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>> to recap, if you can eat it, you can pass it. it took me all day to practice saying that without turning beet red as i am now and losing my composure. since his go ahead eat it and then pass it contribution to the debate, mr. gohmert has decided that the democratically elected senate is the actual problem. his proposed solution is we don't democratically elect senators. he's proposing now to repeal the 17th amendment to the constitution, so state legislatures would pick senators from here on out instead of letting the regular citizen riffraff in the states choose their own senators by votin...

This will do it. let's get an amendment that gets the balance back into the country and the constitution before this congress destroys what's left. >> in other words take the 17th amendment to the constitution, chew on it for a while, swallow, allow it to travel through the narrow passage of the legislative process where it is broken down to smaller molecules, wait 24 to 27 hours and dump it out. then and only then will you have a real louie gohmert style democracy where democratically elected legislators never again take majority votes in favor of something they campaign to do-do.

>> that's not true. i think that -- i remember reading one of my teachers saying that i was planning to be president when i was 6. you know, when i was 6 i wanted to, i think, be a fireman. >> a fireman? >> well, let me tell you all boys wanted to be a fireman when they grew up. i certainly did. finally, power to the people. that's apparently not the slogan that louie gohmert of texas a big state's rights guy was trumpeting on the house floor yesterday. looks like the congressman is nostalgic for the old days. the time before the 17th amendment. that's right, before the popular election of u...

Usurpation of states rights. we have 39 states upset, wanting to do something and not have another unfunded federal mandate coming down their throats. this will do it. let's get an amendment that gets the balance back into the country and the constitution before this congress destroys what's left. >> in other words take the 17th amendment to the constitution, chew on it for a while, swallow, allow it to to travel through the narrow passage of the legislative process where it is broken down to smaller molecules, wait 24 to 27 hours and dump it out. only then would you have a louie gohmert style...

First up republican congressman, the texas lawmaker, saying that the american people should no longer have the power to elect their senators? really? he says we should repeal the 17th amendment which in 1913 took that power away from cigar-filled backrooms of state legislators. >> the 17th amendment took out the last check and balance on use of patient on state's rights. it's time to get the balance back in place. let's get an amendment that gets the balance back into the country and the constitution before this congress destroys what's left. >> why do this? mr. gohmyrt thinks it is the soluti...