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Can We Have a National Vote on Term Limits for Congress?

The top 3 questions we get most often at U.S. Term Limits are: “Why not put term limits to a national vote of the people?” “How can we expect Congress to term limit itself?” and “What can I do as a citizen term limits supporter?” “Why not put term limits to a national vote of

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New Poll: Overwhelming Majority of Kentuckians Support Congressional Term Limits

For immediate release November 30, 2018 Contact: Scott Tillman, U.S. Term Limits Email: stillman@termlimits.com Phone: (321) 345-7455 New Poll: Overwhelming Majority of Kentuckians Support Congressional Term Limits Washington, D.C. — A new poll shows that Kentucky residents resoundingly agree that it is time for term limits on Congress. The survey, conducted by McLaughlin & Associates, found that 84 percent of

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New Poll: Overwhelming Majority of West Virginians Support Congressional Term Limits

For immediate release November 30, 2018 Contact: Scott Tillman, U.S. Term Limits Email: stillman@termlimits.com Phone: (321) 345-7455 New Poll: Overwhelming Majority of West Virginians Support Congressional Term Limits Washington, D.C. — A new poll shows that West Virginia residents resoundingly agree that it is time for term limits on Congress. The survey, conducted by McLaughlin & Associates, found that 83

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Trump Should Look to Peru

Democracy can degrade into other things, even strong-man rule. To avoid such degradation, we have a ready prophylactic. Term limits. Which hamper would-be dictators-for-life, including entrenched oligarchs in the legislature. Many countries illustrate the point. But take Peru, where the new head of state, Martin Vizcarra, has been combatting political corruption by supporting a referendum to impose term limits and other reforms on Peru’s

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Poll: Voters prefer head lice to the U.S. Congress

Sounds like a joke but it’s actually true. In a recent No Uncertain Terms podcast, U.S. Term Limits’s Executive Director Nick Tomboulides and U.S. Representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas referred to Americans’ ranking of Congress as somewhere in the vicinity of head lice and gonorrhea, respectively. Congressional favorability ratings rise and fall over time and

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Was it a wave or just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?

The following is a term limits discussion between Nicolas Tomboulides, Executive Director of U.S. Term Limits and J.R. Hoeft on his podcast. Listen to the episode in its entirety here: https://jrhoeft.com/2018/11/19/nick-tomboulides-u-s-term-limits/. Nick T.:                … getting legislatures who are actually closer to the people and have to appeal to voters. They can’t just rely on PAC money.

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Taming Political Conflict of Interest

Isn’t it an obvious conflict of interest when politicians put a measure on the ballot to weaken or repeal their own term limits? In 2012, citizens of Kettering, Ohio, collected signatures to put an eight-year term limits measure on the ballot. It passed with more than 60% of the vote. In 2016, with a simple

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