[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 58 (Wednesday, March 29, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H3887-H3888]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


            OUR NATION IS BEST SERVED BY HAVING TERM LIMITS

  (Mr. NORWOOD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. NORWOOD. Mr. Speaker, I would like to point out that I bow to the 
will of this body, my term-limits badge inside my coat, not on the 
outside.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to consider the words of George 
Mason, a man whose vision was critical to our Bill of Rights. Mason 
said;

       In order to restrain public officials from oppression, they 
     should at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station and 
     return into the body from which they were originally taken * 
     * * where they might feel and participate in the burdens of 
     the people.

  Mr. Speaker, that means people here should be responsible for the 
payroll, their production should warrant what their income is, and 
people who have lived under the oppressive rules and regulations of the 
Federal Government.
  [[Page H3888]] Mr. Speaker, Congress should be of the people, not its 
permanent representative. Mason knew that this Nation would be best 
served by having individuals who have lived as private citizens 
representing them in Congress. I urge my colleagues to vote for term 
limits.

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