Duncan Faircloth: “I am delighted and proud to join with Senator Thompson and cosponsor Senate Joint Resolution 21, which would provide for…”

“I am delighted and proud to join with Senator Thompson and cosponsor Senate Joint Resolution 21, which would provide for national term limits for 12 years for any Member of the U.S. House of Representatives or Senate. In the past, Congress has avoided taking a vote on term limits. We have tried to have it both ways--to tell the people at home that we support term limits, but we have simply bottled it up in Washington. Under Senator Dole's leadership, with the support of many others, I want to thank them for bringing this resolution to the Senate floor. It will be the first-ever recorded vote, and it will be the right move. Regardless of the outcome of the vote, I think it is a historic moment that we will all be proud to have participated in. There are many reasons for limiting the terms of all Members of Congress. First, the Founding Fathers, led by James Madison, intended that service in Congress would be that--a service, not a permanent job. We would not have so many burdensome, expensive, and often useless rules and regulations if we had more people in the Congress who had spent some time in the workplace in the private sector. The President of the United States has term limits, and the country is better off for it. So why should not the Congress have term limits? The custom of voluntary rotation in office was once followed by the President and Congress alike.”