ENGLISH FOR SENATE POSITION PAPER ON:
Congressional Term Limits and
Mandatory Retirement
Some states have term limits for their Congressional respresentatives,
others don't. Because leadership roles in the Congress are based upon
seniority, states with term limits are at a disadvantage compared to
states without term limits because their influence in Congress is
diminished. Seniority governs which members become committee
chairmen and Congressional leaders. Commitee chairmen control
which legislation gets introduced, discussed and brought to the floor
for
consideration.
Recently, there have been instances when aged members of Congress have
had to be carried onto the floor to conduct discussion and other
spectacles of obvious infirmity which calls into question the fitness
and competence of the aged members to function intelligently and
rationally when conducting the nation's affairs.
I propose that a Constitutional Amendment be introduced for
consideration that would limit combined service in one or both houses
of the Congress to 25 years total, with a mandatory retirement age of
80.
If the Catholic church requires resignation of bishops at
age 75 and cardinals at age 80, why shouldn't the Congress of the
United States also? (also see the Public Funding of Elections Issue
paper).
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Designed by Imad-ad-Dean,
Inc.