A group of House Republicans is seeking to repeal the 17th Amendment as tensions with Senate Republicans deepen over the stalled SAVE America Act. While reports suggest the repeal proposal, introduced ...

Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry earlier this week supported a resolution that would repeal the 17th Amendment and strip American voters of their right to elect U.S. Senators. The joint resolution, ...

Washington State’s Republican Party approved a resolution calling for the repeal of the 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which allowed for the direct election of U.S. Senators. The ...

Prior to the passage of the 17th Amendment, U.S. Senators were chosen by state legislatures, not by voters at the ballot box. Conservatives have been debating the merits of the 17th Amendment for a ...

The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established the direct election of United States senators in each state. The amendment supersedes Article I, Section 3, ...

Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, is introducing a joint resolution Thursday to repeal the 17th Amendment, according to the Washington Examiner. which obtained a copy of the resolution. The proposal comes as ...

So U.S. Rep. Scott Perry and others are trying to get rid of the 17th Amendment so that state legislators can pick their own people to send to the U.S. Senate. They want to stop allowing voters to ...

Members of Congress are pushing to repeal the 17th Amendment and elect senators the way the Constitution originally decreed. Nine GOP House lawmakers have co-signed a joint resolution introduced by ...

Last month, eight members of the Freedom Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced House Joint Resolution 198 (HJR198). Congressional approval of this resolution is the first step in a ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! 17th Amendment U.S. Senate Historian Emeritus Richard Baker discussed the 17th amendment and the effect that the direct election of Senators had on ...

A group of House Republicans is seeking to repeal the 17th Amendment as tensions with Senate Republicans deepen over the stalled SAVE America Act. While reports suggest the repeal proposal, introduced ...