Post by Logan on May 3, 2016 19:02:03 GMT -6
Colorado resolution seeking congressional term limits stumbles
In this age of political discontent, the Colorado legislature is considering a symbolic measure to ask for a federal constitutional convention to impose term limits on members of the U.S. House and Senate.
But in this age of gridlock, the measure appears stuck.
At its first Senate committee hearing Tuesday, Senate Joint Resolution 40 faced certain death, after three of the five committee members said they wouldn't support it ahead of the vote.
Then, committee chairman Ray Scott, a Republican from Grand Junction, postponed a vote on it. The legislative session ends on May 11.
Sen. Matt Jones, a Democrat from Louisville, called the term limits Colorado voters passed on legislators in 1990 "one of the worst things we ever did." He said it ceded institutional knowledge and power to lobbyists, damaging decorum and bipartisanship to get things done.
Read more: www.denverpost.com/news/ci_29845573/colorado-resolution-seeking-congressional-term-limits-stumbles
In this age of political discontent, the Colorado legislature is considering a symbolic measure to ask for a federal constitutional convention to impose term limits on members of the U.S. House and Senate.
But in this age of gridlock, the measure appears stuck.
At its first Senate committee hearing Tuesday, Senate Joint Resolution 40 faced certain death, after three of the five committee members said they wouldn't support it ahead of the vote.
Then, committee chairman Ray Scott, a Republican from Grand Junction, postponed a vote on it. The legislative session ends on May 11.
Sen. Matt Jones, a Democrat from Louisville, called the term limits Colorado voters passed on legislators in 1990 "one of the worst things we ever did." He said it ceded institutional knowledge and power to lobbyists, damaging decorum and bipartisanship to get things done.
Read more: www.denverpost.com/news/ci_29845573/colorado-resolution-seeking-congressional-term-limits-stumbles