Term Limits Stalled in Congress

A proposal popular with nearly nine out of ten Americans is sitting on the desk of a Congress that has every reason to keep it there.
President Trump has continued his longtime call for congressional term limits, specifically proposing a constitutional amendment that would limit House members to three two-year terms and Senate members to two six-year terms. That structure would cap House service at six years and Senate service at twelve. Analysis from Quorum found that if the proposed limits had been applied, roughly 73 percent of recent House members would have been ineligible to serve. Current numbers are higher. About 85 percent of today’s House has now served three terms or more. In the Senate, 74 senators are currently in their second term or longer, and 49 have served three or more. Members of the 119th Congress have introduced 449 different bills referencing term limits this session, yet not a single one has cleared committee. A Pew Research poll found that 87 percent of Americans support congressional term limits regardless of political party.
The math behind the resistance is simple. The people most affected by the change are the people who would have to vote for it. Asking a 36-year senator to vote himself off the gravy train is asking water to run uphill. That is not a partisan accusation. It is human nature.
Scripture has always been suspicious of unchecked power. The Bible repeatedly warns leaders to remember they serve, not rule, and that the higher a person climbs, the harder the fall when humility is replaced by entrenchment.
“Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.” — Proverbs 16:18
Public office was never meant to be a career. It was meant to be a season of service handed back to the next generation. Senators who came to Washington in the 1980s should not still be writing laws for grandchildren who were not yet born when they took office. Term limits are not a Republican idea or a Democratic idea. They are a humility idea. And they are overwhelmingly an American one.
The Founders served, then went home. So should their heirs.
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