Several Senate Republicans confirmed to The Daily Caller that they want term limits for their future chamber leaders.
How about politicians have term and age limits?
Current Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell steps down from the position in November. He’s 82, only a year older than President Joe Biden.
Texas Sen. John Cornyn, South Dakota Sen. John Thune, and Florida Sen. Rick Scott announced their candidacy for the next leader.
Cornyn is 72. Thune is 63. Scott is 71.
Not exactly spring chickens, you know?
Cornyn and Scott support term limits:
Cornyn has stated: “One reason I am running to be the next Republican Leader is because I believe the Senate needs more engagement from all of my colleagues, and that includes the opportunity for any Member to serve in Leadership. I will support a conference vote to change the rules and institute term limits for the Republican Leader.”Scott told told the Caller that Washington is currently “built on backroom deals and bad politicians getting comfortable, complacent and forgetting that they represent the people that elected them, not DC special interests.”“Republicans all across America support term limits because it’s common sense and desperately needed,” he continued. “We have a broken system and we need a dramatic sea change and someone with a turn-around background to fix it. I’ve spent my life shaking things up. We need that in Washington right now and it’s why I’m running to be Republican leader.”
Thune previously told Politico he’s “open to discussing term limits on the next Republican leader, with a critical caveat that the topic needs to be part of a broader conversation within the Senate GOP.”
Utah Sen. Mike Lee, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, and Wyoming Sen. Cynthia Lummis all support leadership term limits.
McConnell has served as Senate Republican leader since 2007. He’s been in the Senate since 1984.
Again, term and age limits, please.
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