Do you think its time to change the term limits of the congress?

[glowing]

Or rather how long they sit in their seat. I think that the House of Clowns need 3 yrs... this way they have 2yrs to pass major efforts. AND the Senate should be 4yrs. 6 is wayyyy too long for these old men who are out dated and have been in DC culture of do nothing for too long.. Either that, we need to increase the number of reps in the Senate so that we can possibly get another party in... AND because the Senate is soooo horribly stacked in favor of white men, 1 of those 3 seats from a state must include a minority.

[havocmom]

1. Time for REAL campaign finance reform so lobbyists don't own them.

The voters would take care of the rest. ;)

[wtmusic]

2. No.

I think we need to kill the DC revolving-door lobbying culture and tackle antitrust.

Monopolies are the source of almost everything that is wrong with American-style capitalism.

[Alameda]

3. NO! If they are doing a good job, they should stay. We do vote.

[Dreamer Tatum]

4. No.

Think of all the goofy shit they'd try to do if they knew that they didn't have to face reelection. Congress
would turn into a giant retribution machine, half the time doing idiotic things, the other half undoing what the
last guy just did.

[RB TexLa]

5. No

[niceypoo]

6. Campaign finance reform

[Va Lefty]

7. You make a good point about the House

WAY too much of their time is spent raising $$$ for campaigns every 2 years. Of course if you had free TV/radio and public financing they wouldn't need to raise all that money! As for your last idea I like it, can you imagine all the caterwauling from the RW if 1/3 of Senate seats were held by "them people"!!

:rofl:

[melm00se]

8. It would require

a Constitutional Amendment to make that happen.

a better solution, from a corruption standpoint, would be to approach the numbers detailed in Article I, section 2, paragraph 3:

The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand...

this would dilute the powers of the individual Congresscritter making them, individually, less of a target of attempts to improperly influence. Imagine trying to bribe, coerce, influence 25 times the number of the current legislators.

[lunatica]

9. votes are the ultimate deciding factor for term limits

What needs to change is finance reform and lobbying laws. I say let the lobbies remain, just limit the amount of money they can spread around to a very strict fraction of what they shovel into the gaping maws of politicians now.

[TxRider]

10. Yes

Serve 8 years and step aside...

[glowing]

11. Wow, its amazing to hear so many happy with the status quo.

How do you get finance reform when it is the people in the seats that must make the rules they have to live by.