Term limits is on the move this week. In Oklahoma, the House of Representatives passed our bipartisan House Joint Resolution 1032 by a margin of 59 to 34. Now we head over to the State Senate for a vote. Make sure to call your Oklahoma state senators and ask them to support our resolution. In Tennessee, we’ve had some great success. House Joint Resolution 5 passed 66 to 26. Now, this one also heads to the state senate, so make sure to call your state senators in Tennessee.
Term limits we’re on the move. This is Holly Robichaud with Breaking News on Term Limits.
[music]As you know, we’re working hard in the states to bypass Congress in order to get congressional term limits. As I mentioned in the opening, Oklahoma has passed the resolution in the House of Representatives. Now, the resolution sponsored by Jon Echols is headed to the state Senate. Make sure to call your state senators and urge them to vote for it.
In the volunteer State of Tennessee, the House of Representatives also passed House Resolution 5 sponsored by Chris Todd by a margin of 66 to 26. Now, that resolution is also headed to the state senate. Once again, call your state senators. In Tennessee, our state chair, who is the Knoxville county mayor, Glenn Jacobs, also known to millions as WWE’s Kane will be joining us on this program to talk about term limits. So you’ll make sure you wanna listen next week.
Did you hear the news coming out of Washington DC this week? As I’ve mentioned before, we have house joint resolution 11 filed by representative Ralph Norman. Well, we’re now up to 88 co-sponsors. This week, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Chuck Edwards of North Carolina, Claudia Tenney of New York, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington have joined on as co-sponsors of the legislation. We’re excited to have them on board.
Now, house speaker Kevin McCarthy has promised us a vote, so we need you to take action and go to termlimits.com/McCarthy and urge Kevin McCarthy to have our vote on term limits for Congress. In DC, we’re not only making progress on the House side, but we’re also making progress on the Senate side. We’re proud to announce this week that Senator Rand Paul has co-sponsored Senator Ted Cruz’s Senate joint resolution 2 calling for congressional term limits. Thank you, senator Rand Paul for having the courage.
Do you know what you get when you don’t have term limits? You get corrupt politicians, that’s why every week we have a corrupt politician of the week. This week, former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder makes our list. Householder was found guilty on Thursday by a federal jury for participating in a racketeering conspiracy that involved nearly $61 million in bribes and $1.3 billion bailout for two struggling nuclear power plants. Householder received a $500,000 bribe through his tax-exempt social welfare organization, which he used to pay down credit card debt and repair a Florida property. Enough is enough. It’s time for term limits.
Now, I wanna update you on one of the corrupt politicians of the week we previously mentioned, former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. Madigan was the longest and has the record for being the longest serving leader of any state in the entire country. Talk about needing term limits. Well, Madigan has unlimited amounts of money in his campaign account, and as of last week, he spent $8 million defending himself against corruption charges. In Illinois, he crafted the law that he can spend unlimited amounts of campaign contributions on his legal defense fund. See why we need term limits?
We elect people to Congress and state legislatures to be our voice. Well, that doesn’t seem to be happening in North Dakota. The State House this week passed a resolution that would eliminate term limits for the legislature and the governor, which was just passed by a wide margin by the people of North Dakota, in last November. In that election, over 150,000 voters supported the resolution calling for term limits on the legislature and the governor. It passed by a margin of 63% to 36. Now, the legislature is trying to overturn the will of the people. That’s not what we want. People want term limits. And it’s unfortunate that the North Dakota’s legislature is not listening to the people.
Have enough of politicians not listening to you? We need you to get involved so we can make congressional term limits a reality. We have a lot going on, whether it’s down in Congress or whether it’s across the states, we need you to help out. So please go to termlimits.com and get involved today and be sure to share this program with your friends every week. This is Holly Robichaud with Term Limits Breaking news. We’ll be back next week.