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====Term limits for congress====
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[[Term limit]]s for [[Congressmen|members of Congress]] was a movement that gained a lot of traction in the early 1990s. 23 State Governments passed legislation that term limited US Congress representatives from each respective state. The [[Supreme court decisions|Supreme Court decision]] [[U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton]] in 1995 invalidated the term limit legislation found in those 23 states. [[Newt Gingrich]]'s [[Contract with America]] promised legislation in the first 100 days for a [[Article Five of the United States Constitution|constitutional amendment]] for term limits. However, the Term Limits Constitutional Amendment bill did not pass the 2/3 majority to move the bill forward and only passed with a simple majority of 227–204. It would have limited the House and Senate to 12 years total, six terms in the House, and two terms in the Senate.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/104th-congress/house-report/67/1 |title=H. Rept. 104-67 - TERM LIMITS FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Term_limits_in_the_United_States |title=Term limits in the United States }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=29 March 1995 |title=Final Vote Results for Roll Call 277 |url=https://clerk.house.gov/evs/1995/roll277.xml |website=Office of the Clerk}}. 
</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/514/779/ |title=U.S. Term Limits, Inc. V. Thornton, 514 U.S. 779 (1995) }}</ref> Today, [[U.S. Term Limits]] campaigns for 34 states to call for a [[Convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution]] to create a Term Limits amendment.