TERM LIMITS FOR CONGRESS -- YAY OR NAY?

[HairOfTheDog]

Members of the House of Representatives serve two-year terms and are considered for reelection every even year.

Senators serve six-year terms and elections to the Senate are staggered over even years so that only about ¹⁄₃ of the Senate is up for reelection during any election.

U.S. Term Limits (USTL), based out of Washington, D.C., advocates for term limits at all levels of government. Since it was established in the early 1990s, USTL has assisted in enacting and defending term limits on state legislatures in 15 states as well as Congressional term limits in 23 states. https://www.termlimits.org/about/

Then, in 1995, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton that states may not individually enact term limits for their members. http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/23/us/hig...wanted=all

Thus, imposing federally-enforceable hard term-limits on Congress would likely require a Constitutional amendment.