A handful of Republican senators have proposed a constitutional amendment to limit how long a person may serve in Congress.
Currently, there are no term limits for federal lawmakers, but Sen. Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina, and several of his colleagues are advocating that service in the Senate be limited to 12 years, while lawmakers would only be allowed to serve six years in the House.
"Americans know real change in Washington will never happen until we end the era of permanent politicians," DeMint said in a statement released by his office. "As long as members have the chance to spend their lives in Washington, their interests will always skew toward spending taxpayer dollars to buyoff special interests, covering over corruption in the bureaucracy, fundraising, relationship building among lobbyists, and trading favors for pork -- in short, amassing their own power."
No word on whether Jim DeMint plans to run for re-election, since he has served the two terms to which he wants to limit OTHER Senators.
There's an easy way to enforce term limits, and that's to have voters pay attention. I live in a town that just out of force of habit elected a mayor who has been on the exclusively-Republican town council for nearly three decades, and ran as the candidate of "change." Voters don't pay attention, and so they vote for the familiar name on the ballot. If voters want term limits, they need to start paying attention and doing the civic part of their duty as citizens.
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