[sirchtruth]

Yeah, but that’s not what’s important. It’s WHO you want to replace this liberal with that will make the difference...

[Freds2nd]

Menendez’ first job out of law school was bag man for the Hudson county boss. He has worked his way up, now he is the boss. The Senate is his part time job.

[j.argese]

Well, we sort of had a moral victory in NJ. Everyone expected Lautenberg to resign so Corzine could appoint himself and that never happened. If we could only get the governor to reduce social spending and get those on it to emigrate to NY or Mass we would be in business.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

More kindling for the fire?

Senator Prodded Fed to Aid Ailing Bank From Home State

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2447413/posts

[ricks_place]

This Report for Congress Updated March 20, 2003 addressed issues of recall but recall was never before the US Supreme Court for consideration. While the US Constitution lays out the terms for Senators and Representatives it does not address recall directly. However The US Constitution does address election and impeachment.

• "...two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years" Amendment 17 - Senators Elected by Popular Vote.
• "The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments." Section 3 - The Senate.

The basis for a recall election appears weak.

Recall of Legislators and the Removal of Members of Congress from Office

The term of office established in the United States Constitution for a United States Senator is six years, and for a Representative in Congress, two years.1 Under the Constitution and congressional practice, Members of Congress may have their services ended prior to the normal expiration of their constitutional terms of office by their resignation, death, or by action of the House of Congress in which they sit by way of an “expulsion,”2 or by a finding that a subsequent public office accepted by a Member is “incompatible” with congressional office (and that the Member has thus vacated his seat in Congress).3 Although considered in the Federal Convention of 1787, there was never a provision adopted in the Constitution for the “recall” of Members of Congress, and thus no Member has ever been recalled in the history of the United States. Individual States have never had the authority, and thus could not have “reserved” such power, to unilaterally change the terms and conditions of service of federal officials agreed upon and created in the federal Constitution.4 This report discusses briefly the manner in which a Member of Congress may be removed from office by “expulsion,” and then examines the issue of recall of legislators.