[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 74 (Tuesday, May 8, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H3825]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          ENACTING TERM LIMITS

  (Mr. FRANCIS ROONEY of Florida asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FRANCIS ROONEY of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss a 
creative solution to enacting term limits without amending the 
Constitution, H.R. 5539, the Thomas Jefferson Public Service Act of 
2018.
  Under this proposal, after six terms in the House or two in the 
Senate, Members of Congress will only receive $1 a year in compensation 
for their service, effectively implementing real term limits. Again, no 
constitutional amendment necessary.
  Critics may say this will create a Congress full of rich people, but, 
in fact, people using this argument are exactly the career politicians 
we need to weed out. If a person were to ignore the effective 12-year 
term limit, regardless of how much money they might have, the culture 
of term limits would be set in and they would be widely opposed, 
criticized, and should be thrown out.
  Eighty-six percent of our customers, the voters, want term limits. As 
a businessperson, I am just figuring out how to get them what they 
want. That is what we do in the real world: satisfy customers.

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