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Question for Opponents of Congressional Term Limits:

K46620 @K46620 (1986) • United States 26 May 11

Question for Opponents of Congressional Term Limits: [i][b]Do you support presidential term limits (22nd amendment)? If so, why term limit only the President? Shouldn't we treat Congress and the President the same...

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Term Limits for all Elected Offices

bobmnu @bobmnu (8157) • United States 20 Nov 09

Should we have a Constitutional Amendement that limits the number of terms that a person could serve in Congress? Right now we have Power Brokers and not representives in Congress. How many member of Congress have held a real job?...

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Someone finally got a clue!

lilwonders @lilwonders456 (8214) • United States 12 Nov 09

Some congressmen (just a handful) have proposed a constitutional amendment that would put term limits on how long someone can serve in congress and the house. About time they realized what a problem it was not to have it. THey...

about time someone did it

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Presidential term limitations, is 4 years enough?

afarrell1 @afarrell1 (258) • United States 8 Oct 09

According to the AP Russia has just passed a law extending the length of the Russian Presidency from four to six years. The vote was 392/57! Do you think that would be good for American presidents too? Instead of being stuck...

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Term limits for Senate

wlee9696 @wlee9696 (595) • United States 26 Sep 09

I am for setting term limits for the Senate. We have too many people who get in office and stay there forever. It stagnates the Senate. Also we need to get rid of the policy that you get your Senate salary for life even after you...

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Will the 22nd amendment be abolished and term limits ended?

dragon54u @dragon54u (31633) • United States 1 May 09

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=hj111-5 Democrat Jose Serano has proposed once again that term limits be abolished. That would include the office of the president. Evidently, he's tried to get this passed a number...

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Congressional Term Limiits?

EliFromMN @EliFromMN (53) • United States 1 Apr 09

Every night I watch the news and they always have some congressman or senator that has served for 40 years on there running there mouth. If you think about it, over a 40 year carrer in congress, don't you think that they've been...

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Protect Our Constitution

laglen @laglen (19759) • United States 22 Feb 09

According to OpenCongress.org, this bill was introduced January 6th. Nobody is talking about this. - [i]111th CONGRESS 1st Session H. J. RES. 5 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal...

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Venezuala thinking of getting rid of term limits

lilwonders @lilwonders456 (8214) • United States 18 Dec 08

The Venezuala government is thinking about getting rid of term limits. That would mean that Hugo Chavez could run for re-election indefinatley. What do you think about this idea?

may get rid of htem

Here's a novel idea...two year term limits on ALL public offices!

dragon54u @dragon54u (31633) • United States 1 Aug 08

You may ask why such short terms but if you're sick of corruption in public offices, here's my reasoning. Two years isn't enough time for someone to make the contacts that lead to corruption. Not enough time to make buddies with...

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Term Limits

worldwise1 @worldwise1 (14885) • United States 5 Oct 07

Politics are very much in the forefront of current events lately, and this prompted me to try and think of ways the system could be improved. I have a problem with the number of terms our Congressmen and Representatives are...

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