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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Questions about President Barack Obama’s birth certificate continue to make news as Sarah Palin, Donald Trump and others question the his citizenship. Now the so-called “birther” issue will be the subject of a vote at the Indiana Statehouse, and Donald Trump has weighed in on what’s going on here. A committee in the state Senate will vote Monday on a birther resolution.

State Sen. Mike Delph (R-Carmel) is a proponent of the birther movement. He wants proof pf American citizenship required for candidates for president, and he points to his pocket copy of the Constitution for support.

The continuing attention to the issue causes former state Democratic Chairman Kip Tew to react emotionally.

“You can go online and see Barack Obama’s birth certificate,” Tew said. “It’s the most insane nonsense I’ve been involved in in politics.”

An online search will turn up multiple sources with copies of the certificate of live birth for Obama from Hawaii, where he was born on Aug. 4, 1961.

But these modern, computer-generated copies, issued by the state of Hawaii after the initial fervor, are not enough for Donald Trump.

“If he has a birth certificate, he should release it,” Trump told an interviewer, “but don’t tell me about some long-form certificate of live birth, because it’s a much lower standard.”

Trump returned phone call from Delph to express support for the resolution Delph sponsored.

“I had about a three-minute conversation with him yesterday on the phone,” Delph said. “He’s certainly supportive of this effort here in Indiana.”

Delph’s resolution amounts to a suggestion that lawmakers study the issue over the summer and then pass a law next year that would require presidential candidates to produce a birth certificate. Yet Delph insists this is about the constitution, and not the Obama specifically.

When asked, whether he had doubts about Obama’s status as a natural born citizen, Delph said: “That’s not the issue in my mind. I don’t.”

But he’ll never convince Tew that the issue isn’t about Obama.

“We’ve entered the realm of complete nuts, is what we’ve done,” Tew said.

Yet even Tew admits the issue is a political problem for the president, because surveys have shown nearly half the Republicans in the country question his citizenship.

Democrats in the state Senate boycotted a hearing on the birther resolution earlier this week. It remains to be seen if they will show up for Monday’s vote.