[betty boop]

The Senate still retains its powers, it's just the controlling link to the state legislatures that is broken.

But absent the controlling link to the state legislatures, what powers does the Senate legitimately exercise under the Constitution? The Seventeenth Amendment absolutely extinguished the entire raison d'être for the Senate as envisioned by the Framers of the Constitution — that the Senate is the representative body of the States in Congress.

And it's all been downhill from there.... Now it seems that the only people Senators "represent" is — themselves.

[Political Junkie Too]

You are staying from the debate. The point of discussion is that you want to entrust the aggregation of applications for an Article V convention to a Congress that you agree is broken, empowering them with a made-up requirement for single-subject applications that can only serve to stifle the call for a proposing Convention.

-PJ