Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of consecutive terms that a Member of Congress may serve.
H.J.Res. 32 proposes a constitutional amendment to limit how many consecutive terms U.S. Congress members can serve. It would restrict Senators to two consecutive terms and Representatives to six consecutive terms before they must wait for a full congressional cycle to run again. The amendment excludes short-term vacancies (under 3 years for Senators, 1 year for Representatives) from counting toward these limits, and existing terms before ratification wouldn’t count. This proposal, if ratified by 38 states within seven years, would directly affect current and future members of Congress who approach these term limits.
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Introduced Feb 9, 2023
Last action Feb 9, 2023
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Feb 9, 2023
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Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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Feb 9, 2023
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Claudia Tenney
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