Alabama House Votes To End Special U.S. Senate Elections

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama is on track to end special elections for the state's two U.S. Senate seats when vacancies occur.

House Bill 17 passed Tuesday on a largely party-line vote with a two-thirds majority of the state House — where Republicans hold two-thirds of the seats — and now moves to the state Senate, where Democrats make up about 1 in 5 lawmakers. It would allow a governor's appointee for U.S. Senate to serve until the next general election.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/24/alabama-house-votes-end-special-u-s-senate-elections/1061780001/