Posted on 07/30/2017 1:30:46 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) on Friday called for the repeal of the 17th Amendment and the return to senators selected by state legislatures after the Senate GOP's effort to repeal and replace ObamaCare died in a late-night vote.
The 17th Amendment was ratified in 1913 and established the popular election of senators. Previously, senators were elected by state legislatures.
@GovMikeHuckabee Time to repeal 17th Amendment. Founders had it right-Senators chosen by state legislatures. Will work for their states and respect 10th amid
The Senate's "skinny repeal" of ObamaCare failed late Thursday night by a vote of 51-49. The bill would have repealed major parts of the Affordable Care Act, including the individual mandate and would have defunded Planned Parenthood. The vote failed after three Republican senators, John McCain (Ariz.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Susan Collins (Maine), defected and voted against the bill.
“We must now return to the correct way of legislating and send the bill back to committee, hold hearings, receive input from both sides of the aisle, heed the recommendations of nation’s governors, and produce a bill that finally delivers affordable health care for the American people,” McCain said in a statement after the vote.
With the latest vote's failure, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said said "it is time to move on" for the GOP.
"What we tried to accomplish for the American people was the right thing for the country," McConnell said early Friday. "I think the American people are going to regret that we couldn't find another way forward."
Huckabee slammed on Twitter the Republicans who sunk the repeal plans:
@GovMikeHuckabee CNN reports Dems will give Lifetime Achievement Award to Murkowski Collins and McCain. Schumer so happy he cried.
Hmm... ok but I got that out of a book on the Progressive movement. I will look for the title.
This is a great idea. Let’s implement term limits at the same time. Two birds, one stone.
I recommend that you read this:
“Ulysses at the Mast: Democracy, Federalism,
and the Sirens’ Song of the Seventeenth Amendment”
by Jay S. Bybee of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Here is a link to the 74 page pdf file:
http://scholars.law.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1365&context=facpub
Still angry about that whole slavery thing huh?
Why have U.S. Senators at all?
Just let the state governors represent whatever the senators duties were/are. Senators are supposed to represent the wishes of the states they represent, so, why not have real representation of how each state feels? Senators have been going their own way, and are not representing the wishes of their respective states.
Great idea
“The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I’ve just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.”
Getting the another branch of government out of the hands of professional spin doctors is definitely a worthy endeavor.
We could pretty much afford to repeal just about every amendment since the 13th.
It amazed me that state legislators voted away this power. Why would they do that? So I dug a little and it was because their Senator vote created controversy for their constituents. Why bother caring about these state reps now? Most things of importance are centered in DC .Congress and the Court of Supreme whim has killed the 10th with the 14th Amendment. I know I cared very little about who my state rep was until recently. It was only my desire for Article V that kindled my interest in state legislature matters.
I’d like to see no out-out-of state money and no corporate money in campaigns.
I think we should start with McConnell "moving on" to spend more time with his family and less time messing up mine!
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