Mike Thompson: “I think you can say that about a lot of other professions back then…”

On the recordApril 19, 1996

I think you can say that about a lot of other professions back then, too. As time has gone on, that number has diminished. We have fewer and fewer people who have done anything except be in politics. So, again, I think he is a good example of the citizen legislator. He and I both came to the Senate together a little over a year ago, neither one of us having run for office before. We vowed, together, that we would do what we could to advance the concept of a citizen legislator and fight for term limits. As we said earlier, this is the first time in 49 years that we will have a vote on term limits in this body.

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Mike Thompson

Democratic · California

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Discussing the importance of citizen legislators and the concept of term limits.

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Mike Thompson: “I think you can say that about a lot of other professions back then, too. As time has gone on, that number has…”

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