The Utah Senate asked Congress to repeal the 17th Amendment, which was ratified under the Progressive’s of 1913. Utah has boldly challenged a system that was never the intent of the Founding Fathers and suggests that the 17th Amendment has resulted in Senators being bound to special interest groups, that donate enormous sums of money for the Senator’s re-election, and not representing the needs of the people of Utah.
The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Al Jackson of Utah, believes that Senators need to “come home every weekend and take direction from their state legislative (sic) body and from the House and the Governor on how they should vote in the upcoming week.”
Passing with 20-6 SJR2 was sent to the House. It demands that Congress repeal the 17th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Read a history of the 17th Amendment and why Utah has made such a bold call to action on the following page.
Amen!!! We need to go back to the way it was before all these bleeding hearts wanted to open this country up to just anyone. We need to focus on US first for a change…$#%&!@*the rest of the world
Stupid
We need to take awsy there ability to vote for own pay raises. Have it atrached to balance budget
If you do not like the Constitution the way it was written leave this country
Who are you to say the Constitution needs to be changed – grow up
agree…
Stupid bill. Think of all the money it would cost the tax payers. In this electronic age there’s no reason for this nonsense.
It would make Senators beholden to their state politics.. Right now a Senator spends 90% of it’s time fundraising, not just in their state, but from anywhere in the world….
Repeal the 163th also.
Bob Hollinger exactly , I guess that would be a no