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