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In 2014, Arkansas state legislators used misleading ballot language to trick Arkansas voters into gutting the state’s term limits law. Now the same politicians behind that scheme — which called dumping term limits “ethics reform” — have been busted for bribery. Arkansas State Representative Micah Neal pled guilty last week to taking $38,000 in bribes from two non-profit
U.S. Term Limits (USTL), the leader in the national movement to limit terms for politicians, today called on Congress to pass the Cruz-DeSantis resolution for a congressional term limits amendment. The resolution matches President-Elect Trump’s proposed limits of three terms in the House and two terms in the Senate. “President-Elect Trump, President Obama, Speaker Ryan
People sometimes joke that the ideal term limit is “one in office, one in prison.” Now reality is catching up to the humor. Congressman Chaka Fattah, a 33-year career politician, was just sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. Prosecutors are calling Fattah’s crimes “a white collar crime spree” involving plenty of corruption. Worst of
Representative Ron DeSantis and Senator Ted Cruz, two signers of the U.S. Term Limits pledge, committed this week to “drain the swamp” with term limits bills in both chambers of Congress. In an Op-Ed they co-authored in the Washington Post, DeSantis and Cruz wrote that “passing term limits will demonstrate that Congress has actually heard
“I don’t think people want a new direction,” Nancy Pelosi told CBS’s Face the Nation this week. Yes, she really said that. Pelosi has been in Congress for three decades. This year alone, she has seen a historic presidential race, a challenge to her leadership by younger Democrats and a 10 percent approval rating for
Seemingly overnight, Congressional term limits are back on the front-burner, with President-elect Donald Trump calling a Constitutional Amendment a priority for his first 100 days. Trump has done his homework. In his call for Congressional term limits, he has cited the specific terms called for in the existing U.S. Term Limits amendment bills of three
by Scott Tillman Michigan State Representative Tom Barrett (R-Potterville) has filed legislation in the State House for a convention to put term limits on Congress. Barrett’s resolution, HJR TT, would allow Michigan to cooperate with 33 other state legislatures to launch a convention, which can then propose a constitutional amendment for term limits. It will be
By: Professor Rob Natelson. Professor Natelson is the Independence Institute’s Senior Fellow in Constitutional Jurisprudence and heads the Institute’s Article V Information Center. Advocates for term limits want to amend the Constitution to add them. Their most common argument is that restricting how long an elected official may serve will curb special interest influence and
By: Nick Tomboulides An email posted by Wikileaks last week revealed that five-term Arizona Sen. John McCain dodged questions on term limits during his final campaign for president. When asked if term limits were an effective resolution to an ineffective Congress, McCain defended career politicians as “irreplaceable” and said the political process would fix itself.
by Nick Tomboulides A new poll shows that Utah residents by historic margins favor term limits at all levels of government. The survey, conducted by Dan Jones & Associates for UtahPolicy.com, found that 85 percent of Utahns support term limits on the state legislature and Governor, while 88 percent support term limits on members of Congress.
