Republicans Say Term Limits for All Members of Congress Would Bring About ‘Real Change’ in Washington
A Republican senator has introduced a constitutional amendment that would apply term limits to all members of Congress. U.S. Representatives would serve a maximum of three two-year terms, and U.S. senators would serve a maximum of two six-year terms.
"Americans know real change in Washington will never happen until we end the era of permanent politicians," said Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, who sponsored the amendment. Co-sponsors include Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), and Sam Brownback (R-Kan.).
Constitutional amendments require a two-thirds majority vote approval in the House and Senate and must be ratified by three-fourths of the states.
"As long as members have the chance to spend their lives in Washington, their interests will always skew toward spending taxpayer dollars to buy off special interests, covering over corruption in the bureaucracy, fund raising, relationship building among lobbyists, and trading favors for pork – in short, amassing their own power,’ DeMint said in a news release announcing the proposed amendment.
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10 comments:
Im all for limiting them, however I dont think they should work those limits then be able to collect a pension or health care afterwards. No one else works 6-12 years and gets a pension and free health care for the rest of their lives. This will just make the amount we spend on the government go up even more.
I dont know about this one. There are elections for this. The people are already deciding if they are satisfied with their representatives. This could go either way. Change isn't always good, like the change some of you have dumped on me now.
I agree with term limits and also adjustments in pension and health benefits. We need true patriots who want to serve the people, not line their pockets and increase their personal power.
There are actually two things needed to straighten out the current mess.
1) Term Limits
2) Abolish pay roll withholding. If more Americans had to personally write a check to Uncle Sam every quarter to the tune of several thousand dollars, then everyone would be paying much closer attention to how their money is spent by Washington. As it is now only the self employed experience this and it isn't just coincidence that most self employed people tend to be more on the conservative side.
9:18
I like the way you think
Oddly, many mainstream media outlets seem to be ignoring this.
9:18 - I'm with you on abolishing withholding taxes.
But as to term limits, we already have them. If Americans are too stupid/lazy/whatever to vote, we deserve the government we get.
This bill will do NO good as long as they are able to keep being paid after they are out of office for the rest of their life.
We need to get rid of THAT!
The cost of the "pension" will be even greater if we put term limits in place because then we'll be paying even MORE people a pension.
There are so many in Washington getting very wealthy off our tax dollars by not representing the tax payers. Then, they vote themselves raises and we have NO say in it.
Maybe with the next Presidential election we should demand to be able to vote whether or not members of Congress get raises!
What a novel idea!
Anonymous 2:00, that is an excellent point. The current text of the proposed amendment does not address pensions or benefits.
This comes up every session...and fails.
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