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Should there be term limits on congress?

Should congress have term limits?

  • yes

    Votes: 19 48.7%
  • no

    Votes: 16 41.0%
  • house only

    Votes: 1 2.6%
  • senate only

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • not sure

    Votes: 3 7.7%

  • Total voters
    39

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The 22nd amendment of the constitution places a limit of two terms on the president. Should the same happen to congress.
 
The 22nd amendment of the constitution places a limit of two terms on the president. Should the same happen to congress.

No. Who may be elected to represent a state (or district within a state) should be left to the several states to decide. If anything should be changed it should be the addition of a mandatory retirement age for any federal official including those on the SCOTUS.
 
No. Who may be elected to represent a state (or district within a state) should be left to the several states to decide. If anything should be changed it should be the addition of a mandatory retirement age for any federal official including those on the SCOTUS.

What max age do you think it should be?
 
No.

Worry about gerrymandering and campaign finance laws, not long tenures.
 
I think there should be and I would do it this way.

A Senator currently serves a six year term before facing reelection.

A Member of the House serves a two year term.

I think a total of 24 years combined service should be allowed.

A Representative should be limited to a total of six two-year terms (12 years), while a Senator can only serve two six-year terms (12 years).

Thus a Congressman can be elected to serve six times as a Representative and two times as a Senator.

If you can't get stuff done in 24 years, you are a waste of taxpayer time. ;)

That's it.
 
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IMO there should be a two term limit for EVERY ELECTED OFFICE IN America @ every level; municipal, county, state, federal, everything

there is no reason in Hell why political office needs to be a career

holding political office is about PUBLIC SERVICE; it is NOT about your GD career .............

after two terms GO GET A GD JOB somewhere else & STOP LIVING OFF THE GUBMINT DIME ...... ..............



The United States Congress is actually the VERY ENTITY that WAS supposed to chart the better course for OUR nation; they have completely FAILED at this task for AT LEAST THE PAST 100 YEARS

If any body requires term limits it is The United States Congress; TWO TERMS & YOUR A** = GONE .................. period ................
 
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Should there be term limits on congress?

this is what i'd prefer.

congress gets :

paid the median American salary

the median vacation package

covered by the health care bill that it passes

the median retirement package.
 
Congress doesn't need term limits. The American people need IQ tests.
 
Congress doesn't need term limits. The American people need IQ tests.

Be very careful what you wish for - if they are found to be "disabled" then they might become quite expensive to support (for life?) with tax money. ;)
 
I don't believe nay office should have term limits, if the people want to keep electing that person to be their representative they should be able to.
 
IMO if the voters want politicians that are making a career out of politics then the voters will get the shaft from career politicians = stupid voters

that is why America is in such great shape ........... but I guess no one has figured that out yet ................ just keep bending over America ...............
 
There already are: Senate six years ..... House two years.

Get rid of gerrymandering and make districts actually competitive and that solves the problem.
 
The 22nd amendment of the constitution places a limit of two terms on the president. Should the same happen to congress.

I used to be all for term limits. But we do have them, 2 years for house members and six for senators. It's called elections. The people of any district or state should be allowed to elect whomever they want. If they don't want someone, they can always vote them out. It's is true gerrymandering and the creation of safe districts for incumbents make many of the House elections meaningless. If anything gerrymandering should be outlawed, made illegal. The people should should choose whom will represent them, not some Representatives choosing their voters.

If anything, I think the 22nd amendment should be repealed. If the American people are willing, satisfied with any particular president to elect him to a third term they should have the right to do it. As it stands now, anyone elected to a second term becomes an automatic lame duck president as soon as he takes the oath of office a second time.

As for congress, it is usually those folks who aren't in a congressman's district or a senators state that complain the most about them and want them out. Not the people within their district or state. I firmly believe the people outside of a congressman's district or a senator's state should have no say in whom they elect. But I highly doubt term limits would make much of a difference in the way Washington works. Polarization would still be there. Congressmen and Senators for the most part would still follow their political party's line. They do so today even if the people of their district or state are against what their political party is doing. The names of our elected officials would change with term limits, but not the business of usual with congressmen and senators representing their political party.

Perhaps the only hope of that changing would be to also repeal the 17th amendment and let the state legislatures choose their senators as originally done. This way senators would be more willing to represent their state than political party. Better we try to make gerrymandering illegal and stop the creation of safe districts than term limits. My two cents anyway.
 
No. Who may be elected to represent a state (or district within a state) should be left to the several states to decide. If anything should be changed it should be the addition of a mandatory retirement age for any federal official including those on the SCOTUS.

Actually the Constitution itself establishes the election rules for Congress, it just doesn't set term limits. Only an amendment could make that happen. The states have zero control. Voters could theoretically set limits.
 
this is what i'd prefer.

congress gets :

paid the median American salary

the median vacation package

covered by the health care bill that it passes

the median retirement package.
I'm inclined to agree, and yet, I feel this would have little positive impact on corruption.
 
No.

Worry about gerrymandering and campaign finance laws, not long tenures.

Term limits are a GOP ruse they like to use when they're not in power, especially recently in 1994 and 2010 when they took over the Federal House .
 
There already are term limits...2 and 6 years. If the people of a state dont like the job their reps are doing they have great opportunities to vote them out.

The problem with DC is not that there arent term limits. It is that the fed has become bloated beyond reason.
 
Congress doesn't need term limits. The American people need IQ tests.

The American people needing IQ tests that you deflect to would make sense for those in Virginia, where they have a ridiculous ONE-TERM limit for governor.

They also vote in an off-year, the year after the POTUS election, THIS year.

Both of these hold down voter turn-out, a Southern tradition.

Virginia currently has one of the most gerrymandered GOP remaps .
 
No.

Worry about gerrymandering and campaign finance laws, not long tenures.

The reason why GOPs want to get rid of the 17th amendment is because the vast majority of statehouses are GOP and they would appoint GOP Senators. Instead of 52 GOP Senators, there'd be more like 70 IF we could seat all 100, which we couldn't.

Since these GOP statehouses are highly gerrymandered, both the House and Senate would be picked by the Statehouses, the House by remaps and the Senate by party cronyism.

After over 100 years of corruption and stalemate without the 17th, intelligent progress--ives in both parties like Theodore Roosevelt helped pass the 17th 100 years ago.

With the 100% polarized country we have now, we would only be able to seat about 70 Senators at any given time since we have about 15-20 states that have divided government .
 
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