Martin Hoke: “And in Ohio where we passed a law that would limit Members of Congress to four 2-year terms that I supported and I…”

“And in Ohio where we passed a law that would limit Members of Congress to four 2-year terms that I supported and I campaigned for and I voted for, I will have the opportunity to vote on the amendment of the gentlewoman From Florida [Mrs. Fowler] with the four 2-year terms. I think that you are right on the money when you say that people ought to really work hard on this, because it is critical to the citizen legislature that we all envision. I would say one other thing, and that is that we often, we hear the phrase that power corrupts. And there is no question about it. Power does corrupt. But what I would suggest to you is that power corrupts relatively slowly and that the problem that we had with the fact that one party was in control for 40 years did not come about, we did not have a problem in the first 10 years or the first even 15 years necessarily, but the arrogance and the occupation that became endemic to this institution really began in the 1980's and continued through. And it seems to me that we cannot get lulled into thinking that anybody has--that there is some sort of a corner that one party has on purity or righteousness. The problem is when one party is in control for far too long.”