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To: Responsibility2nd

Not today, and not September of this or any other year, so long as the filibuster rule is not abandoned altogether.

The Senate ceased to have a justification of any kind for a filibuster with the ratification of Seventeenth Amendment, which provided for the popular election of Senators. Senators USED to be appointed by the state legislatures.


14 posted on 05/02/2017 10:12:14 AM PDT by alloysteel (Why does anyone vote Republican, anyway? The Democrats STILL impose their will.)
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To: alloysteel

REPEAL THE 17TH AMENDMENT!!!!!


42 posted on 05/02/2017 11:34:06 AM PDT by nanook (Thomas Jefferson was right.)
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