February 20, 2013

Six Georgia Lawmakers Want To Take Away Voters’ Ability To Elect Their Own Senators

Six Georgia Lawmakers Want To Take Away Voters’ Ability To Elect Their Own Senators: The Seventeenth Amendment, which guarantees that voters will elect their own U.S. senators — rather than having those senators chosen for them by the state legislature — is strangely unpopular in Tea Party circles. Both Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) believe their own elections to the United States Senate should be [...]/p