[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 58 (Wednesday, March 29, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3886]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       CONGRESSIONAL TERM LIMITS

  (Mr. ROEMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROEMER. Mr. Speaker, I have to respond to the previous speaker in 
saying that the Democrats must vote for term limits in order to pass 
it; I would just remind the gentleman from Illinois that he needs to 
get his leadership and his Republicans to vote for term limits, where 
the gentleman from Texas [Mr. DeLay] is not going to vote for term 
limits; the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Hyde] is not going to vote for 
term limits, the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary; the 
gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. Livingston], chairman of the Committee on 
Appropriations, is not going to vote for term limits.
  It is not the Democrats that are refusing to vote for term limits. It 
is the Republicans as a body that are not totally endorsing term limits 
and will be responsible for this matter not going through the House of 
Representatives.
  Now, term limits, they think, is the answer to everything. Mexico has 
very strict term limits for their President, their Senate, and their 
House of Representatives. It certainly has not solved all the problems 
in Mexico, and people like Mr. Madison and Mr. Jefferson served this 
country valiantly and with courage and responsibility for up to 43 
years.
  We should not remove that responsibility from people in this country.
  

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