Okay, to Sen. McConnell and the 42 other gutless senators who voted to acquit: Enough is enough. Having run for office 11 times, I understand the fear of losing. They act like sheep waiting to be directed where to go. This has become increasingly evident. Remember when legislation requiring a background check for a gun purchase failed in Congress even though most Americans favor the idea?
Nothing seems to work with members of Congress; their fear of losing an election has become paralyzing and their ability to do anything that has the slightest opposition is almost nonexistent.
Sensible term limits — six terms for House members and two terms for senators — would solve the problem. If you were a senator in your ninth year of service, the only thing you would risk in taking an unpopular vote would be an additional three years in office, not a career.
Although I admire Sen. When I was governor of Pennsylvania, I proposed a tax increase to fund, in large part, early childhood education. The Framers of our Constitution contemplated that Congress would be filled with citizen soldiers, farmers, business owners, shopkeepers, accountants, lawyers and others who would come to Washington, serve for a few years, and then return to their hometowns.
Attorneys General term limits. State executive term limits. Local Local term limits. Elections and campaigns. Local voting laws. H : 4 terms 8 years S : 4 terms 8 years. H : S : Arkansas Legislature. California Legislature. A : S : Colorado Legislature. H : 4 terms 8 years S : 2 terms 8 years. Louisiana Legislature. H : 3 terms 12 years S : 3 terms 12 years. Michigan Legislature.
H : 3 terms 6 years S : 2 terms 8 years. Missouri Legislature. Amendment 13 also see: Amendment 3 Nebraska Unicameral. S : 2 terms 8 years. S : They would bring new perspectives to Congress, encouraging those with fresh ideas to run for office perhaps to some degree offsetting the Supreme Court's holding that gerrymandering is constitutional. Term limits also would diminish incentives for election-related spending that have proliferated in the careerist Congress especially following the Supreme Court's decision validating the solicitation and receipt of unlimited campaign contributions.
Although there are strong arguments against term limits, a further significant benefit would be a counterbalancing of incumbent financial and media advantages, as well as the name recognition, media access and embedded political contributions that flow to incumbency.
Term limits also would incentivize members of Congress to nurture their successors by providing the types of apprenticeship experiences that make for practical staff training in other industries, thereby taking legislation out of the hands of lobbyists, bureaucrats and unelected Beltway insiders. Leveraging Our Differences. Sign up for The Fulcrum newsletter No wonder those elected to Congress make every effort to hold onto their jobs and special-interest groups spend lavishly to ensure that those they've elected continue to protect and enhance their special interests.
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Others followed. After the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled against us, we took it all the way to the U. SCOTUS opined that since the Constitution sets forth the criteria that determines the requirements for Senators and Congressional Representatives, only the Constitution can limit the terms of Congress members.
The Court decided, in a split decision, that citizens are not allowed to term limit their own members of Congress using state laws.
Justice Scalia disagreed, ruling for term limits as part of the dissenting minority. This was without doubt a low point for term limits.
The Court seemed to have shut down every realistic avenue to fight careerism in Washington. Did you catch that?
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