Senator Dianne Feinstein

‘s death while

taking office has reignited the debate over term limits in Congress

and further

continuous,

awkward conversation about the age of elected officials.

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which is in her fifth full term.

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In the 1992 Senate, she had rejected calls for her resignation

during the past years

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health complications.

However, in February, she

announced that she would not seek re-election after her term in office

expired

in January 2025.

a

poll published this month

found by the Pew Research Center that this was the case

“overwhelming”

public support for congressional term limits, with 87% of respondents in favor. The

poll

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found it

broad support

among adults

for imposing age limits on elected politicians in Washington (79%) and for the Supreme Court ju

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it (74%).

Congressional term limits are

gathered

support under

Republicans in Congress, including

members of the Freedom House caucus

which demanded as part of a vote on the issue

their deal to back Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) during his troubled run for the

speakership

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former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

along with independent Vermont

Senator Bernie Sanders,

who consults with the party.

In January, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) reintroduced a bill that would change the law

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constitution and cap senators

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two six-year terms and house

members

up to three two-year terms.

“The Founding Fathers envisioned a government of citizen legislators who would serve a few years and return home, not a government run by a small group of special interests and lifelong, permanently entrenched politicians who preyed on Washington’s brokenness to find a way to govern ‘That is completely unaccountable to the American people’

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said earlier this year. He is

runs for a third term in 2024.

Calls for term limits in Congress increased after Feinstein’s extended absence from Capitol Hill earlier this year as she recovered from

a

Shingles

infection

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The debate was revived then

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leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who is 81, appeared

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was unable to speak during two press conferences in recent weeks.

Casey Burgat, legislative affairs program director at George Washington University, said term limits have public support because “Congress is incredibly unpopular and isn’t meeting many of its basic obligations.”

Burgat, however

said, set up

term limits would be lifted

the rights of voters.

“Feinstein won an election four years ago when her age was clearly known,” Burgat said. “The voters saw her compared to the alternatives and chose her to continue her career. Imposing draconian measures, such as term limits that kick out good and bad politicians, simultaneously deprives voters of the fundamental right to choose who they want. wants to represent them.”

“We have presidential term limits because we realize that putting too much power in one person for a long period of time is not a good thing, and people agree that the same should apply to Congress.”

said

Scott Tillman, national field director of US Term Limits, an organization that advocates for caps in state legislatures and at the federal level.

In 1995 there was a party at US Term Limits

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a case before the Supreme Court

that prevented states from doing so

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term limits or

conference qualifications

in addition to the matters listed in the Constitution

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In a 5-4 majority opinion, Justice John Paul Stevens said that “such a state-imposed restriction violates the fundamental principle of our representative democracy, embodied in the Constitution, that the people should choose whoever they want to govern them .”

Burgat said term limits would lead to a

revolving door of legislators and a

loss of institutional knowledge about federal policymaking that comes with experience in Congress.

“If that experience is not available in your own country, you look for it outside the home and in politics, that means special interest groups, that means lobbyists

“he said.”

It would increase respect for special interest groups and an executive branch that has longer-serving bureaucrats who are otherwise unelected.”