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On the recordOctober 3, 2011
I really don't know the answer to this question. But the Seventeenth Amendment was ratified in 1913...
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas

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Gohmert discusses the impact of the Seventeenth Amendment on state control over Senate selection.

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