INDIANAPOLIS In just a week, lawmakers will be back at the statehouse for a special session, and the price tag for that session as well as the burden it could place on local clerks offices could be steep.

When lawmakers are in session, they are paid for their time and travel expenses, and the length of the special session will ultimately determine the final cost.

"If it takes two weeks or so, it could be 250 to 300 thousand dollars easily, Paul Helmke, a professor at the School of Public & Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, said. If it's something they can do in one day or two days, you know, if they've got this all figured out ahead of time, it might only cost 3 thousand dollars a day or so."

Republicans would like to add to their 7-2 majority in the U.S. House by taking seat

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