the founders created a system, of only 2 years for each person of the house, want to remove them vote him out!
the senate was a different matter, the senators were picked by the legislature of states, ..it has been ONLY after the 17th amendment you have long term serving senators.
repeal the 17th to put government back in balance
How do you feel about term limits for Senate and Congress?
one thing i didn't point out before, repeal the 17th...and you cripple lobbying in Washington.
1.Lobbyists would just focus their attention of those who can "appoint" senators.
2.I would rather elected officials be beholden to the people not other elected officials.
3.There were problems before the 17th amendment.
OTJ training every two years makes so much sense.
A 3-year term makes more sense--since nothing happens in the first or last year of the 2-year term .
I support term limits. I truly think too long in office makes one complacent, unmotivated, possibly corrupt, and no longer "fresh".
5 terms for Congress
2 terms for US Senator
I'm torn on this topic. I understand the rationale but I also feel that people should be able to elect who they want.
Are for then the removal of term limits on the president?
1. the legislature appoints the senators, ...are lobbyist going to go to every state, and lobby over say 1000 people?..they could but very hard to do.
2 by having states elect the senator .power is again divided, retuning america to a republican form of government, ..which has much less special interest, because it is more difficult to lobby, because the senate and the house interest, are different.
I could care less who pushed it.A broken clock can right twice a day.3 the 17th amendment was pushed by the progressives of that era, because they favor democracy, and democracy is the road to socialism--Karl Marx
1.Companies have deep pockets. Assuming that all these senators come up for appointment at the same time the lobbyists would most certainly have the money to do so.
2.Left wingers are going to appoint other left wingers and right wingers are going to appoint other right wingers.Power is not going to be divided.
I could care less who pushed it.A broken clock can right twice a day.
How do you feel about term limits for Senate and Congress?
senators are staggered, class 1,2,3 every two years elected
senators work for the state legislators, they are concerned how states powers.
senators are staggered, class 1,2,3 every two years elected
senators work for the state legislators, they are concerned how states powers.
In recent history, at least back to Noot Gingrich in 1990 and 1994,How do you feel about term limits for Senate and Congress?
So that means lobbyists do not have to coerce all the senators.
Only when their term is almost up.
to the bolded... that's how it was intended to be, but it's not how it is.
Senators work for whatever party they belong to, no one else....and the state legislators are officially irrelevant to Senators( a lovely byproduct of the 17th amendment)
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