For immediate release
February 23, 2021
Contact: Dr. John Cowan, U.S. Term Limits
Phone: 334.430.2757
jcowan@termlimits.com
Term Limits on Congress Resolution Passes Georgia Senate
ATLANTA, GEORGIA — Yesterday, the Georgia state senate passed a resolution in favor of proposing term limits on Congress. Senate Resolution 28 (SR28), sponsored by Sen. Bill Cowsert, sailed through the chamber by a vote of 34-20. This resolution, as well as the companion HR39 sponsored by Rep. Beth Camp in the house, is being guided through the Georgia legislature by U.S. Term Limits (USTL), the nation’s largest term limits advocacy organization.
“Georgia legislators take seriously their obligation as a check and balance to the federal government when it comes to proposing a term limits amendment to the Constitution,” said Dr. John Cowan, Advisory board Chair for U.S. Term Limits in Georgia. “We know Congress won’t propose this important election reform itself. Therefore, the states must step up and take action.”
Senator Greg Dolezal presented an impassioned argument in favor of term limits. Addressing the challenge of money in politics, Dolezal stated that “Career politicians are supported, in primaries and their elections, 9:1 over their challengers. The system is broken.”
The way to fix this dysfunction is with congressional term limits proposed via a national term limits convention. Through Article V of the U.S. Constitution, 34 states may make a call to propose the term limits on Congress amendment. Once proposed, 38 states are required to ratify the amendment to make it law.
Fifty Georgia state lawmakers in the 2021 legislature have taken the term limits pledge (see listing below) promising to support an Article V convention for term limits on Congress.
According to a 2017 poll by McLaughlin & Associates, congressional term limits is the most popular and bipartisan issue in Georgia, with 80 percent support statewide and only 9 percent opposed. Support includes 83 percent of Republicans, 82 percent of independents and 74 percent of Democratic voters.
Once the Georgia House passes the concurrent resolution, Georgia will be in the forefront of states calling for a national convention for the sole purpose of proposing a term limits on Congress amendment.
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List of Georgia State Legislature Signers of the Term Limits Pledge:
H002 Steve Tarvin
H004 Kasey Carpenter
H005 Matt Barton
H009 Will Wade
H010 Victor Anderson
H015 Matthew Gambill
H016 Trey Kelley
H020 Charlice Byrd
H021 Brad Thomas
H022 Wes Cantrell
H025 Todd Jones
H030 Emory Dunahoo
H040 Erick Allen
H056 Meisha Mainor
H058 Park Cannon
H065 Mandisha Thomas
H067 Micah Gravley
H071 Philip Singleton
H071 David Stover
H073 Karen Mathiak
H097 Bonnie Rich
H098 David Clark
H103 Timothy Barr
H104 Chuck Efstration
H105 Donna McLeod
H110 Clint Crowe
H119 Marcus Wiedower
H131 Beth Camp
H141 Dale Washburn
H147 Heath Clark
H151 Gerald Greene
H157 Bill Werkheiser
H161 Bill Hitchens
H162 Carl Gilliard
H164 Ron Stephens
H166 Jesse Petrea
H176 James Burchett
H177 Dexter Sharper
H179 Don Hogan
S008 Russ Goodman
S013 Carden Summers
S017 Brian Strickland
S021 Brandon Beach
S027 Greg Dolezal
S030 Mike Dugan
S031 Jason Anavitarte
S045 Clint Dixon
S051 Steve Gooch
S054 Chuck Payne
S056 John Albers
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U.S. Term Limits is the oldest and largest grassroots term limits advocacy group in the country. We connect term limits supporters with their legislators and work to pass term limits on all elected officials, particularly on the U.S. Congress. Find out more at termlimits.com.