Is the number of terms for a us senator limited?

Question

I know that the US senate elections take place every two years, and each term of office lasts for six years. But are senators limited to a certain number of terms?
Thanks in advance =)

Answer 1

Neither Senators (1/3 of 100 standing for election every two years) nor Congressmen (all standing for election every two years) have Constitutionally mandated term limits. It was tried on state levels to impose federal term limits, but all successful initiatives were overturned as attempting to controvert the words of the Constitution. State offices, however, can be limited within the state depending on State Constitutions. Someday the U.S. Constitution may be amended, but it would be a hard grind to do it.

Answer 2

Wait, let me straighten you out. There are two different houses of Congress the upper house is the Senate there are two Senators from each state and they get elected for 6 year terms. The lower house of Congress is the House of Representatives. The number of Congressmen is based on the population of their states. Each congressman is elected for 2 year terms.

There is no limit to the number of terms either can serve.


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Answer 3

There is no term limitation and senators are elected every six years. Representatives are elected are elected every two years though. Although Senators are elected every six years, they are staggered so that not every senator is up for re-election at the same time.

Answer 4

Currently no, they can hold office until they day they die, assuming they can get re-elected, which for an incumbent is about a 95% certainty. They should not however in my opinion be allowed to pillage and plunder this great country of ours for more than two terms.

The real problem in America is stupidity, special interest and/or laziness of the voter. How does a person who takes bribes on video, laughs about the ineptness of the FBI and puts $100K in a freezer get elected 8 times? And then the Senate leaders yell and scream about separation of powers. Yes they are right, it is about their power and even if it is against the law, you will not thwart their power.

You have career politicians running the government, not citizen legislators. Many accuse the career corporate CEO of only working for themselves, not the stockholders. Career politicians are NO different and they seem to think they are above the law and expect preferential treatment. If the only issue to remaining in power is to obtain cash, buy some votes with special interests and have the media spotlight, then the incumbent has it easy, all at your expense.

In the Senate there are:
44 Dems averaging 20.8 years in Congress
55 Reps averaging 16.1 years in Congress

these numbers begin to make it look like career politicians are in control, who have lost touch with you the citizen and are more entrenched in their own careers.

For the Senate, if you were to use two terms or 12 years in Congress as a term limit
25 Dems would need to leave and 25 Reps would need to leave.
Those Dems are averaging 27.1 years in Congress
Those Reps averaging 24.0 years.

80% of Dems in the Senate have been there more than 12 years
58% of Repubs have.

46% of Dems in the House have been there more than 12 years
32% of Repubs have.

Ben Franklin said of congress, "They are of the People, and return again to mix with the People, having no more durable preeminence than the different Grains of Sand in an Hourglass. Such an Assembly cannot easily become dangerous to Liberty. They are the Servants of the People, sent together to do the People's Business, and promote the public Welfare; their Powers must be sufficient, or their Duties cannot be performed. They have no profitable Appointments, but a mere Payment of daily Wages, such as are scarcely equivalent to their Expences; so that, having no Chance for great Places, and enormous Salaries or Pensions, as in some Countries, there is no triguing or bribing for Elections"

If you like the current political system continue voting along partisan lines. If however you are tired of the corrupt ways of elections and would like to see Franklins words be true again, vote for change.

Our country is being run by career politicians who for the most part appear to have lost touch with what you want, and are focused on what they want.

You can change this NOW.
1. Quit your partisan sniping, it is childish and only serves to remove the focus from the real problem in America.
2. Enlist your friends and family in the fight and ask them, if they agree about Congress to do the same.
3. Vote against the person who has 12 or more combined years in Congress
4. This will require in many instances you having to vote for someone outside of your normal party, but you are a patriot and you can do what is right.

Show congress in this next election that we the people are running things in this country, not career politicians. And we are going to do what is right.

I will end now with a favorite quote of mine.

“If a legislator is "safe" from competition, or if he represents groups with the same economic and political beliefs, he does not have to change his ideas or respond to the needs of the broader population. He can rest content with a mediocre, absentee performance knowing he will be returned to office. And as he is returned year after year the seniority system gives him immense control over people from other parts of the country whose views he need not heed at all.” -Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Decisions for a Decade

Answer 5

No, many of today's senators have not worked a day in their life. They can either be defeated in an election or they have to die to get them out.

Answer 6

To my knowledge, no. Ted Kennedy has been in since the 1962. I'm from Michigan, and Carl Levin has been in since 1979. One of West Virginia's senators, Robert Byrd, has been in since 1959. So, as far as I know, there isn't any limit to their terms.

Answer 7

No. As long as they win the elections they can stay in the Senate until they die.

Answer 8

no, neither the the senate or the house have limits on the number of times they can serve.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

No.