Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of times Senators and Representatives may be elected.

Constitutional Amendment - Limits Members of the House of Representatives to six terms and Members of the Senate to two terms.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
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[H.J. Res. 98 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. J. RES. 98

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
 limit the number of times Senators and Representatives may be elected.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 18, 2008

 Mr. Kuhl of New York introduced the following joint resolution; which 
             was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
 limit the number of times Senators and Representatives may be elected.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled   (two-thirds of each House 
concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be 
valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when 
ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States 
within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. No person shall be elected as a Representative more 
than six times. An election to any part of a term for which some other 
person was elected shall not count in determining the number of times a 
person is elected.
    ``Section 2. No person shall be elected or appointed as a Senator 
more than twice. An election or appointment to any part of a term for 
which some other person was elected shall not count in determining the 
number of times a person is elected or appointed.
    ``Section 3. Only elections or appointments which occur after the 
date of ratification of this article shall count in determining the 
number of times a person is elected or appointed.''.
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