I can't believe this either. If this bill passes, its because of the representatives and not the people.

2 terms for any president is enuff already!

Exactly!!! Tighter limits and less salary and benefits!! How can they serve us if they don't live like us?

Actually, FDR was elected the first time in 1932, he was elected to his third term in 1940, one year prior to our involvement in WWII. Also, he wasn't really that successful in restoring the nation during the depression. There were several members of his cabinet that complained that after all the money they had spent, all they had succeeded in doing was extending the drepression. But you are right that the 22nd Amendment was about preventing a fiasco like that from happening again by returning to the principles of the Founding Fathers.

Ah! Here it is AGAIN!!! It has been proposed over and over again. Quit wasting money and time on this. The people do not want this!

You're exactly right...we are closer now than we should be to the Democrat Party Kingdom of the Inner City of the United States of America. We need to preserve a few of the checks and balances against a monarchy or dictatorship that our founding fathers gave us.

No, the problem here is more that without House and Senate term limits, we create career politicians. If a representative is voted out, they can go run for another position elsewhere simply by moving their residence. If we have term limits, it allows us to get fresh representation from ALL parties and prevents 10 term House members.

Re: The previous commenter. No, the Constitution says right up front that no state religion shall be established.

However I agree with limiting each president to 2 4-yr terms, and simplifying the tax code, and Congressional salary raises should be voted on by their constituents.

Also Roosevelt did not end the Depression, his policies prolonged it. Very good argument for term limits. Read Amity Schlaes "The Forgotten Man."

Perhaps some history would help me understand this discussion. Didn't one of our founding fathers who served as president decline to serve another term because he felt no one man should hold himself higher than the republic he represented?

The Congress should be term limited to 4 years and salary cut to the volunteer median income.

The simple fact that this piece of legislation was even drafted is ridiculous. Congress should also have a term limit, as well as all representative salaries abolished. You are representing the American people, not politicizing to keep your job.

This is absolutely insane...why is this even on the table???

I agree, this shouldn't be an amendment, there should be an amendment to limit the amount of term for all federal officials.

The reason Congress even proposed and passed the 22nd Amendment was to uphold the traditions/teachings of Our Founding Fathers to prevent any one person from attaining the status and/or power of a king. This is a republic, from latin 'res publica' which means the 'public thing' (where thing translates to the law), where we live by the "rule of law". Given the right circumstances, it would be very easy for one person to become a dictator. FDR had four terms because he was popular, and had been successful in restoring the nation during the Depression (if not for WW2 he may have only gotten two terms). This legislation will be like a can of worms, and will only lead our country astray towards a democracy (majority rule) from what it truly is and meant to be... A Republic!

RIGHT ON! All government 'officials' are acting as if they are royalty and we are too stupid to be citizens--we are the serfs of their kingdom.

The incredible disregard for the wisdom of the founding fathers in this bill astounds me. Given the timing and the sponsor's party affiliation, it is a clear attempt to consolidate power and establish a Democratic party Kingdom led by Barack Obama for the next 20+ years.

Agreed I believe in term limits for everyone. Our forefathers did not intend for politicians to hold office for 20 or 30 years passing legislation that would make them rich. Most of these people who serve in office now are very wealthy and only a few were that way when they started. Kind of makes you wonder huh?

I totally agree with you! That is exactly what they want: serfs and lords!! We don't need this bill to make them our king or dictator!!!!

Jefferson said, We did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction.
I believe that the House should be non-elected picked from the tax payers as you are when you are on a jury. Senators should be elected to no more than 4 (5 year terms). The President should be elected to no more than 2 (4 year terms) and the Vice President should be the person he/she ran against.

What a foolish piece of legislation... no matter what your politics, Obama has not even taken office...

do not pass this bill. the founding fathers were and continue to be smarter and right with the CONSTITUTION of the U.S.A. all polititians of now and recent memory should not try to mess with that. how foolish to initiate this bill. you get a -

Not only should the limit not be removed there should be term limits on congress. It shouldn't be possible for someone to be in office for 15, 20 or 25 years. They loose site of what they are there for. This is why we have some of the problems we have today. The average citizen's voice no longer counts which was proven by all the bailouts. We couldn't vote someone out of congress if we wanted too. Look what Murtha said about his own constituents and still was re-elected!

Kind of like the Kennedy dynasty? You would think that with all that has happened with that family over the years, and with the two that have been in the spot light recently (One is an alcoholic with a brain tumor and the other is a dunce) that they might have gotten the message that God doesn't want them in politics. Too bad they can't stop breeding!

AMEN!!

My exact thought

The term limits for Presidents should not be repealed. They were implemented for a reason. Our President, as the Commander-In-Chief should be required to have at least 4 years of active military service before they can run for office. Our politicians should be required to read "The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States." Our founding fathers constructed the Constitution of the United States the way they did for particular reasons. In other words, Americans can't even obey ten simple, easy to learn laws that God gave us in which our laws are base upon. And this is a Christian Nation stated by our founding fathers. How do politicians believe we can obey by 66,000 plus laws on the books now? Some of them can't even do it. It's time to get back to the basics. Term-limits should be placed on all elected officials-local, state, and federal-of two 4-year terms and their salary shall be based on the military officer's rank pay-grade structure with increases based on what they vote for the military and social security, and if there are no term limits, then our elected officials shall not retire until they have 20 years or more of service. I believe in a flat income tax. If every man, women and child-including politicians-that makes a salary, pays a flat tax of say 7-9%, the government would see a considerable increase in revenue. If a person makes $10,000 or $1,000,000, they receive a post card from the IRS stating what they should have paid. The key is NO LOOPHOLES. Billions of dollars can be saved by reducing the paperwork by the IRS. Also, our elected officials shall be required to live in apartments while in Washington D.C. that way they will have an incentive to return to their residence in their home states while in closed session which would allow for salaries to be reduced saving taxpayers billions of dollars. Think about it. Politicians work for the people who put them in office.

Years ago I agreed with this. Reagan, okay. Clinton, okay. But I'm not sure democracy itself could have survived a 3rd GWB term. So much power in so few hands needs to be regularly passed on. If the policies are good for the people, the people will vote to continue those policies. John McCain failed because those policies failed. Had Rovian politics had more terms available to wield the cult of personality that was GWB, we would be continuing the slide towards global isolation via ostracism.

The term limits on the Presidency was formulated and passed with good sound reasoning. The fact that the House and Senate terms were left out was unfortunate, for if they would have included them we wouldn't be in the mess we find ourselves in at the present time. Chris Dodd and Barney Frank wouldn't have been able to be the facilitators of the financial scam that was Fannie and Freddie. History repeats itself year after year because the career politicians are corrupt and everyone inside the beltway has been assimilated by the corrupt collective. If there were term limits and reduced perks and no retirement for politicians, we would see a much better class of people serving the nation, not a bunch of self-serving corrupt thieves.

um.. no.

They're truly not 'ruining our livelihoods'.. or any of that other dribble. Try to maintain some form of positivity.. our lives are far from ruined.. geez.

Like Bush could really get a third term, or even the Republican nomination.