[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]




             A HISTORIC DAY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

  (Mr. CLEMENT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CLEMENT. Mr. Speaker, this is a historic day in the House. This 
will be the first vote in the House on term limits since the Framers of 
the Constitution rejected the idea over 200 years ago.
  I believe term limits are not needed or necessary. Voters have the 
opportunity to limit our careers every 2 years. We have had a 52-
percent turnover in the House of Representatives since 1990.
  It is going to put much more power in the hands of the bureaucracy 
rather than the elected officials. And No. 5 is the large States really 
benefit at the expense of the smaller States such as Tennessee.
  But with everything said and with my reservations about term limits, 
I will vote to let the people in Tennessee and the respective States 
decide whether term limits is in the best interests of the country. I 
will uphold the wishes of the people of my State and let them decide 
whether or not they wish to amend the Constitution even though I think 
it is a bad idea.


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