On the recordSeptember 6, 2018
I am proud to stand with my colleagues here: Mr. Arrington from Texas, Mr. Fitzpatrick, and Mr. Khanna. I want to say, since we started on this journey a year and a half ago, I have been blown away by the response that I have gotten from constituents in my district. Ro Khanna and I wrote an op-ed together very early on in Congress where we laid out three priorities for draining the swamp, one of which was term limits; and to this day, I still have people coming up to me on the street saying: I love that. I just love the fact that you were willing to write an op-ed with a Democrat. I just think it gets to what my colleagues have laid out, which is that issues like this cross party lines. They have the overwhelming support of 80 percent of the American people. We have to ask ourselves the serious question as to whether we are willing to disregard the wisdom, the common sense of 80 percent of the American people. I think we do so at our own peril. I recognize that there are principled and serious objections to the idea of term limits, and I would like to address what I think are the three most salient, albeit briefly. The one thing I hear a lot from opponents of term limits is that, well, we already have term limits built into the system. We have term limits every 2 years in the House and every 6 years in the Senate in the form of elections.…
