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[State] Legislators seek say over U.S. senators [UT]
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| Contributor | particleman |
| Last Edited | particleman Jan 26, 2006 01:53am |
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| Category | Proposed Legislation |
| News Date | Tuesday, January 24, 2006 07:50:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Utahns trust their 104 part-time legislators with many important decisions. But should "selecting" or "directing" the state's two U.S. senators be among them?
State Sen. Howard Stephenson, R-Draper, and 19 of his 28 colleagues say "yes."
"The 17th Amendment was a huge mistake," Stephenson said Monday, the day he introduced what he calls "a soft repeal" of the 1914 amendment to the U.S. Constitution that called for popular election of the U.S. Senate. Previously, as written by the Founding Fathers, U.S. senators were picked by their state legislatures.
Stephenson's SB156 would allow state political parties to write internal party rules that would let party members in the Utah House and Senate pick their party's U.S. Senate candidates.
The bill would also call for the Legislature as a whole to "direct" U.S. senators on important issues via lawmakers adopting resolutions. It would require a U.S. senator to report back to the Legislature how he or she were "following" the direction set out in the resolutions.
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