Current Events > TOM STEYER JUST WON MY vote! Term limits for Congress

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Did I actually just hear a national politician actually say they want a 12-year term limit for Congress??

I LOVE THIS MAN! I've said term limits would be a panacea for soooooo many of our issues.

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Republican congressmen would just kill it like they do with most good ideas.

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Congressional term limits should have already been a constitutional amendment called by the states like the 21st amendment.

Congress literally has zero incentive to pass term limits for themselves.
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Damn_Underscore posted...

Congress literally has zero incentive to pass term limits for themselves.

They have a massive incentive? They're voted by the people?

I want the entire paradigm to shift on this issue. I want people to see the issue the way I do: that Congress needs these term limits, and that Congress is a festering wasteland if you allow some of these folks to stick around without limits.

John Boehner's DAYTON, OH district comes to mind as one that basically guaranteed lifetime appointment.

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They have a bigger incentive not to because they are politicians and being in Congress is how they make money now and in the future.

The best you could do as far a law is grandfathering in every current member of Congress.
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And I would be fine with said grandfathering. That would be fine. Those who are grandfathered would be dead in the next quarter century anyhow, and the issue would be done.

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