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Whatever happened to your commitment to term limits?

Asked 10 weeks 3 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
Why has Congress not acted to open the Federal employee health care system up to private individuals and businesses. This was a promise the Democrats made when they took Congress in 2006. It would cost us nothing to do this, and it would provide a means for individuals and employers to obtain health care insurance at reasonable rates.
Asked by: David Stoddard from Silver Spring, MD. Received 20 Votes.
Categories: Health. Tags: health care · insurance · promises.

Listen to: U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)

What Americans want is to make sure they have choices like their Members of Congress have. Members of Congress have private health care choices. And with the Healthy Americans Act we have now been able to get a significant group of senators, both Republicans and Democrats, to show that for the amount of money that’s being spent on health care today, according to the budget experts, it’s possible for all Americans to have similar choices.

Answered on Jun 27th, 2008 More