“Throw the bums out!” we often hear in reference to Congress. The sentiment expresses frustration, even rage, at the failings of our nation’s legislative branch. It also declares a means of addressing those failings by voting congressmen out of office.
introduced last week constitutional amendments imposing term limits on Congress. This is not the first time in the modern era that term limits have been proposed; the House voted on a similar proposal several times between 1995 and 1997.
For one, a term limit undermines Congress’s capacity to legislate well. This point presents no small problem. After all, Congress’s primary and essential job is lawmaking. Federalist 62 Even with today’s career politicians, we see a lack of knowledge and skill in lawmaking. Congress has delegated much of the real legislating to the bureaucracy, leaving its members little practice to cultivate the legislative art. Many in Congress instead spend their time investigating the executive branch or putting forward bills that are nothing more than glorified press releases meant to signal to constituents or donors their fidelity to a partisan tribe.
A second reason term limits would do more harm than good is that they would strengthen both the administrative state's and special interests’ grip on Washington. Already, both hold too much power over legislating and executing national policy. Imposing term limits on Congress would weaken its independence even more, both in measure and in permanence.
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