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Opinion: Term limits could push our congressmen to do more work
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President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill, Jan. 30, 2018, in Washington. - photo by Associated Press
The Times’ editorial in the Sunday, Jan. 12, edition was a much needed and explicit statement about the state of national politics. If our founding fathers had known that today's federal legislators would so forget their obligations to their constituents and assume that being elected to office was the way to almost certain permanent employment for themselves and their family members, the men who wrote our Constitution might well have included term limits as a necessary part of elective federal public service.