Live from Music Row Thursday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed Tennessee State Representative (R), Chris Todd of Jackson, to the studio where he explained his new resolution HJR0008 calling for term limits for members of the U.S. Congress.
Leahy: We are joined in studio by State Representative Chris Todd from Jackson. We’re going to talk a little bit about a resolution he has here. It’s fascinating. If you want to chat with representative Todd our number is 615-737-9522. Chris, you have introduced a resolution HJR0008. Tell us about that.
Todd: This is a resolution that once it’s passed it will be sent to the U.S. Congress and it will be a request for them to call an Article V. A constitutional Article V convention for the states to meet for one purpose and that is to propose amendments to the Constitution. And this particular resolution is for one single topic and that is for term limits on the U.S. Congress.
Leahy: Now in the resolution, you don’t specify what those limits should be. In other words what you don’t say members of the House of Representatives can only serve six terms.
Todd: Exactly. Yes. This is up to the delegates. Once they get there and debate this if they come to an agreement. That’s if they come to an agreement, then they would propose that amendment to the Constitution back to the States and it would then take 38 states to actually ratify. So any change to our Constitution whatsoever takes 38 states to ratify that change.
Leahy: And there are two ways to get it to consideration by state legislatures for ratification. read more
Even after career politicians biden, pelosi, schumer, feinstein, scotus, etc have destroyed America there will be those here who are opposed.
It has to be a constitutional amendment. A law won’t help, Biden won’t sign it, unless Nancy tells him to.
” A constitutional Article V convention for the states to meet for one purpose and that is to propose amendments to the Constitution.”
Anyone recall what happened the last time a convention was called to address one issue?
How, specifically, could it be prevented from doing the same this time?
But, WTH, our current one’s long outdated now and we need a new one, a new form of government, as it is.
Funny, when this issue was a hot topic in the 90s I was always against the idea thinking voters should decided who represents them. Now, im 100% for term limits. Too much money and corruption involved that keep these hacks in power and difficult to dislodge via elections
The congressional staff has to resign and be bared from gov. jobs to make it work.
Otherwise it will be the secretaries in the front offices running whoever gets elected like it is now.
We need some sort of relief from the career politicians. 40 or 50 years in DC is too much.
This is like asking executioner to off himself.
Won’t happen. 😉
Kung Flu.
This is not a good idea. The unintended consequences will destroy our republic for good.
We’ve had term limits for 240 years. They are called elections.