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Term Limits on Members of Congress April 11, 2024: Cong. Rec., Vol. 170, pp. S5188-S5189, POM-144 ("House Joint Resolution No. 5") V Louisiana Term Limits on Members of Congress May 13, 2024 ("Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 2") V North Carolina Term Limits on Members of Congress December 2, 2024 ("House Joint Resolution No. 151") V
Since 2016, U.S. Term Limits has called for an Article V Convention with the limited purpose of imposing term limits on Congress. [106] Resolutions calling for such a convention have been passed by the state legislatures of Florida, [107] Alabama, [108] Missouri, [109] West Virginia, [110] Wisconsin, [111] Oklahoma, [112] and Tennessee. [113]
U.S. Term Limits is promoting a convention to propose amendments under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, focused specifically on a term limits amendment. [3] [4] [5] Resolutions calling for such a convention have been passed by the state legislatures of Florida, [6] Alabama, [7] Missouri, [8] West Virginia, [9] Wisconsin, [10] Oklahoma, [11 ...
At a convention, the states could propose amendments to establish term limits for federal elected representatives and members of the swamp.Our federal representatives have refused to exercise any ...
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three ...
In the context of the politics of the United States, term limits restrict the number of terms of office an officeholder may serve. At the federal level, the president of the United States can serve a maximum of two four-year terms, with this being limited by the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution that came into force on February 27, 1951.
Under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, Congress is required to hold a constitutional convention if two-thirds of state legislatures (34 states) call for one.
Missouri whose House of Representatives on April 21, 2016, approved House Concurrent Resolution No. 57 ("an application to Congress for the calling of an Article V convention of states to propose certain amendments to the United States Constitution which places limits on the federal government"); the concurrent resolution then went to the ...