Term limits for Congress are long overdue. I support the Constitutional amendment introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Ralph Norman (SJ Res. 3, HJ Res. 12). Please respond to this email and let me know if you support the amendment, and if you have signed on as a cosponsor. The founders of our nation expected that we would be governed by a citizens’ Congress, composed of part-time legislators whose full-time jobs would require them to experience the full burden of the taxes and regulations imposed by the Federal government. Today, instead of a citizens’ Congress, we have a permanent ruling class of full-time congressmen who hope to hold their seats for decades. They know little or nothing of what it is like to live under the laws they have passed. This must change. Limiting senators to two terms and representatives to three would put an end to this ruling class, and restore a citizens’ Congress. It would put an end to the cozy relationship between lifetime bureaucrats and lifetime congressmen so that Congress would work for us instead of the bureaucracy. We must amend the Constitution and put term limits on Congress. Please let me know if you agree, and if you have or soon will cosponsor the Cruz/Norman amendment.

Congress was meant to be a collection of citizens who had full-time jobs in the real world, and spent a short time each year legislating in the capital. Now we suffer under a permanent ruling class. Being in Congress has become a full-time job, whose members hope to hold their seats for decades before retiring on a generous pension. They don’t understand the problems of people like me and don’t feel the burdens that their laws place on us. Instead of listening to the people, congressmen establish close relationships with the bureaucracy, and are bent to the bureaucratic will. This did not happen in the early years of our country, because Congress was not considered a career at that time. Most members served only one or two terms. They did not consider themselves as part of a permanent ruling elite. We can return to that type of Congress by putting term limits on Congress. Fortunately, Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Ralph Norman have introduced an amendment to do just that (SJ Res 3 and HJ Res 12). Please let me know if you will support the term limits amendment and become a cosponsor. This will be an important factor for me when I evaluate candidates in the 2022 elections.

The Constitution recognizes the danger of allowing a president to serve too long by limiting him to just two terms. The amendment to establish this limit was enacted shortly after the two-term tradition established by George Washington was violated for the first time. Congress should also be subject to term limits, and for the same reason. We need frequent turnover so that members will not become a ruling elite, isolated from the needs and thoughts of the people Congress is supposed to serve. We used to have this sort of high turnover in Congress. Many members served only one term, or perhaps two, before leaving. Abraham Lincoln voluntarily imposed a one-term limit on himself and did not run for a second term. Since many in today’s Congress enjoys the high salaries, perks, and generous pensions too much to leave voluntarily, we must add term limits to the US Constitution. That can be done by passing the amendment introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Ralph Norman (SJ Res 3 and HJ Res 12). I hope to see and hear you taking an active part in pressing for quick passage of this amendment. If you have not already become a cosponsor, you should do so now. Please let me know if you will be supporting the Cruz/Norman amendment.

Washington, D.C., and its political establishment have rightfully become known as “The Swamp”. Common sense ideas such as limited government, personal responsibility, honest elections, the need for police protection, and the importance of borders are treated with contempt there. The first step toward draining the swamp is to end the lifetime tenure of our permanent ruling class by putting term limits on Congress. We need a Congress whose members go to Washington, serve for a few years while they still remember what it is like to be a private citizen, and then return home to let someone else have a turn. That’s the way it was in the early years of our nation. Very few saw political office as a career. It was a period of brief public service to help their fellow citizens, not themselves. Those congressmen did not go to Washington to enrich themselves, or to enter into a partnership with bureaucrats against the people. They created and maintained a free and prosperous nation. If members of Congress will not voluntarily leave, then the Constitution must require them to do so. That’s what the Twenty-second Amendment did to Presidents, limiting them to two terms. Now we must limit Congress. Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Ralph Norman have introduced a constitutional amendment for term limits (SJ Res. 3 and HJ Res. 12). You should give this your outspoken support. You should sign on as a cosponsor if you have not already done so. Please let me know if you are now willing to become an active supporter of the Cruz/Norman amendment.

Washington is in the grip of a notorious “iron triangle” formed by long-serving congressmen, lifetime bureaucrats, and powerful lobbyists. They now rule the country, not the American people. We can break their grip by eliminating its key element – congressmen who stay in Washington decade after decade, forming close alliances with the bureaucrats and lobbyists for their mutual benefit at the expense of the public. Term limits for Congress are what we need. Require a constant flow of fresh faces, free from close ties to the bureaucrats and lobbyists, and listening instead to the American people. Let them legislate for a few years, then go home and return to their real jobs. It’s time that the voice of the people was heard in Washington – not the voice of bureaucrats and lobbyists. Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Ralph Norman have already introduced a constitutional amendment for term limits (SJ Res. 3 and HJ Res. 12). You should throw your support behind this amendment, and speak out for it at every opportunity. You should add your name as a cosponsor if you have not yet done so. Please respond and tell me whether you will support this much-needed amendment.