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The Volokh Conspiracy » Recall of U.S. Senators Is ...
By Eugene Volokh
The relevant constitutional provision is the Seventeenth Amendment, though the issue would have been similar under the pre-Seventeenth-Amendment constitutional provisions, which provided that senators would be elected by state ...

Senator Reid to seek START ratification this year
Reuters
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) listens to a question from a reporter during a news conference in Las Vegas, Nevada November 3, 2010. ...

The Oppositional Defense of Republican Senator Leader McConnell for a Ban on ...
Coffetoday
Congress got back on Monday to a new political scandal, with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell admitting to a highlight ...

Senator Dodd undone – tweeted and deleted
Reuters Blogs (blog)
“U love torturing me w this shit” was tweeted on Senator Christopher Dodd's Twitter account @SenChrisDodd. Then came the tweet ”From Dodd Staff – Apologies ...

Bob Edgar: Whose Side Is Your Senator on?
By Bob Edgar
Whose side is our Senate on? Hedge fund billionaires, oil executives and health insurance honchos looking to secretly buy our elections; or the American people who have a right to know who's behind the spending?

Senator Jay Rockefeller Wishes FCC Would Shut Down Fox News
Fox News
A powerful Democratic senator, pointing the finger at cable news for a politically toxic climate in Washington, unleashed a stunning tirade in which he ...