Congressional term limits of 3 terms in the House and 2 terms in the Senate are needed to restore accountability and fix incentives that reward lawmakers for breaking their promises. The status quo in Washington discourages fiscal discipline by allowing members who fall in line with leadership to accrue more and more power. Strong term limits would break that cycle and disrupt incumbents’ ties with special interests.
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Last week, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution held a hearing titled “Keeping Congress Accountable: Term Limits In the United States.” Chaired by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the primary sponsor of the Senate’s constitutional amendment to impose term limits on Congress, the hearing included testimony from former-Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) as well as from a panel of two professors -- Lynda W. Powell and Dr. John David Rausch, Jr. -- alongside Nick Tomboulides, the Executive Director of the nonprofit group U.S. Term Limits.
On behalf of our activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and senators and ask them to cosponsor the amendment to the United States Constitution to limit the number of terms Members of the House and Senate can serve. This is a bicameral effort led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), sponsor of S.J.Res. 1, and Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Fla.), sponsor of H.J.Res. 20.
As Congress returns from recess, we hold out hope that they will make better use of this session than the last one and work to fulfill their campaign promises. But even while politicians in the House and Senate were away from Washington this week, state legislatures remained active.
On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community in Georgia, I urge you to contact your state representative and ask him or her to support, HR 37, sponsored by state Reps. Michael Caldwell (R-Woodstock), John Pezold (R-Fortson), Scot Turner (R-Holly Springs), and Wes Cantrell (R-Woodstock).
On behalf of FreedomWorks’ activist community, I urge you to contact your representative and senators and urge him or her to support an amendment to the United States Constitution to limit the number of terms Members of the House and Senate can serve. This is a bicameral effort led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), sponsor of S.J. Res. 2, and Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), sponsor of H.J. Res. 6.