[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 54 (Thursday, March 23, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H3575-H3576]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              TERM LIMITS

  (Mr. GUTIERREZ asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. GUTIERREZ. Mr. Speaker, today I want to send a special message to 
the people of the Sixth District in Georgia. I want to inform you that 
your Congressman, Mr. Gingrich--whom you first elected in 1978--
supports limiting members to 12 years of service.
  In a press conference endorsing the 12-year limit, the Speaker, now 
in his 17th year, said: ``The balance of power in favor of professional 
politicians as incumbents * * * has made a mockery of the process of 
open elections.''
  So, that must mean that each election held in Georgia's Sixth 
District since 1990, when Mr. Gingrich's 12 years were up, has been a 
mockery.
  If I lived in Georgia, I'd be concerned to hear that I had voted in a 
``mockery'' of an election. In fact, three of them, since 1990.
  But, there is a remedy. No, not a special election, and, no, we don't 
have to ask President Carter to monitor the elections, even though he 
lives right 
[[Page H3576]] there. The solution is real term limits, retroactive 
term limits. Now, it is hard work to be the Speaker, but, it should not 
be too much trouble to actually live by the words that you speak.


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