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Posted on 01/08/2025 11:37:13 AM PST by Perseverando
Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., introduced an amendment to the Constitution on Wednesday to limit the amount of terms a House member and U.S. senator can serve.
Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, introduced the Senate version.
Under the amendment, a senator could serve two services and a House member could serve three terms.
In terms of a special election, the amendment defines a "qualifying term" as one year or more in the House of Representatives and three years or more in the Senate.
The amendment would not be retroactive and would apply to terms lawmakers serve after its adoption.
Term limit bills have been introduced in the past but they haven't become law.
Some of the longest serving members of Congress include the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who served from 1993 to 2023 and former Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who served from 1975 to 2023.
Since most get in pretty young...say 30...that gets them into the normal retirement range.
reasonable limits
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I would make it three terms for the Senate, six terms for the House. That’s still way less than what we now have.
The uniparty fedzilla bureaucrats are rejoicing in this stupid news. They will really run amok screwing the tax payers forever. Lobbyists are very happy too!
The real and permanent fix is to repeal the 17th Amendment. Our Founding Father’s were not stupid.
Any time for a bad one is too much and 12 sounds about right for all.
On the other hand, I’d favor amending the Constitution to make the House term four years instead of two. As it is, they spend too much time campaigning. If this was done, I’d limit them to three or four terms.
Why do I suspect this is as dead as old Joe’s cortex?
BAD IDEA
And those who support it are STUPID and not thinking of consequences.
Fed.gov is already run by permanent apparatchiks, with immense power and bureaucratic fiefdoms, make the rules and are completely unaccountable.
who ever voted even once for Anthony Fauci, James Comey, John Brennan, Rachel Walensky, etc...?
yet we saw these people have 40 year careers, shut down the entire country, plan a coup against a sitting President, and demand every American take an experimental vaccine?
So the answer is to leave these people in place, and make YOUR elected representatives tourists in Washington DC?
If you want a blunt instrument - how about FIRST having term-limits and/or strict reviews on all government programs and high-level Fed.gov???employees??
Would it help to put an age limit on service?
It went nowhere when Newt tried
It will never make it out of committee. Congress will never vote to limit its power. The only body that would write such an amendment and send it to the states for ratification is an Article V Convention of the States.
I disagree. The problem with the parliament in the UK is that they're stuck with it for the next five years.
At least there's turnover in the House every two years here in the U.S.
Exactly! The deep-state already mostly rules outside of congressional or judicial oversight.
The next obvious step is to turn the proles' elected officials into short-term tourists in the center of the empire.
Yes indeed! That is the elephant in the room...
The 17th was the first blow against the Republic struck by the Marxists in their 111-year-long march to the absolute control over the U.S. they hold today...
It will go nowhere now and that is a good thing. It is like using a bulldozer to break an egg. Age limits OK term limits a nonsolution with unintended consequences.
Two terms in each...
Worded just like Presidential Term Limits.
What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
“Politician” was never intended to be a career.
“They need to term limit the bureaucrats in DC first”
Absolutely and unequivocally, and take the filthy unions out too.
We’ve had term limits in MI for a number of years, they appear not to work. In the last state election democrats took control of the state house and the state senate for the first time in decades, explain this. The bureaucracy remains even though a member is forced to move along. People will vote for conservatives on a state level here but no longer for the state level RINOs, I am one of them.
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