Russ Feingold's amendment to be

Wisconsin senator Russ Feingold will propose a constitutional amendment that would require a special election in the event of any Senate vacancies. They already do this in the House, so why not the Senate? Currently, 38 states allow for the governor to appoint someone to the senate for at most two years. As we have seen with Illinois and New York's vacancies, these can bring about controversies of their own, and besides have you looked at who they let be governor these days? Clearly these people can not be trusted, though as Minnesota has shown neither can voters.

This actually seems like a great idea, one whose time should have come years ago. In order for an amendment to pass, it needs a 2/3 majority in the House, a 2/3 majority in the Senate and then a simple majority approval in 3/4 of the state legislatures, so this will of course never pass.