Contact: James Alvarado
Georgia State Director, US Term Limits Phone: (770) 376-0772
Email: jalvarado@termlimits.co
Georgians who support Congressional term limits may sit in suspense until Thursday, the final day of this year’s state legislative session, to learn if they’ll get a payoff for two years’ worth of backbreaking work.
This assumes, of course, that a special term limits resolution, SR195, makes its way out of the Georgia House Rules Committee Tuesday morning. If committee members pass the resolution then it will move to a vote in the full house.
Georgia House Speaker David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge, and House Rules Committee Chairman John Meadows, R-Calhoun, have assured term limits’ supporters that the hearing will take place.
“There are fewer than 72 hours to go before the end of this year’s session. Between now and then, members of the state house have an opportunity to give Georgians something they have long wanted,” said Sean Grehalva, Southeast Regional Director for U.S. Term Limits.
“If members of the state house fail to act they will have thumbed their noses at Georgia’s voters and will not have acted in accordance with their constituents’ desires,” Grehalva added.
More than 84 percent of Georgians polled said they support imposing term limits on members of Congress.
If passed, the resolution would apply for a constitutional amendment proposal convention to be held that would count toward a 34-state requirement, as outlined in Article V of the U.S. Constitution.
Delegates at this convention of the states would discuss whether term limits for Congress are in the country’s best interests. This could eventually lead to a Constitutional amendment that would limit the number of terms a U.S. Senator or a member of the U.S. House could serve.
Members of the Georgia Senate passed the resolution in March of last year, but that same resolution has sat in the Georgia House’s Rules Committee ever since.
Two of Georgia’s neighbors, Alabama and Florida, have already passed resolutions of their own, and other states are well on their way to doing the same.
Again — this resolution would ensure Georgia and its 10 million residents don’t get left out of this important conversation.
Members of the Georgia House’s Rules Committee are scheduled to discuss and decide the resolution’s fate at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta in Room 341.
Congressional term limits supporters are invited to attend the hearing and offer their support. They are asked to show up at 8 a.m.
Members of the press are also invited to attend. Members of U.S. Term Limits are available for media interviews.
U.S. Term Limits is the largest grassroots term limits advocacy group in the country. We connect term limits supporters with their legislators and work to pass term limits on the U.S. Congress. Find out more at termlimits.org
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