Term Limits

First and foremost.  I would love to see the United States Constitution amended to add term limits to members of Senate, House of Representatives, and all Federal Judges, including Supreme Court Justices.  My recommendations are as follows:

• Senators, Two six year terms
• House of Representatives, Five two year terms
• Federal Judges, 15 years
• Supreme Court Justices, 20 years.  Chief Justices, five years (inclusive in the twenty year limit)

For members of Congress, once their time in office has expired, they cannot run for the office they once held again, ever.  A representative at the end of his ten years could run for Senate, and vice versa.  The same for Federal Judges, they can move up to the next higher court and their time would reset at the commencement of them taking their new seat.

 

It would be nice to see some new faces every few years in the Congress, to bring a fresh perspective to this country.  It seems every election cycle challenging candidates promises big changes and most of the time end of falling well short of expectations.  I blame that more on the political party's more than the candidates themselves. 

 

Its time for the elected members of this country to be held accountable to the electorate.  We have too many career politicians, let's see some new faces in Washington.

 

 

--gfo