If there was ever an issue being considered by Congress, this is one that should be dead on arrival. Rep. Victoria Spartz has signed on as a co-author of a proposal to repeal the 17th amendment to ...

A Republican resolution would repeal the 17th Amendment and return the selection of U.S. senators to state legislatures.

House Republicans seek to repeal the 17th Amendment as tensions with Senate Republicans deepen over the stalled SAVE America ...

EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Keith Self (R-TX) is proposing to repeal a constitutional amendment regarding who gets to choose members of the Senate. Self, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, is introducing a ...

The long-forgotten 17th Amendment — the one that gave us direct election of senators — has suddenly moved to center stage in the new debate over constitutional first principles fostered by the Tea ...

Prior to the passage of the 17th Amendment, U.S. Senators were chosen by state legislatures, not by voters at the ballot box. Conservatives have been debating the merits of the 17th Amendment for a ...

A group of Republican representatives is pushing to repeal the 17th Amendment, which gave voters the right to elect their own senators, amid a feud between House and Senate Republicans over the SAVE ...

Members of Congress are pushing to repeal the 17th Amendment and elect senators the way the Constitution originally decreed. Nine GOP House lawmakers have co-signed a joint resolution introduced by ...

Last month, eight members of the Freedom Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced House Joint Resolution 198 (HJR198). Congressional approval of this resolution is the first step in ...

EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Keith Self (R-TX) is proposing to repeal a constitutional amendment regarding who gets to choose members of the Senate. Self, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, is introducing a ...