[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 58 (Wednesday, March 29, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3887]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


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                 MAJORITY OF AMERICANS WANT TERM LIMITS

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HOKE. Mr. Speaker, in his 1992 campaign for the White House, Mr. 
Clinton had this to say about term limits: ``I am against term limits 
because I think it takes choices away from the voters.'' But the 
American people did choose. They chose by an overwhelming majority that 
they want term limits. It was their choice. Twenty-four and half 
million Americans have chosen term limits.
  When you talk about choices for the voters, let us look at what 
happened in California. In California, the number of candidates running 
for office has increased by 40 percent since passage of term limits. 
That gives voters an awful lot more choices, does it not? Does it not 
increase the choices dramatically?
  Mr. Speaker, the American people clearly want term limits. 
Republicans cannot do it alone. We need only half of the Democrats, we 
just need half of your caucus to vote for term limits. And the 
gentleman from Michigan's [Mr. Dingell] own bill, we just need half of 
the Democrats to give the American people what they want, a more 
accountable citizen legislature and an end to legislative careerism.


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