State Representative Brian Harrison has proposed a bill that could have either of Texas’ U.S. senators be recalled by a simple majority in both chambers of the state legislature.
“I filed a bill to authorize the Texas Legislature to recall U.S. Senators who go rogue. Texas must act boldly like the sovereign state our founders intended,” Harrison wrote on X.
Currently, Texas is represented by Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn. Cruz was recently re-elected for a third term, beating Democratic challenger Colin Allred with 53.1 percent of the vote, reported Newsweek.
Cornyn threw his hat in the ring for Senate Majority Leader for the next legislative session only to lose this week to Senator John Thune from South Dakota.
Harrison believes that the proposed bill is a way to restore the balance of power.
“The federal government was intended to be a creation of and responsive to the sovereign states. However, as conservative legal scholars have long recognized, the 10th Amendment rights of states and the people have significantly diminished since the adoption of the 17th Amendment.”
“The rate of unconstitutional encroachments by the federal government on state sovereignty has continued to increase. … It is necessary to restore the appropriate balance of power between the sovereign State of Texas and the federal government. HB 1267 does this by restoring the original constitutional design that federal senators serve the best interest of the State of Texas,” Harrison said in a statement, as reported by Newsweek.
Texas lawmakers are beginning to file bills they hope will become law next year. The 89th legislative session is not set to begin until January 14, 2025, reported the Houston Chronicle.