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

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

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 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!

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!!!!

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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!

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

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?

AMEN!!

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!

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

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.

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 -

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!

Again – not the founding fathers that put this in the constitution. That was the 20th century congress that did that.

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!

I completely agree and am willing to put a number on it. $7,200 a year. That is how much the Texas State Congress makes. Oklahoma has enacted term limits of 12 years and according to the governor, The state is doing much better than it had previously.

I agree, all elected officials should have term limits, max 2 terms, no more.

here here. i agree. how can any congressman be serious about proposing this bill. just curious, but isn’t this how Julius Caesar became the Proconsul/dictator of Rome?

Well all of them stopped at two (or less) terms. The only exception was FDR who was elected for 4 (although only served a tiny bit of the 4th one). Washington refused to run for a third term (although he almost certainly would have won) – that set the precedent for 2 terms.

Very interesting timing on this bill. Democratic majority in congress, democratic president, democratic author of the bill and very little on the news. Amazing how many Kool-Aid drinkers are in America and in Congress. Keep presidential term limits and add congressional limits!

Pro is the opposite of Con
A fact the is clearly seen
If PROgress means move forward
Then what does CONgress mean?