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On the recordMarch 10, 2009
Currently, the Constitution's Seventeenth Amendment provides for the popular election of Senators, but it provides an exception in which States can allow Governors to appoint Senators to fill vacancies until a special election is held.
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Jim Sensenbrenner
Republican · Wisconsin

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Sensenbrenner discusses the current process for filling Senate vacancies under the Seventeenth Amendment.

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