Remember when Florida’s legislature mandated drug-testing for welfare applicants, and writer Carl Hiaasen challenged lawmakers to get tested themselves? Meet the Indiana House, where Republicans are also pushing a measure to require drug screens for welfare recipients.
Last week, Indiana House member Jud McMillin, a Republican, proposed testing people on welfare. Democrats argued that for consistency’s sake, Indiana should drug-test lawmakers, too — why should lawmakers make the poor jump through hoops that they’re not willing to go through themselves? The Republican-controlled chamber amended McMillin’s bill to require that every lawmaker get tested for drugs and alcohol both. In response, McMillin pulled the legislation.
Now he’s back with a watered-down version. Mary Beth Schneider at the Indianapolis Star writes:









