If the President of the United States and the Mayor of New York City can only serve so many terms consecutively, then so should our powerful and influential members of the United States Senate.

I agree that the key word is CONSECUTIVELY. Must be at least a 1 term gap before potential re election

two four year terms maybe… not two six year terms.

They also shouldn’t be allowed to run for the other “House” once they’ve fulfilled term limit obligations.

Here are some suggested amendments:

1. Select them by jury duty

2. If, after one term, selected representative is unpopular with his or her constituency, they can remove the representative by public referendum. Otherwise, representative would continue serving to full term limit.

3. All selected representatives would have to use a universally agreed upon set of tools for polling their constituencies on every bill, and would have to follow their majority’s collective “yea” or “nay”, up or down vote upon peril of being subjected to amendment 2 above.

4. This would necessarily replace traditional voting for a person with mass polling for a bill, so there would have to be a strict set of procedures and highly secured technology for garnering such frequent polling, and sufficient transparency so that these polls could not (easily) be compromised, corrupted, etc., by powerful interest groups, corporations, PACs, etc. An ongoing refinement of this process would be required.

I think I would have to add as follows:

5) Each representative would have to hold at least 4 “town hall” style meetings with constituency every year.

6) All representatives will be subject to any and all laws passed by the congress. If the law is good enough for your district, it’s good enough for you.

7) Any money a representative makes while in office (as a direct result of their job) that is aside from there congressional payroll will be taxed at a rate of 110 %.

The list can go on and on……..

I would say to a certain limit on taxing additional income… I’d say if they make an additional 50k outside of their Congressional Payroll, then they would be subject to an additional tax on a scale that increases as they make more starting at 25% and capping out at 110%. That additional tax would be taken directly out of their congressional payroll.

I’d say that they also shouldn’t be eligible to receive retirement pension or health benefits once their term in office is concluded.

There is also the issue of pension(s) and other benefits. I believe GOVERNMENT (elected or appointed) should have the same long term benefits (liability) that private employees receive. I am not in support of life time benefits OR Double/Tripple dipping benefits based on a “short” term of service.

I’d rather see 1 term in the Senate and 3 terms in Congress. Six years in both sides of Congress.

Section 3 needs to be changed so that ALL individuals in Congress are subject to this amendment at the end of the term after the amendment is ratified!

We need a return to the “Citizen Legislator” and bring an end to career politicians. There should be no Congressional retirement program except for a free ride home!