WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate leaders said Tuesday the chamber will vote Thursday on U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy’s health care legislation, calling it the Republican response to a Democratic proposal to extend tax credits that 24.3 million working Americans and small businesses – nearly 300,000 of whom live in Louisiana – use to buy health insurance.

Redistricting will face a final vote in the Indiana Senate this week, possibly ending a months-long saga wracked by violent threats, primary challengers and an unusual amount of national political pressure.

State senators in Indiana advanced a proposal to redraw the state’s congressional boundaries Monday, although it is not clear if it has the support to become law in a final vote expected later

Independent Sen. Angus King has indicated that he supports the simple 3-year extension proposed by Democrats. But Republican Sen. Susan Collins is co-sponsoring a 2-year extension that would also impose income caps and require ACA users to pay at least $25 a month.

Indiana senators advanced a controversial congressional redistricting bill in a 6-3 vote Monday—but multiple Republican lawmakers signaled they remain open to voting no when it reaches the chamber floor.

Indiana’s redistricting bill advanced out of the Senate Elections Committee Monday evening in a 6-3 vote, with one Republican committee member voting against the bill.

After hours of testimony, Indiana's redistricting bill passed the Senate elections committee, its first hurdle.

Indiana's controversial redistricting bill advanced out of the state Senate Committee on Elections in a 6-3 vote.

But neither bill is expected to have the support it needs to advance, leaving in the balance tens of millions of Americans who could see their health care costs soar at the start of the new year. Thune's announcement on Tuesday marked the first time Senate Republicans appeared to coalesce around a single health care plan to respond to the anticipated price hikes Americans currently receiving ACA tax credits will face in 2026.