22.11.2011 - 12:29 [ CNN ]

Can we lock Congress out?

Term limits are the only way to ensure meaningful change of our Congress. But that won‘t be easy. To impose congressional term limits, the U.S. Constitution must be amended — just as it was with the 22nd amendment, which set a term limit for our president. The problem is that absent a constitutional convention, the only way to start the process for a Constitutional amendment is that Congress — the people with a 9% approval rating — have to pass it by a two-thirds vote in each chamber before it can be sent for the required approval by three-fourths of the state legislatures.

Good luck getting Congress to agree on that.