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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.
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.
Term limits would transfer power away from the entrenched establishment in both parties and back to the American people, whose beliefs and aspirations are viewed cynically by Washington elites. Here’s the good news, though: we can still term limit Congress despite this roadblock. Let’s walk through the steps.
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.
How do you get term limits on Congress? Term limits must be added as an amendment to the Constitution. A 1995 Supreme Court decision (U.S. Term Limits v Thornton) declared that states could not “individually” impose term limits on their own federal delegation through state statute.
Congress Members Who Voted Against Term Limits on 9/28/2023. First Name. Last Name. Congressional District. Phone. Adam. Schiff. California’s 30th District. (202) 225-4176.