[gonehome]

I’m with you on campaign finance reform, but term limits have knock on effects that can create bad incentives.

Congress is already a farm league for K street and would be even more so with term limits. More experienced lobbyists would have more leverage with term limited newbies in the government.

That’s not to say there are no negatives to long serving clueless members, but term limits may not be better.

[mech422]

Term limits don't necessarily have to be one term. I was sorta thinking 8 years like the pres. or maybe 10 for an even decade. That would give freshmen time to learn the ropes, but not long enough to get too ensconced. Especially since they still have to win re-election.

[amanaplanacanal]

Agreed. I'm not sure having tons of new people every 2 years that have no idea how Washington works would be a good thing. We just had a president who had no idea, and that was not so good.

I used to be a big supporter of term limits for congress, but changed my mind a while ago.