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Just for ghits and shiggles RECALL TED CRUZ, IMMEDIATELY! (Original Post) Faux pas Jul 2014 OP
Recall him back to his home country of Canada! FSogol Jul 2014 #1
Amen! +1000 Faux pas Jul 2014 #2
Senators and Representatives cannot be recalled. MohRokTah Jul 2014 #3
Maybe that should be changed. Faux pas Jul 2014 #4
Start up a movement to amend the constitution. MohRokTah Jul 2014 #5
Thanks for the info Faux pas Aug 2014 #7
One more thing to add to add to the list ofn Constitutional Amendments... brooklynite Jul 2014 #6
lol Faux pas Aug 2014 #8
 

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
3. Senators and Representatives cannot be recalled.
Thu Jul 31, 2014, 04:14 PM
Jul 2014

The House of Representatives has the only constitutional authority to remove a sitting member of the House.

The Senate has the only constitutional authority to remove a sitting member of the Senate.

Once in office, the only way citizens can remove a sitting member of either body is to vote them out of office in an election.

Faux pas

(14,700 posts)
4. Maybe that should be changed.
Thu Jul 31, 2014, 04:15 PM
Jul 2014

Change has to begin somewhere. I personally LOVE the idea. If the totally ignorant voted the ass in, those with a brain and a heart should be able to get him outta there.

 

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
5. Start up a movement to amend the constitution.
Thu Jul 31, 2014, 04:24 PM
Jul 2014

The portion that needs to be amended is in Article I., Section 5.:

Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.

Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.

Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.

Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.


Since this is a power delegated the United States under the constitution, it does not and cannot fall to the states to decide.

brooklynite

(94,827 posts)
6. One more thing to add to add to the list ofn Constitutional Amendments...
Thu Jul 31, 2014, 04:27 PM
Jul 2014

...which one (ERA, Campaign Finance, Gun Rights) would you like to move down a notch?

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