Topics in the News: Term Limits
Tom Steyer on Term Limits:
(Health Care Jan 14, 2020)
Term limits will break stranglehold on low taxes for rich
We're spending way too much because corporations own the system and we're not negotiating against those corporations. And we've given tax cuts to the richest Americans and the biggest corporations for decades. That's all this is.
We have corporations who are having their way with the American people and people are suffering. In order to break this, we're going to have to break the corporate stranglehold. That's why I'm for term limits.
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Source: 7th Democrat primary debate, on eve of Iowa caucus
Tom Steyer on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Nov 20, 2019)
I'm the only candidate who'll talk about term limits
What I've done is to try to push power down to the America people, to take power away from the corporations who've bought our government. And I'm talking now about structural reform in Washington, D.C.: Term limits.
If you want bold change in the United States, you're going to have to have new and different people in charge. I'm the only person on this stage who will talk about term limits.
Vice President Biden won't. Senator Sanders won't. Even Mayor Pete Buttigieg will not talk about term limits and structural change. I would let the American people pass laws themselves through direct democracy.
It's time to push the power back to the people and away from D.C.
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Source: November Democratic primary debate in Atlanta
Tom Steyer on Term Limits:
(Principles & Values Nov 20, 2019)
Coalitions of ordinary American citizens beat corporations
I'm different from everybody else on this stage. I know that the government in Washington, D.C., is broken. I know that it's been purchased by corporations. And I've spent a decade putting together coalitions of ordinary American citizens to beat
those corporations. I'm the only one on this stage who's willing to talk about structural change in Washington itself, term limits, that if we're going to make bold changes, we're going to need new and different people in charge.
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Source: November Democratic primary debate in Atlanta
Tom Steyer on Term Limits:
(Corporations Oct 15, 2019)
Break the corporate stranglehold of our government
Every single one of these conversations is about broken government. It's about drug companies buying the government and getting what they want. It's about the gun manufacturers buying the government and getting what they want.
We need to break the corporate stranglehold on our government. I've put forward actual structural changes, including term limits, a national referendum, end the idea that corporations are people, and make it a lot easier to vote.
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Source: October Democratic CNN/NYTimes Primary debate
Tom Steyer on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Oct 10, 2019)
12-year Congressional term limits for generational shift
Q: Should the Equality Act apply to sexual orientation but not gender identity, as some in Congress are seeking?STEYER: What I have done for the last 10 years is to try and organize Americans at the grassroots to push for justice throughout the
society. So in this case, I understand that there may be people in the Congress who will push for the wrong thing, and it seems to me the only real way to push back against them is to go to the grassroots and get the people, their constituents, to push.
I've also talked about putting in term limits for congresspeople and senators. One of the things that's true in the United States about attitudes towards the LGBTQ community is that there's been a generational shift. And if we, in fact, push through
what I've talked about, that people in D.C. find very awkward and unnerving, 12-year term limits for congresspeople and senators, we'd get a wave of new blood into the Congress of the United States.
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Source: CNN LGBT Town Hall 2020
Bernie Sanders on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Jun 29, 2019)
Rotate judges on Supreme Court, like term limits
Sanders's "rotating judges" idea actually makes some sense. At the Democratic debate, the moderators never raised how to handle the Supreme Court's emboldened conservative majority.They came closest to tackling the issue in an exchange about Roe v.
Wade and what the candidates would do to protect abortion rights if it were overturned. Sanders replied by saying he opposed adding additional justices to the bench, a solution several other candidates have proposed. "I do not believe in packing the
court," Sanders said. But "I do believe that constitutionally we have the ability to rotate judges to other courts."
At a forum in April, Sanders offered up a similar proposal. "What may make sense is, if not term limits, then rotating judges to the
appeals court as well. Letting them get out of the Supreme Court and bringing in new blood." The proposal is constitutionally dubious and might require an amendment, but it's not without merit if it gets rid of corrosive confirmation battles.
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Source: The New Republic magazine on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Beto O`Rourke on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Jun 5, 2019)
Term limits for Congress and the Supreme Court
A key part of O'Rourke's voting rights plan would be to set term limits for politicians, to give young people incentive to vote for new candidates. He proposes limiting membership of the US House of Representatives and Senate to 12 years, and requiring
Supreme Court justices--currently appointed for life--to step down after 18 years. Those moves would require a constitutional amendment, which requires a 2/3 majority vote in both the House and Senate, and ratification by 3/4 of state legislatures.
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Source: Reuters news service on 2020 Democratic primary
Pete Buttigieg on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Mar 19, 2019)
Need to depoliticize Supreme Court
We need some kind of structural reform that makes the court less political. We can't go on where every time there's a vacancy, there's this apocalyptic ideological battle. One idea that I think is interesting is, you have 15 members, but only ten
of them are appointed in the political fashion. Five of them can only be seated by unanimous agreement of the other ten. There are other ideas that have been floated too about term limits or about rotating justices up from the appellate bench.
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Source: Fox News Sunday 2019 interviews for 2020 Democratic primary
Beto O`Rourke on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Mar 13, 2019)
Supports term limits for Congress
One of O'Rourke's campaign promises was to limit the number of terms he served. Term limits were an issue O'Rourke believed in, but it weakened his hand as a freshman in Congress, where long-term ambition translates to seats on powerful committees.
O'Rourke was initially appointed to the Veterans Affairs Committee. He would come to dislike Washington. O'Rourke tried defining himself as an independent voice in Congress, willing to buck party orthodoxy.
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Source: Joe Hagan in Vanity Fair on 2020 Democratic primary
Beto O`Rourke on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Aug 17, 2018)
Committed to personal term limit for serving in Congress
Q: How can you stay sane and keep your humility if you win?BO: When [my wife] Amy and I were first talking about running for Congress in 2011-2012, we decided that we would do term limits, and not serve more than four years.
In part it was, "I just don't want you to be an ass; I haven't met somebody in this line of work who doesn't become one, that doesn't think that they are so important only they can do it." She's my answer to that. And our kids too.
They bring you back down to earth. They could care less about Ted Cruz or what we are doing in the campaign right now. It's hard to do this with little kids, but it also continuously grounds you and reminds you who you are doing it for.
Whatever you can do to make sure you never take yourself or your situation too seriously, that's the key. And for me it's Amy and the kids who help me with that.
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Source: Austin Chronicle on 2018 Texas Senate race
Xi Jinping on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Feb 26, 2018)
Ended presidential term limits, consolidating power
China moved to end a two-term limit on the Presidency, clearing the way for Xi to rule the country for as long as he, and his peers, can abide. The decision marks the clearest expression of Xi's core beliefs--his impatience with affectations of
liberalism, his belief in the Communist Party's moral superiority, and his unromantic conception of politics as a contest between force and the forced. Decades after Deng Xiaoping warned against "the leadership of a single person,"
China is re-entering a period in which the fortunes of a fifth of humanity hinge on the visions, impulses, and insecurities of a solitary figure. The end of Presidential term limits risks closing a period in
Chinese history, from 2004 to today, when the orderly, institutionalized transfer of power set it apart from other authoritarian states.
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Source: Evan Osnos, "President for Life" in The New Yorker
Xi Jinping on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Feb 26, 2018)
Most serious challenge since the end of the Cold War
Some observers have likened [Xi's unbridled power after ending term limits] to the imperial rule of Vladimir Putin, but the similarities are limited. In matters of diplomacy and war, Putin wields mostly the weapons of the weak: hackers in American
politics, militias in Ukraine, obstructionism in the United Nations. It is the arsenal of a declining power. Xi, by contrast, is ascendant. On the current trajectory, Xi's economy and military will pose a far greater challenge to American leadership
than Putin's. Xi, in his first five years in power, dismantled what are known in China as the qian guize (the "unwritten rules"), which allowed people to bribe their way to higher office or to skirt the edges of censorship. Now he is throwing
out the written rules, and to the degree that he applies that approach to the international system--including rules on trade, arms, and access to international waters--America faces its most serious challenge since the end of the Cold War.
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Source: Evan Osnos, "President for Life" in The New Yorker
Beto O`Rourke on Term Limits:
(Principles & Values Mar 29, 2017)
Supports Congress term limits; leaving House after 6 years
U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat and ex-punk rocker who pulled a stunning upset to win his House seat six years ago, plans to declare his candidacy for the Senate seat held by Ted Cruz. O'Rourke's fledgling campaign has scheduled an announcement in
El Paso, his hometown. He has traveled heavily in Texas over the last three months making contacts, barely concealing his political plans. "I'm very moved to do it,"
O'Rourke, 44, said in an interview, adding that he had reached the "emotional decision" about his candidacy.O'Rourke is a three-term congressman and, as a rare term-limits supporter among Democrats, likely would have been around for just one
additional term in the House. He drew thousands of livestream followers earlier this month by making a cross-country, bipartisan auto journey from San Antonio to Washington with U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, R-San Antonio, after a snowstorm canceled flights.
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Source: San Antonio Express-News on 2018 Texas Senate race
Jesse Ventura on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Aug 2, 2016)
I believe there should be term limits
I actually had experience in politics prior to running. I just decided not to make a career out of it because I believe there should be term limits.
But that experience shouldn't really matter in the first place because Minnesota's state constitution states that no prior experience is necessary to run for office.
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Source: Time magazine on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Rand Paul on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Apr 7, 2015)
End the profession of "career politician" with term limits
We have all seen the consequence of long-term incumbencies. Career politicians seem to care more about their career than what is best for their country. We have seen politicians grow more and more out-of-touch with each successive term.
We have all seen the consequence of long-term incumbencies. Career politicians seem to care more about their career than what is best for their country. We have seen politicians grow more and more out-of-touch with each successive term.
It is time to put an end to the profession of "career politician," and impose limits on how many times a member is allowed to seek re-election. As a Senator, I introduced legislation that would limit the amount of time a member of the
US House of Representatives or Senate may serve in office to a maximum of 12-years per chamber.
As President, I will continue to support term limits in the hopes of ensuring that your elected officials act in direct representation of you and your needs
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Source: 2016 presidential campaign website, RandPaul.com, "Issues"
Rand Paul on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Jan 20, 2015)
Term limits would infuse Congress with new ideas
All is not well in America. America is adrift. Something is clearly wrong. America needs many things, but what America desperately needs is new leadership.There is no monopoly on knowledge in Washington. The best thing that could happen is for us--to
once and for all--limit the terms of all politicians. We already limit the President to two terms. I think we should put limits on the terms of Congress and infuse our government with fresh ideas.
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Source: Tea Party response to the 2015 State of the Union address
Rahm Emanuel on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Apr 6, 2014)
My position on term limits is called elections
Q: Your predecessor Mayor Richard Daley was in office for 22 years. What was it like taking over a city when one man had so much control for so long?
EMANUEL: He was a great mayor. There are things he did that I would do differently. He acknowledged
the public was ready for a change.
Q: Do you think someone should be able to be mayor for that long?
EMANUEL: I don't know. My position on term limits is called elections.
Q: Bill Clinton would still be president.
EMANUEL: Well, that is true.
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Source: The New Republic 2014 coverage of 2016 presidential hopefuls
Ted Cruz on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Mar 7, 2014)
End Washington cronyism via Congressional term limits
We need to end the corruption. We need to end corporate welfare and crony capitalism. If you come to Washington and serve in Congress, there should be a lifetime ban on lobbying.
We need to pass a strong constitutional amendment that puts into law term limits.
There are lots of voices in Washington that say 'no, no, no, this is too bold.' 'You can't stand against the
IRS, that's too extreme.' 'You can't say repeal ObamaCare, that's really a bit much. Let's just modify it.' 'You' can't not bankrupt the country, let's just slow it down a little bit.'
A friend of mine suggested a bumper sticker slogan, "Republicans, we waste less." You win elections by standing for principle, inspiring people that there is a better tomorrow.
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Source: Speech at 2014 CPAC convention
Rand Paul on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Feb 12, 2013)
Term limits if budget can't get balanced
Washington could use a good dose of transparency, which is why we should fight back against middle of the night deals that end with massive bills no one has read. We must continue to fight for legislation that forces Congress to read the bills!
We must continue to object when Congress sticks special interest riders on bills in the dead of night!And if Congress refuses to obey its own rules, if Congress refuses to pass a budget, if Congress refuses to read the bills, then I say:
Sweep the place clean. Limit their terms and send them home!
I have seen the inner sanctum of Congress and believe me there is no monopoly on knowledge there.
If they will not listen, if they will not balance the budget, then we should limit their terms.
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Source: Tea Party Response to 2013 State of the Union Address
Beto O`Rourke on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Nov 6, 2012)
Members of Congress use our tax dollars to get re-elected
The corruption that plagues our community has to stop, but we need reform and new leadership, especially in D.C. where members of Congress use our tax dollars to get re-elected. I will sponsor a bill to set term limits for representatives, so that they
focus on getting the job done instead of the special interests that keep them in office. I will also ensure you have transparent, ethical governance from your Congressional office.- Term limits. Congressional work should be a job, not a lifestyle
or a gravy train paid for with your tax dollars. I support term limits.
- Constituent Support. My local constituent office will focus on your needs, not electioneering. Expect attentive service and great results.
- Accountability and Transparency.
I will hold regular town hall meetings to ensure you have a Congressman you can talk to--not over the phone via expensive, taxpayer-funded telephonic "town halls".
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Source: 2012 House campaign website, betoforcongress.com, "Issues"
Ron DeSantis on Term Limits:
(War & Peace Nov 6, 2012)
Defend American sovereignty
If I'm elected to Congress, I will take on leaders of both parties, fight the prevailing culture of Washington and work to restore limited government principles by, among other things:- Supporting term limits for members of Congress
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Ending pensions and special perks for members of Congress
- Ending "too big to fail" and bank bailouts by repealing Dodd-Frank
- Rebuilding our military and defending American sovereignty
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Source: 2012 House campaign website, voteRon2012.com, "Issues"
Nikki Haley on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Apr 3, 2012)
Term limits force real change in leadership
I learned in the legislature was that I am for term limits. I didn't think I was when I came in, but by the time I left, I knew there needed to be a limit on the time politicians can spend in government.I believe that public officials go to Columbia
or Washington with the best of intentions. But along the way people with energy & good ideas got broken. They were told not to step out of line. From business I was used to the idea that you put your most qualified, best people in positions of authority.
Government didn't work that way. The people who got the plum assignments in the legislature were the people who had gone along with what the leadership told them to do. I didn't think that was right, and term limits would fix that. With only a certain
amount of time to spend in government, legislators wouldn't have time to play the leadership's games. They would work harder at leaving a legacy of accomplishment and real change for the people rather than at satisfying the leadership.
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Source: Can't Is Not an Option, by Gov. Nikki Haley, p.112-113
Nikki Haley on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Nov 2, 2010)
Strongly in favor of term limits at all levels of government
Term Limits: I am strongly in favor of term limits at all levels of government. I have introduced legislation to place limits on legislators: 8 years in the House of Representatives or the Senate, no more than 12 years total.
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Source: 2010 Gubernatorial campaign website, nikkihaley.com "Issues"
Donald Trump on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Sep 28, 2010)
Two-term limit on NYC mayor is a terrible idea
Donald Trump pronounced the 2-term mayoral limit "a terrible idea, an artificial barrier." Terrible perhaps, but not artificial. Mike Bloomberg actually owed his job to that law, which had forced an obviously reluctant Rudy Giuliani to depart from
City Hall. In 2005, when the city council toyed with a plan to extend the limit on everyone's service from 2 terms to 3, the people twice voted to ratify the limit.
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Source: Bloomberg: Money, Power, Politics, by J.Purnick, p.179-186
Mike Bloomberg on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Sep 28, 2010)
2005: 8-year term limits; 2009: ran for 3rd term
Influential friends, sensing a lack of impressive mayoral prospects, urged him to run for a 3rd term. As everyone knew, the 2-term mayoral limit law stood in the way. So what? His friends thought he could have it changed.Bloomberg actually owed his
job to that law, which had forced an obviously reluctant Rudy Giuliani to depart from City Hall. Moreover, Bloomberg had consistently and vehemently supported the limits. "This is an outrage!" he exclaimed in 2005, when the city council toyed with a
plan to extend the limit on everyone's service from 2 terms to 3. "There's no organization that I know," Bloomberg had said, "that would put somebody in charge for a long period of time. You always want turnover and change. 8 years is great.
You learn for 4 years. You can do for 4 years."
On October 2, Bloomberg made it official, announcing his 3rd-term plan, citing a "crisis of confidence" in the economy,
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Source: Bloomberg: Money, Power, Politics, by J. Purnick, p.179-186
Jesse Ventura on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Apr 1, 2008)
Term limits in Congress would limit lobbyist power
Term limits, in my view, would be a damned good idea. Maybe politicians wouldn't then be quite so beholden to the power of corporate lobbyists. The only lobbyists I ever knowingly met with as governor was one
I used--to try to get a floor vote on a unicameral legislature. Otherwise, I told my staff from the beginning: lobbyists and special interests did not elect me, so why do I need to talk to them now?
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Source: Don`t Start the Revolution, by Jesse Ventura, p.173
Jesse Ventura on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Apr 1, 2008)
Term limits for politicians AND for political press
NY Times, Feb. 25, 2001: "The governor decreed that reporters covering him would have to wear a jackal press badge. On the front is the governor, in a finger-pointing, Jesse-Wants-You pose, and beneath that is the reporter's name and organization, and
the words "Official Jackal." On the back is a warning that the governor can revoke the credential 'for any reason.' The governor's office says the new badges are meant to enhance security and accountability. Many new organizations object.
They say what started out as good-natured fun has become demeaning and unprofessional."Even more important than placing term limits on politicians, I believe they should have term limits on Capitol reporters. It would be a good policy, on the part of
newspapers, to do a rotation. In the end, they, they don't take an objective point of view. They start feeding into their own stories what they want to see happen. They get overrun, I think, with the feeling of power--just like career politicians do.
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Source: Don`t Start the Revolution, by Jesse Ventura, p.220-222
Mike Bloomberg on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Jan 16, 2007)
2001: opposed Giuliani extending NYC term limit
On the eve of Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year for people of the Jewish faith--a day of fasting, prayer, introspection, and atonement--Bloomberg floated a trial balloon in a clumsy attempt to override the city's term limits legislation and
extend his final term in office for at least three months.Everybody was terrified and nobody knew what was going to happen. And the thought of changing mayors at that time made a lot of people very, very, very scared.
When he came up with that idea, Giuliani's advisors wanted to do what was right for the city. Interestingly, Bloomberg didn't think so. The only thing I can think of is that Bloomberg was being very closely advised by
Koch, who probably understood the dynamics of politics better than anyone, and might have said to him, "It's a mistake; you can't change constitutional terms."
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Source: Giuliani: Flawed or Flawless, by D. & G. Strober, p.285-286
Mike Gravel on Term Limits:
(Tax Reform Jan 1, 2007)
Supports a national sales tax to replace IRS
Gravel’s campaign is based primarily on his ardent support for direct democracy (the National Initiative), but also emphasizes his support for a national sales tax and abolition of the IRS,
immediate withdrawal from the war in Iraq, a single-payer national health care system, and term limits during his campaign.
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Source: Wikipedia.org article, “Mike Gravel”
Mike Gravel on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Dec 25, 2006)
Repeal the Electoral College; enact federal term limits
The Gravel Agenda: When elected President by the American people, I will:- Repeal the Electoral College;
- Enact term limits at the federal level;
- Make the The National Initiative part of mainstream political discourse.
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Ask the American people to enact The National Initiative for Democracy so that you can decide on our agenda and all of the issues that affect your lives.
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Source: 2008 Presidential campaign website, gravel2008.us, “Issues”
Mark Sanford on Term Limits:
(Local Issues Nov 1, 2002)
Supports term limits for state legislators
Q: Do you support the current limit of two, four-year terms for South Carolina governors? A: Yes.
Q: Do you support limiting the number of terms for South Carolina state senators and representatives?
A: Yes.
Q: Do you support shortening the legislative session in South Carolina?
A: Yes.
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Source: 2002 S.C. Gubernatorial National Political Awareness Test
Mark Sanford on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Nov 4, 2000)
Term-limited Congressmen do behave differently
In the large unruly band of Republicans newly elected in the election of 1994, three stand out: Matt Salmon of Mesa, Arizona; Tom Cuburn of Muskogee Oklahoma; and Mark Sanford of Charlestown, South Carolina. They vowed that they would serve only three
2-year terms and then leave the House of Representatives. Wonder of wonders, they actually kept their word, declining to run a fourth term in 2000. Sanford’s message is clear and consistent: term limits do make a difference.
Imagine how different our government would be if the entire House of Representatives were term-limited. The tiny band of self-limited Congressmen did vote differently. The explanation here by Sanford is that the self- limited house members “don’t have
to preoccupy themselves with reelection and career. Reelection fever is what leads politicians to exaggerate good news and water down bad news. People want something a lot simpler: they want the truth. A lot of people in Washington seem to miss this.
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Source: The Trust Committed to Me, by Mark Sanford, p. ix-xi
Mark Sanford on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Nov 4, 2000)
Supported 6- year congressional term-limits
The Contract with America’s tenth and most controversial item was congressional term limits. I gladly signed the pledge, but even as we gathered to sign the Contract, it was doubtful whether there would be enough votes to pass any form of term limits
amendment to the constitution.That we could even bring term limits to the floor for a vote was something of a milestone. Since the first Congress in 1789, more than 140 term limit bills had been introduced.
The debate on term limits promised to be rough, and probably unsuccessful. Members were divided into three camps: those, like me, who strongly supported a three-term limit, those who strongly favored a six- term house limit; and those who opposed
any and all term limits.
Those of us who had already pledged to limit our own terms could see that the proposal to enact term limits by constitutional amendment was dead in the water. Passage would require a two-thirds majority of both House and Senate
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Source: The Trust Committed to Me, by Mark Sanford, p. 14-15
Mark Sanford on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Nov 4, 2000)
Pledged never to take any PAC money
While my GOP primary opponent Van Hipp and I saw pretty much eye-to-eye on the deficit, federal spending and other issues, we parted company over term limits and PACs. Hipp had received baskets of PAC money during the campaign.
I’d taken none and pledged never to take any, if elected.On the issue of PAC money, my general election opponent,
Robert Barber, raised the point that he did not want to unilaterally disarm when it comes to fundraising. Over the last five years in Washington,
I have heard his argument used by Republicans and Democrats alike. In politics we never seem to like the idea of just leading the way because we think it right or what we believe.
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Source: The Trust Committed to Me, by Mark Sanford, p. 40&46
Bill Weld on Term Limits:
(Government Reform Oct 19, 1996)
Supports term limits; they bring in fresh blood
A resident pressed the candidates on term limits, an issue mostly untouched in the campaign so far. Weld, a supporter, said he is as an example of fresh blood that came into politics and made a difference.
Kerry, who opposes term limits, said the real issue involves reforming campaign finance laws. "The problem is money--the average person can't run," Kerry said.
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Source: Harvard Crimson on Kerry/Weld debates
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