO GET INVOLVED.

WHILE HOLCOMB SAID LAST YEAR HE'LL LOOK TO REVISE TRAINING AT THE STATE POLICE ACADEMY, FURTHER POLICE REFORM IS NOT PART OF HIS LEGISLATIVE AGENDA.

MIKE O'BRIEN, DOES THE PANDEMIC CHANGE THE LIKELIHOOD OF PASSING A MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE IN THE INDIANA GENERAL ASSEMBLY?

>>: IT DOESN'T IMPROVE IT, BUT IT SHOULD.

MY OPINION HAS ALWAYS BEEN IF THE GOVERNOR WILL GET IN THE BUSINESS OF SET THE MINIMUM WAGE IT HAS THE OBLIGATION TO REVISIT IT OR JUST GET OUT OF THE BUSINESS AND SAY THE MARKET WILL SET IT.

AND THE JOB MARKET HAS BEEN SO COMPETITIVE.

>>: ANN DELANEY SENATOR MELTON TALKED ABOUT POLICE REFORM AND THE REPUBLICAN AGENDA INCLUDE SOME ITEMS ON POLICE REFORM AND SOME THINGS THE BLACK CAUCUS AGENDA INCLUDES, BUT NOT ALL OF IT.

HOW IMPORTANT IS GOV.

HOLCOMB'S INVOLVEMENT IN THAT SESSION?

>>: HE SAYS HE'S NOT MAKING IT A PRIORITY BUT HE OUGHT TO.

WE DEMONSTRATED IT HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED ACROSS THE COUNTRY WE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER THE LAW AND HE'S SUPPOSED TO LEAD THE STATE AND STEP UP AND MAKE CONCRETE PROPOSALS.

THE REPRESENTATIVES ARE WORKING ON A BILL THAT HAS MORE THAN WHAT WAS OUTLINED IN THE REPUBLICAN LIST AND THAT'S A POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT.

WE NEED -- WE WILL NOT GET EVERYTHING THE BLACK CAUCUS MONTHS BUT THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS IN THERE THAT NEED TO BE DONE NOW AND THE GOVERNOR NEEDS TO STAND UP AND SAY THIS IS A PRIORITY BECAUSE HE'S CONCERNED THERE WILL BE EQUAL JUSTICE IN INDIANA.

>>>FINALLY, WITH 2021 UNDERWAY, NOW IS THE TIME WHEN PEOPLE FOCUS ON NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS.

ANN DELANEY, WHAT SHOULD INDIANA'S NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION BE?

>>: I THINK WE SHOULD MAKE A RESOLUTION TO STOPPING THE MISSISSIPPI OF THE NORTH AND START PAYING OUR TEACHERS AND ALLOW VOTERS TO VOTE AS EASILY AS POSSIBLE AND DEAL WITH EQUAL JUSTICE ON THE LAW.

IT'S ABOUT TIME WE BECAME MORE PROGRESSIVE THAN WE HAVE SHOWN SO FAR.

>>: MIKE O'BRIEN QUICKLY WHAT YOUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION FOR INDIANA?

>>: WE WILL COME OUT OF THIS PANDEMIC WELL POSITIONED WITH PEER CITIES TO TAKE OFF ECONOMICALLY AND MAKE QUICKER GOVERNING.

>>>THAT'S INDIANA WEEK IN REVIEW FOR THIS WEEK.

OUR PANEL IS DEMOCRAT ANN DELANEY REPUBLICAN MIKE O'BRIEN JON SCHWANTES OF INDIANA LAWMAKERS AND NIKI KELLY OF THE FORT WAYNE JOURNAL GAZETTE.

IF YOU'D LIKE A PODCAST OF THIS PROGRAM YOU CAN FIND IT AT WFYI.ORG/IWIR OR STARTING MONDAY YOU CAN STREAM IT OR GET IT ON DEMAND FROM XFINITY AND ON THE WFYI APP.

I'M BRANDON SMITH OF INDIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING.

STAY SAFE, STAY HEALTHY, PLEASE WEAR A MASK.

JOIN US NEXT TIME BECAUSE A LOT CAN HAPPEN IN AN INDIANA WEEK.