Senate leaves steel options open

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INDIANAPOLIS--The Indiana Senate opposed an amendment to Senate Bill 382 Tuesday to only use Northwest Indiana’s steel companies to construct the proposed Illinois-Indiana toll road.

The amendment was authored by Sen. Karen Tallian, D-Portage.   It failed, 32-17.

Tallian said she supported the amendment on behalf of her location in Northwest Indiana. Northwest Indiana native, Sen. Ed Charbonneau, R-Valparaiso, opposed the amendment. 

“To start off a project by giving this steel preference isn’t the way to start off a partnership with Illinois,” said Charbonneau.

In 2006, a motion to have Indiana steel used ont Interstate 69 in Indiana was defeated.