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Originally Posted by sunnyatlast
This, like almost every other monetary matter Congress and the administrations get their hands on and manipulate, could be stopped if term limits of one, single term of 3 or 6 years were put into place on Congress members, with no further runs for congressional office allowed. Their constant goal of getting re-elected and using our money to play Santa Claus to get votes needs to stop.
They need to be sent home after one term to work and earn and pay the bills like the rest of us do.
Term limits are good for the presidency, so why not have them for Congress, too!! Problem is, THEY would never vote that through.
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I've been saying this for years. One term and done, six years for reps and nine years for senators. Replace one third of each house every three years. Of course they would still spend some time trying to get members of their party elected to replace them, but it would cut down a lot of what they do in terms of campaigning unless it was just prohibited.
And while we're at it, let's cut the president to one term of six years and prohibit him from campaigning for anyone while in office.
Of course we're asking our legislatures to do this to themselves so I doubt that it will never happen. The only shot of it actually happening would be if we grandfathered those currently in office. If that happened it could take many years before the system is in full effect.