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Whatever happened to your commitment to term limits?

Asked 10 weeks 5 days ago of U.S. Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-OH)
by john chappell from Willoughby, OH

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Whatever happened to your commitment to term limits?
Asked by: john chappell from Willoughby, OH. Received 22 Votes.
Categories: Ethics · Money & Politics. Tags: broken promises · campaign promises · congressional distrust · Elections · ethics · politics · promises.

Listen to: U.S. Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-OH)

Well, term limits was part of the ‘Contract With America’, we had a vote on the floor that would have made federal term limits to 12 years, 6 terms, because there was a court case out in California that indicated that the state referendums like in Ohio were unconstitutional. It failed and as a result we don’t have federal term limits. And now that I’ve been here for a little bit I see that my opinion, two opinions, I think term limits has ruined the state legislature in Ohio and given us a lot of bad government.

Answered on Jul 28th, 2008 More
What are you willing to do to make sure that the remainder of the 110th Congress is productive considering it is an election year? What will your legislative priorities be?
Asked by: elvin from Boston, MA. Received 16 Votes.
Categories: Campaign 2008. Tags: 110th Congress · election year · Elections · legislation · priorities.

Listen to: U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

Democrats have returned for this second session of this Congress reinvigorated and ready to tackle the problems challenging our country. We come back to this new direction Congress focusing on the economy. It has been clear for the past few weeks that all sectors of the economic world, all shades of opinion in the economic world are saying to us that a stimulus is needed to avoid a downturn or to worsen the situation.

Answered on Jan 16th, 2008 More