Labrador proposes term-limit amendment

First District Congressman Raul Labrador has introduced a proposed constitutional amendment that would impose term limits on the House and Senate. The proposal, H.J. Res. 50, has 12 original co-sponsors. It would amend the Constitution to limit service to six two-year House terms and two six-year Senate terms. Labrador said the move would give the public a government that is their servant, not their master. “The Founding Fathers expected elected officials to serve temporarily and return to their communities,” Labrador continued. “I went to Washington for public service, not a career. Term limits would reinvigorate Congress by attracting candidates ready to serve and prepared to go home to live with the consequences of their actions.” If the amendment is approved by a two-thirds majority in both the House and Senate, the measure must then ratified by the legislatures of at least three-fourths of the states.