Wyoming’s Senator Lummis Co-Sponsors Term Limit Bill

Wyoming's Senator Cynthia Lummis has cosponsored a bill to limit the number of times members of Congress can run for office.

It was Republicans in Congress led by US Sen. Ted Cruz who introduced a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to impose term limits.

Currently, U.S. senators serve six-year terms and can run for reelection as many times as they wish.

This bill would limit them to just two terms, or twelve years total.

Members of the U.S. House would be limited to three terms of two years each.

But it's not just up to the Federal government.

These are officials elected by the states.

That's why the two-page resolution states that after the amendment is passed by Congress and ratified by the states.

NO SWITCHING HOUSES!

Once a member of the House, for example, has served three terms, they cannot run for senate.

Likewise, a Senator who has served 2 terms could not run for the house.

“Term limits are critical to fixing what’s wrong with Washington, D.C.,” said Cruz, who was just reelected to this third term in the Senate.

"The Founding Fathers envisioned a government of citizen legislators who would serve for a few years and return home, not a government run by a small group of special interests and lifelong, permanently entrenched politicians who prey upon the brokenness of Washington to govern in a manner that is totally unaccountable to the American people."

"Term limits bring about long-overdue accountability."

"I urge my colleagues to advance this amendment to the states so that it may be quickly ratified and become a constitutional amendment" (Cruz).

Cosponsoring the joint resolution with Cruz are Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, Rick Scott of Florida, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Todd Young of Indiana, Steve Daines of Montana, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Eric Schmitt of Missouri, Roger Marshall of Kansas, Katie Britt of Alabama and Jim Banks of Indiana.