The long-forgotten 17th Amendment — the one that gave us direct election of senators — has suddenly moved to center stage in the new debate over constitutional first principles fostered by the Tea ...

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 ...

A group of Republican representatives is pushing to repeal the 17th Amendment, which gave voters the right to elect their own senators, amid a feud between House and Senate Republicans over the SAVE ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Republican proposal introduced in the House would repeal the 17th Amendment and end voters' constitutional right to elect U.S.

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 ...

I write not on the political aspects of the arguments for or against repealing the 17th Amendment, but rather on the merits of a repeal. Article 1, Section 3 of the Constitution dictated that two ...