Debate Primer: Congressional Term Limits

This week, Political Union will debate whether the US Congress should have term limits.

Enough Is Enough: It’s Time To Impose Term Limits on Congress by former Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell for The Hill. Piece length is about 1,100 words.

Congressional Term Limits Are a Bad Idea by political scientist Lee Drutman in Vox. The piece is around 750 words.

How To Term-Limit Congress by Doug Bandow for the Cato Institute. This piece talks about why term-limiting Congress is so difficult to enact and argues that there is a way to make the process easier. The article is about 1,400 words.

Term Limits On Member Of Congress: Popular In Theory And Ineffective In Practice by NBC News. This short video features a Northwestern professor and is about two and a half minutes long.

Representative Tim Burchett Introduces Bill To Implement Term Limits for New Members of Congress by WBIR News. This news story is around 400 words.

"United States Capitol" by Phil Roeder is licensed under CC BY 2.0