(07-11-2022, 10:37 AM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(07-11-2022, 10:14 AM)mikesez Wrote: Say the term limit for US house was 12 years, you're coming to the end of your last term, you can't run again.  The idea is you'd have to spend the next few years still living in DC and you'd have to come whenever the Speaker called Congress into session.  You might even get assigned to committees and expected to speak.  You just wouldn't have a vote anymore.  Similar to how it works now for the members from PR and USVI.

As an example in FL, legislators that reach their term limit typically become lobbyists and part of the reason they are so good at that new job is the new legislators need them to teach certain things.  My idea would allow them to perform this job function but on the peoples' payroll instead of the private lobbyist payroll.

That sounds like something a poli-sci freshman would think of.

Well, I've never taken a single poli sci class, so, thanks!

When the Founders were in school, most students didn't have a single "major" and they called it "political philosophy" instead of "political science".  Jefferson and Madison studied this, but Hamilton just studied math apparently.  

Got any ideas a poli sci senior might think of?

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