Posted on 01/18/2009 6:26:00 AM PST by andrew roman
On January 6th, Congressman Jose Serrano from the Bronx introduced a bill in the House of Representatives calling for a repeal of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. For those who are not aware of what that is, it is sometimes known as the "Roosevelt" amendment, adopted in 1951, setting term-limits on the United States Presidency. Franklin Roosevelt, recall, was elected four times - the only President in the nation's history to be elected more than twice.
Mr. Serrano is calling for a Constitutional Amendment making the 22nd null and void.
The bill is short and sweet.
It reads as follows:
(Excerpt) Read more at romanaround.net ...
Introduced and ignored for about the last 20 years.
Oh...
see also:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2166853/posts
If any change is needed in term limits, it should be to impose them on the legislative branch. There are places in this country where people have lived their entire lives with the same Representative or Senator.
Yep. This has zero (no pun intended) chance of passing in the Senate for one simple reason. Anytime a US Senator looks in the mirror he sees a President......
West Virginia's cadaver, er, uh, I mean Senator Byrd comes to mind.....
But as Thermalseeker says it would never pass the Senate because all of these millionaires in the Senate no where their security is. It is in reelection. If they depended on the legislatures to get reelected they would have to spend more time in their state playing politics with their states local politician and not at Washington cocktail parties.
It is kind of funny that some Hispanic dipstick in the House would bring this up at the same time Chavez is trying to get this passed in Venezuela.
The United States is not interested in a dictatorship. Thank you Senor.
The 17th amendment was adopted because of the abuses of the situation in prior elections....the final one was in Illinois where a Gentlemen bought enough votes in the Illinois legislature to get appointed as Senator....believe that was just a few years prior to the 17th addition to the Constitution.
President for life! Now where have I heard that before? But I’m not about to start laughing. Don’t be surprised if talk about repeal actually does begin to hit our fair and balanced airwaves sometime this year.
You want the legislature to select the Senators...I would not want this. Think about the Dem legislatures who have GOP Senators...no thanks.
He has been doing this for years.
From his Wiki:
José Enrique Serrano was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
In each of 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2009, Serrano introduced a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd Amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as president. Each resolution, with the exception of the current one, died without ever getting past the committee.
A member of the Progressive Caucus, he is widely regarded as one of the most liberal members of Congress.
Congressman Serrano has been a critic of the Bush administration’s approach to handling President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela. In 2005, while the Venezuelan President was in New York City speaking before the United Nations, the congressman invited him to his district to speak to his constituency.
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He has always been a Commie.
With campaign finance reform are things so different today? At least then the offender would be limited to a single term unless he was willing to pay every 6 years. Today once elected it is a nearly sure thing that they will be in office as long as they like.
Only billionaires have the kind of cash to challenge an incumbent senator for election.
Unless an incumbent has been disgraced somehow there is no chance of beating them.
Today at least some of the State Legislatures are term limited. This presents the country with unique opportunity to clear out some of the old guard senators that have been working long years to destroy freedom in this country.
The state legislature term limits would effectively term limit the Federal Senators because their allies at the state level would not be in office when they came up for re-appointment.
Isn’t the reverse also true? I am asking because I don’t know.
But I also think that having Senator’s beholden to their legislatures for reappointment would have the effect of making senators much more conservative.
They would not be as likely of pass legislation that put requirements on the states (unfunded mandates) if they had to return to the state’s legislatures to re-appointed.
Pass a law that requires your state to spend millions of extra dollars, lose your seat. Pass a law that says your state will not be able to mine low sulfur coal or drill for oil, lose your seat.
You mean god has already proven his mettle, before he’s even crowned?
All hail god-emperor Obama!*
*We don’t need no steenkin’ elections...
I think there are more Dems than GOP-but no matter what, I would not want the state to determine who our Senator is-no way. The revolution of 94 would not have been possible under those circumstances.
Wonder if Bill Clinton was behind this?
TS, LOL, I was a little worried until I read your post. Makes perfect sense. Thanks!
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