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Senate panel votes to advance resolution calling for repeal of 17th Amendment to U.S. Constitution
Summary
The Senate Committee on Legislative Administration voted 4-2 to advance Senate Joint Resolution 22, a proposal urging repeal of the Seventeenth Amendment so state legislatures would again select U.S. senators.
Senate Joint Resolution 22, presented by Senator Greg Hertz, would propose that Montana support repeal of the Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (the amendment that established direct popular election of U.S. senators) and return to selecting U.S. senators by state legislatures. The sponsor argued repeal would restore the founders’ federalism by strengthening state representation in…
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