The Tennessee Senate voted 18-11 on Thursday to pass a resolution applying for a national convention to propose term limits on Congress.
The resolution, HJR5, will now be counted towards the 34 state applications required to call a term limits convention as the Tennessee House of Representatives passed the measure last year.
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Former Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives Beth Harwell, a candidate for the TN-5 GOP nomination, announced on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy that if elected, she will limit herself to three terms of service totaling six years in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Harwell has additionally signed the U.S. Term Limit’s pledge which states “that as a member of Congress I will cosponsor and vote for the U.S. Term Limits Amendment of three (3) House terms and two (2) Senate terms and no longer limit.”
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U.S. Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN-02) on Friday introduced new legislation that would impose term limits on members of Congress.
If enacted, the bill would amend the Constitution and only allow House members to serve three two-year terms, and Senators could serve two six-year terms.
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Thursday morning on the Tennessee Star Report, host Michael Patrick Leahy welcomed Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs to the newsmakers line to explain his motivation for US term limits and his background.
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Senator Jen Kiggans (R-Virginia Beach) has signed a pledge to support a term limits Constitutional amendment if she is elected to Congress. The proposed amendment would limit U.S. representatives to three terms, and U.S. Senators to two terms. Of Virginia’s current federal legislators, only Congressman Bob Good (R-Virginia-05) has signed the pledge. Good is also a cosponsor of HJR 12 in the current Congressional session.
“Term limits on elected officials will help guarantee the will of the people, not special interests or career politicians, are being heard,” Kiggans said in a press release.
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Thursday morning on the Tennessee Star Report, host Michael Patrick Leahy welcomed State Rep. Chris Todd in the studio to discuss his bill expected to reach the House floor on Monday addressing term limits for members of the U.S. Congress.
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The executive director of U.S. Term Limits said his organization has yet to find a ballot measure anywhere in America this year “more unethical” than Referendum One in Memphis. The referendum, should Memphis voters pass it, would limit city council members to three terms. But there’s something city officials aren’t telling voters, said U.S. Term Limits Executive Director Nick Tomboulides, when asked about an email City Council Chair Berlin Boyd recently sent out to voters using a .gov email address. “Chairman Boyd and others know voters would never knowingly demolish term limits. They have misleadingly framed this as a pro-term limits measure,” Tomboulides told The Tennessee Star in an email. “The ballot language only tells voters they’d be implementing term limits; not that a two-term limit already exists and is being lengthened to three terms.” U.S. Term Limits is based out of Washington, D.C. and advocates for term limits at all levels of government, according to its website. The premise of the Memphis measure, Tomboulides went on to say, is bad enough because it disregards the wishes of 75 percent of city voters who passed those two-term limit restrictions eight years ago. “If Memphis politicians believe they need more time to…
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