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| Utah lawmaker files bill to allow recall of sitting U.S. senator |
| 2020-01-31 |
| [Deseret News] SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah lawmaker has filed a bill to allow Utahns to recall an elected United States senator. The lawmaker, Rep. Tim Quinn, R-Heber City, told the Deseret News in an interview Wednesday shortly after the bill was made public that it’s not meant to target any specific sitting Utah senator — but it comes amid heightened national attention on Sen. Mitt Romney, who has been among the few Republican senators publicly critical of President Donald Trump. Romney in recent days has ignited simmering controversy over whether to bring additional witnesses and documents into the impeachment trial against Trump. Yet Quinn said his bill isn’t aimed at Romney or any specific senator — though he acknowledged his bill comes at a time that people will likely construe it that way. “I know that’s what’s going to be the narrative,” Quinn said. “If it were, then it might make sense to have a sunset on it. That would not be the case.” Rather, Quinn said he started drafting the bill “weeks and weeks ago” after some constituents came to him raising ideas of how Utah could return to a “pre-17th Amendment” time, or when U.S. senators were appointed rather than elected. To Quinn, a six-year term for a senator is a lengthy term, and his bill would be a “good mechanism in place to make any senator, current or future, a little more accountable to those who elected him or her.” “Six years is a long time,” he said. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 Delecto delenda est. |
| Posted by: KBK 2020-01-31 18:57 |
| #3 The need to have Senators and Representatives live and work in DC was because of the time it took to get anywhere in the 1800s. These people should be doing most of their work in their home states and only visiting DC for short periods of time. |
| Posted by: Solomon Brown7362 2020-01-31 12:55 |
| #2 I think the idea of the Founding Fathers when they created the Senate with six year terms was to make the Senate less volatile than the House, less affected by the current passions of the mob. I don't think it was meant to make the Senators totally unaccountable. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-01-31 11:06 |
| #1 Let us know if there is anything we can do to help Rep. Quinn, anything at all. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-01-31 08:18 |