The United States Senate is an undemocratic institution. Just do the math: Progressive California Senator Kamala Harris was elected in 2016 with 7,542,753 votes. Yet her vote on issues such as health-care reform counts for no more than that of conservative Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi, who was elected in 2014 with 121,554 votes.
This is an absurd imbalance. In fact, the only thing that would make it more absurd would be if voters were removed from the equation altogether.
-- The Nation
In this treacherous new effort, the American corporate legislative council seeks to abolish the 17th Amendments guarantee of the direct election of Senators. This hideous assault on our voting privilege threatens to turn the Senate into what it was before -- the province of legislators bought and paid for by wealthy tycoons.
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