Why has no one pushed for them before?
Congress doesn’t vote against themselves
Need you ask??? The “professional politicians” don’t want to lose their “cush”...
I am not necessarily against term limits, however I think the problem is upstream of the elected officials. If the electorate had skin in the game, they would hold the reps accountable.
Too much of our electorate has no skin in the game. They either don’t pay taxes or they welch off the system, voting for the slime that provide the goodies at the real tax payers expense.
I think the better solution is a simplified tax code where a flat rate is applied to all income (and the number is less than 10%). Welfare only to those truly in need and unable to work for physical reasons, and welfare handled by the states, not the fed.
If a constitutional amendment is needed, its that ALL expenditures from the fed must be justified by specific articles of the constitution. If it is not national defense related, it probably doesn’t belong there and “bring home the bacon” representative should not be allowed to spend federal tax dollars for constituent perks.
It was a part of Newt’s Contract With America, but Congress wouldn’t pass that one part!
SCOTUS rebuffed a state which undertook term limits on congressmen from its jurisdiction . . .