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Our only focus is term limits on elected officials, particularly the U.S. Congress. Term Limits has millions of advocates, bipartisan support of hundreds of lawmakers, and we have a clear path of what needs to be accomplished. View Our Plan.
Does Congress have term limits? No. U.S. Senators serve 6-year terms and Representatives serve 2-year terms but are eligible for re-election indefinitely.
To eliminate all legal uncertainty and positively impose term limits on the U.S. House and Senate, USTL is fighting to pass our single-subject congressional term limits application in 34 states.
This map contains the latest term limits polling by independent polling agencies commissioned U.S. Term Limits. Nationally, 2021 results show that voters overwhelmingly believe in implementing term limits on members of Congress.
U.S. Senators are elected to six year terms and may be reelected indefinitely. Our proposal in the U.S. Congress is to limit the total amount of time a senator may serve to a lifetime 12-years and house reps to a lifetime of 6-years.
This is a searchable, sortable, filterable list of all active candidates (state and congressional), who have signed the U.S. Term Limits pledge and will cosponsor, vote for and defend the resolution applying for an Article V convention for the sole purpose of enacting term limits on Congress.
Term limits would give people with real world experience the chance to serve and make an impact. Legislative term limits have failed in states where they’ve been adopted – The data shows us that most states where term limits have been passed — like Florida — have very high scores for fiscal health. They are performing well.
The Court decided, in a 5-4 split decision, that citizens are not allowed to term limit their own members of Congress using state laws. They threw out 23 states’ term limits laws in one day. Justice Scalia disagreed, ruling for term limits as part of the dissenting minority.
Missouri state house Rep. Bill Owen (district 131), has committed support for term limits on Congress by signing the term limits convention pledge. The U.S. Term Limits pledge is provided to candidates and members of state legislatures.
Its mission is to get 34 states to apply for an amendment proposal convention specific to term limits on Congress. Connecticut state senate candidate, Stephen King (district 4), has committed support for term limits on Congress by signing the term limits convention pledge.