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25 Florida State Legislators Named “Champions of Term Limits”

For immediate release March 18th, 2019 Contact: Stacey Selleck Phone: (727) 744-0740 25 Florida State Legislators Named “Champions of  Term Limits” TALLAHASSEE, FL – Florida-based U.S. Term Limits, the nation’s largest pro-term limits group, today announced it was honoring 25 state legislators as 2019 “Champions of Term Limits” in Florida. The award recognizes “a steadfast

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Inaugural Term Limits Day a National Success!

by Stacey Selleck February 27th marked the first ever National Term Limits Day. Celebratory events took place all over the country. Some of the activities were guided tours of state capitols, some were sign waves, one was an online lecture to students in Colorado, a few others were luncheons with term limits discussions. USTL organized

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New Research: Congressional Tenure Steadily Increasing

by Stacey Selleck If you think members of Congress are serving longer and longer terms, your suspicions have been proved correct, as evidenced by the latest report entitled, “Congressional Careers: Service Tenure and Patterns of Member Service, 1789-2019” by William T. Egar of the Congressional Research Service (Updated January 3, 2019.) INCREASING: TENURE Long gone

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Democratic-Republican Day

“We live in a republic,” I often hear, “not a democracy!” Sometimes it seems like we live in neither. Today is the first National Term Limits Day. Its proponents aim to style February 27th as an annual event. It’s a new thing. But term limits themselves are not new. For instance, 68 years ago today, the 22nd Amendment was

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The Soul of Citizen Government

Today’s federal holiday represents a truly spectacular feat of modern public administration: actual downsizing. By our federal government, no less. Where once there were two federal holidays, Washington’s Birthday and Lincoln’s Birthday, now there is just one: Presidents’ Day. There is no equal in public sector simplicity, frugality, efficiency. Stand in awe, fair citizens.* In that

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Term Limits Advocates Celebrate “Term Limits Day” February 27th

Get ready to cheer for the idea of citizen legislators. On Wednesday, February 27th, term limits supporters throughout America will celebrate the first annual “Term Limits Day.” A project of U.S. Term Limits, Term Limits Day will raise awareness for the most popular and bipartisan issue in America. According to a 2018 poll by McLaughlin

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Is Democracy in Retreat?

The watchdog group Freedom House thinks so. “Freedom in the World” is Freedom House’s flagship annual report, assessing the condition of political rights and civil liberties around the world. It is composed of numerical ratings and supporting descriptive texts for 195 countries and 14 territories. Freedom in the World has been published since 1973, allowing

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Q: Who holds the record for longest time in Congress?

A: U.S. Representative John Dingell, from Michigan, is the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S. history. The lawmaker retired from the U.S. House of Representatives in 2015 at the age of 87 after serving since 1955. Dingell holds the record for longest serving member of Congress at 59 years, 21 days. That’s 30 terms in office.

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