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Jodey Arrington: they had the requisite applications to have an Article V convention of the States, to rein in us, the knuckleheads that…

On the recordMarch 18, 2026
they had the requisite applications to have an Article V convention of the States, to rein in us, the knuckleheads that refuse to accept that it is not a Democratic problem or a Republican problem. It is an institutional problem that persists and will destroy the greatest Nation in human history. Let's look to the States, and let's call that convention like we should have done in the 1970s and 1980s. Let's let them rein us in, restore fiscal sanity in their Nation's Capital, and reverse the curse that looms large over this country.
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Jodey Arrington
Republican · Texas

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Addressing the need for an Article V convention to address institutional problems in the U.S.

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