The House term of office should be increased to four years effective the next Congress by constitutional amendment.
We have the CR issue because the House members spend too much time and effort running for reelection.
Had actually been thinking of term limits. Preventing House Members from serving more than six or eight years consecutively without taking at least two or four years off from service in the House. To cycle in fresh blood and new talent. And to force changes in leadership and committee assignments. And of course to prevent entrenched corruption a lá San Fran Nan.
Also:
Repeal the 17th Amendment.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/404337-is-it-time-to-repeal-the-17th-amendment/
“We have the CR issue because the House members spend too much time and effort running for reelection.”
Incorrect. We have the CR issue because Republicans in the House have allowed themselves to be led around by the nose by Senate Democrats and because we haven’t had a Republican President with the balls to put a stop to it.
Now we do.
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“The House term of office should be increased to four years effective the next Congress by constitutional amendment.”
And the Senate term of office reduced to ??