We want our two senators in Washington to have to come back to the Indiana State Legislature and give public account, under questioning, for the way they vote in the U.S. Senate.
Well said.
Unlike after 1913, the pre-17A Senate was deliberative. The Senate that delivered the 13 - 15th Amendments.
Absent a deliberative Senate in 2009 Congress passed Obamacare. A few senior Congressmen, Senators, and various interest groups within and without government quietly slapped together a miserable law designed not to provide healthcare, but rather to destroy the middleclass. Remember Jonathan Gruber?
The democrats did not hold committee hearings. The deliberative process had collapsed from the days of our Framers. Members were forced to quickly vote on it without understanding what the thousands of pages contained. Lack of deliberation was immediately evident when Obama regularly modified its provisions.
And nowhere did the law contain the word, “tax.” To render Obamacare constitutional, Scotus changed an unconstitutional penalty into constitutional tax.