Mike Thompson: “today, I, along with Senator Ashcroft, will introduce a joint resolution to impose term limits on Members of Congress.…”

“today, I, along with Senator Ashcroft, will introduce a joint resolution to impose term limits on Members of Congress. This legislation will limit Members of the Senate to two terms and it will limit Members of the House to three terms. The time has come to pass this legislation. It is needed and it has the overwhelming support of the American people. In fact, never has there been an idea so popular that has received so little attention by the U.S. Congress. It is because term limits does not have to do with spending other people's tax money or regulating other people's lives as is the case with most legislation coming out of Congress. This provision, term limits, hits much closer to home. It calls for sacrifice or at least adjustment in the lives of ourselves. At least, with regard to those in Congress who see the Congress as a permanent career. It is time that the Congress put aside the personal interest that individual Members might have and respond to the will of the people, the good of the country, as well as the good of Congress as an institution. Because term limits is not about punishing Congress or denigrating the institution of Congress, although it has come to the point where many in our society would love to do so. On the contrary. Term limits would strengthen and elevate Congress in the eyes of the American people at a time when it is most needed.”