Term limits bill to reach House committee next week: Rep. Norman

"We've got to find a way to get these people out of the House and Senate and make them go back and live on to some of these rules they make and it couldn't come quick enough," Norman declared.

By Ben Whedon

Published: September 15, 2023 7:14pm

A bill to impose terms limits on elected lawmakers is expected to reach the House Judiciary Committee next week, according to South Carolina Republican Rep. Ralph Norman.

Appearing on the "Just the News, No Noise" television show on Friday, the Republican lawmaker said he expected the plan to reach the committee on Tuesday, but that he expected a fight to maintain the legislation in its current form.

"Well, I think it'll come up next week," he said. "[W]e're battling to have the bill intact as as presented, originally, which over 100 members of the House have signed. I know Ted Cruz has got it in the Senate. And it's three terms for the House, six years, and two terms for the Senate, or 12 years, you got to have two thirds vote in the House and the Senate. And it's got to be ratified by three-fourths of the state legislators."

"So the word we get is will it'll be heard in the Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, September 19," he continued. "And you see the thing that Americans have been wanting for a long time; look at the people in the Senate and the House that have been there 20, 30, 40 years, our president being one of them, who is cognitively not there."

The retort about President Joe Biden comes amid mounting scrutiny of the president's age amid a string of gaffes and bizarre moments in which he has appeared lost. It also comes as California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have had their health and fitness for office questioned.

Biden entered the Senate in 1973, while McConnell did so in 1985 and Feinstein joined the upper chamber in 1992. All have faced calls to resign or retire. Feinstein thus far is the only one of the three to announce her intent to leave office. She intends to serve the remainder of her Senate term and will not seek reelection.

"We've got to find a way to get these people out of the House and Senate and make them go back and live under some of these rules they make and it couldn't come quick enough," Norman declared. "I'm optimistic. I hope it doesn't get amended. And I hope we can can get it passed, which I think we will, and the American people will win on it."

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