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To be a senator, a person must be aged 30 or over. To be a Representative, a person must be aged 25 or older. This is specified in the U.S. Constitution. Most states in the U.S. also have age requirements for the offices of Governor, State Senator, and State Representative.[74]
Many youth rights groups view current age of candidacy requirements as unjustified age discrimination. [63] Occasionally people who are younger than the minimum age will run for an office in protest of the requirement or because they do not know that the requirement exists.
To qualify for the 2010 election ballot unaffiliated US Congressional candidates are required to obtain as many as 22,544 signatures and an average of 18,719 signatures required for access to the 2010 election ballot. [45] North Dakota requires 7,000 petition signatures to create a new political party and nominate a slate of candidates for ...
For senators elected to a regular session, the starting date is the date on which the new Congress convened. From 1789 to 1935, this is March 4 (with the previous Congress ending on March 3); from 1937 onward, this is January 3. For senators appointed to a vacancy or elected in a special election, the starting date represents their swearing-in ...
Members are not required to live in the districts they represent, but they traditionally do. [25] The age and citizenship qualifications for representatives are less than those for senators. The constitutional requirements of Article I, Section 2 for election to Congress are the maximum requirements that can be imposed on a candidate. [26]
The 22nd Amendment — passed by Congress in 1947 after Franklin Delano Roosevelt won four terms in office — currently bars Trump and all two-term holders of the Oval Office from running for a ...
The email cited none of those for-cause requirements that Congress required. “Rather than hamper the president’s substantive regulatory agenda, the OSC’s independence protects and assures ...
In March 2009, Bill Posey introduced legislation, H.R. 1503, in the U.S. House of Representatives to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971. The amendment would have required candidates for the Presidency "to include with the [campaign] committee's statement of organization a copy of the candidate's birth certificate" plus other supporting documentation. [8]