Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
This resolution proposes a constitutional amendment that would cap how long people can serve in Congress: no one could be elected to the House after serving three terms and no one could be elected or appointed to the Senate after serving two terms. It specifies that filling a vacancy counts as a term if the person serves more than a set number of years for that chamber. If both chambers of Congress approve the identical amendment, it must then be sent to the states for ratification and does not go to the President. Any service before the amendment is ratified would not count toward the new limits.
A constitutional amendment requires approval by two-thirds of both the House and Senate and then ratification by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states; this resolution sets a seven-year deadline for state ratification. Proposed constitutional amendments are not presented to the President.
A proposed constitutional amendment that would limit service in Congress: Representatives may serve at most three terms, Senators at most two terms.
Partial terms count as a full term if they exceed specified durations.
Terms served before ratification are excluded.
Constitutional amendments face very high procedural and state‑ratification bars; amendment reducing incumbency is unlikely to clear supermajorities and three‑fourths of states.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill clearly and directly proposes specific constitutional term limits with a standard ratification clause and some vacancy-counting rules, but it lacks finer-grained enforcement, administrative, and edge-case detail that would clarify how the amendment would operate in practice after ratification.
Progressives emphasize loss of expertise and increased lobbyist influence.
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Progressives emphasize loss of expertise and increased lobbyist influence.
Likely wary or opposed.
Supports reducing entrenched power but worries term limits remove experienced legislators needed for complex policy and protections.
Prefers accompanying reforms like campaign finance and voting access to address incumbency.
Mixed but open.
Sees legitimacy in limiting entrenched incumbency yet recognizes value of institutional knowledge.
Will weigh transition details and unintended governance costs before supporting.
Generally favorable.
Views term limits as restoring citizen legislature, reducing career-politician incentives, and constraining federal government entrenchment.
Likely to champion passage.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
Constitutional amendments face very high procedural and state‑ratification bars; amendment reducing incumbency is unlikely to clear supermajorities and three‑fourths of states.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives emphasize loss of expertise and increased lobbyist influence.
Constitutional amendments face very high procedural and state‑ratification bars; amendment reducing incumbency is unlikely to clear superma…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill clearly and directly proposes specific constitutional term limits with a standard ratification clause and some vacancy-counting rules, but it lacks finer-grained enfo…
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