Term Limits
Institute term limits to replace professional legislators with new ideas and new people.
Under present rules, members of the U.S. Congress can run for office and be elected as many times as they might desire. When candidates have been elected a number of times, they start to see themselves as infallible and above the law. One only has to remember Anthony Weiner, Mark Foley, Larry Craig, Christopher Lee, and Mel Reynolds - all of whom were involved in sex scandals - to see the attitude that they can do whatever they please.
In addition, voters tend to vote for the "same old same old" instead of investigating candidates.
Politicians who are repeatedly re-elected tend to join their own culture and become more involved in satisfying that culture and becoming elected again than representing the people who put them in office. It becomes more difficult for these politicians to understand the daily struggles of "regular" citizens.
THEREFORE, we, the undersigned, petition Members of the U.S. Senate and Members of the U.S. House of Representatives to enact the following legislation:
1) TERM LIMIT - no elected person in the U.S. Senate may serve more than two (2) terms (12 years);
2) TERM LIMIT - no elected person in the U.S. House of Representatives may serve more than 3 terms (6 years);
3) TERM LIMIT - those elected to one house of Congress may run for election in the other before or after the term limit of the house in which they are a member has been reached;
4) TERM LIMIT - should any individual serve to the term limit in both houses of Congress, that individual will be forbidden to run for office in either house for a period of five (5) years.
In addition, voters tend to vote for the "same old same old" instead of investigating candidates.
Politicians who are repeatedly re-elected tend to join their own culture and become more involved in satisfying that culture and becoming elected again than representing the people who put them in office. It becomes more difficult for these politicians to understand the daily struggles of "regular" citizens.
THEREFORE, we, the undersigned, petition Members of the U.S. Senate and Members of the U.S. House of Representatives to enact the following legislation:
1) TERM LIMIT - no elected person in the U.S. Senate may serve more than two (2) terms (12 years);
2) TERM LIMIT - no elected person in the U.S. House of Representatives may serve more than 3 terms (6 years);
3) TERM LIMIT - those elected to one house of Congress may run for election in the other before or after the term limit of the house in which they are a member has been reached;
4) TERM LIMIT - should any individual serve to the term limit in both houses of Congress, that individual will be forbidden to run for office in either house for a period of five (5) years.
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