Age Caps for Congress

[candycorn]

A whopping 8 out of 10 support age caps for Congress. I'm surprised by this frankly. I thought it would be majority but 80% in this atmosphere is like 100% in others.

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/07/nx-s1-5806294/congress-age-caps-term-limits-npr-poll

From the piece....

While both ideas are hypothetical — neither is being seriously considered by Congress — support for each cuts across many backgrounds and party lines. The poll found that 78% of Democrats support both age caps and term limits. Eighty-three percent of Republicans backed maximum age limits, and nearly 9 in 10 supported term limits.

As for term limits; I'm a firm "no" on that. For one thing, if you have a really good, effective lawmaker...why would you want to arbitrarily have to get rid of her or him? We had a good mayor in Houston who was term limited out of office. Since he left, the city's debt has exploded (not all the fault of his successors), layoffs and furloughs have happened, etc...

We have elections on the regular. That is how you limit someone's term. Now if you want to set it at 20 years...I'll be happy to entertain that.

 

[LibertyWeeps]

Seeing as these people get into politics in their 20s and 30s, I think 50 or 55 should be the cut off age for ALL political positions, except president. President should have a cut off age of 60-65.

They should ALL have to live by the same rules WE THE PEOPLE do.....

*Substandard wages
*NO cost of living raises
*Food and housing we can't afford
*Corrupt healthcare we can't afford or get
*Being forced out of the job market after 50
etc.....

Hell........If I'd known I could be in politics until the day I die.........I'd have gotten into it in my 20s!!!

 

[rightwinger]

Let the voters decide how old their representative should be

 

[LibertyWeeps]

Let the voters decide how old their representative should be

Isn't that what we are trying to get done????

 

[petro]

Congressional critters always resist what the voters want.

 

[braalian]

Mandatory retirement at 70

 

[Polishprince]

Telling old mf'ers to go F themselves and they don't matter any more sounds like a liberal idea. What's next , mandatory euthanasia once someone reaches their golden years, so that greedy government can collect the death tax?

 

[braalian]

Telling old mf'ers to go F themselves and they don't matter any more sounds like a liberal idea. What's next , mandatory euthanasia once someone reaches their golden years, so that greedy government can collect the death tax?

They can’t satisfactorily perform their job functions after 70. It’s a matter of safety and efficiency

 

[candycorn]

Telling old mf'ers to go F themselves and they don't matter any more sounds like a liberal idea. What's next , mandatory euthanasia once someone reaches their golden years, so that greedy government can collect the death tax?

 

[candycorn]

Well, I think its important to state the distinction that you don't have to retire on your 70th or 75th birthday. But you can't stand for re-election once you're past that age.

 

[JoeB131]

Let the voters decide how old their representative should be

I disagree.

The problem is the Founders never envisioned a world where people routinely live well into their 80s.

We can see with both Biden and Trump the problem of letting people serve long after they should have retired in any other field.

 

[rightwinger]

I disagree.

The problem is the Founders never envisioned a world where people routinely live well into their 80s.

We can see with both Biden and Trump the problem of letting people serve long after they should have retired in any other field.

Ben Franklin was in his 80s

 

[JoeB131]

Ben Franklyn was in his 80s

As were Adams and Jefferson, but they long retired from public life before then.

 

[Polishprince]

They can’t satisfactorily perform their job functions after 70. It’s a matter of safety and efficiency

How do you figure this?

The liberal media pointed how that President Biden was sharp as a tack for years, even though he was well past that age.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Mandatory retirement at 70

thats it right there....especially for President and VP....

 

[WorldWatcher]

IMHO, the problem isn't not term limits or age.

The problem is incumbancy.

Here is an odd way I'd like things to work. Now bear with me here.

#1 No elected official in the Congress or the President is eligible for election in any other Federal elected position until at least 1 year has passed from the end of their current or 1 year after leaving their current Federally elected position through retirement, resignation, or expulsion.

#2 No elected official may campaign or raise campaign funds while holding any Federally elected office.
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There would be no term limits on Presidents or members of Congress, however no individual may serve consecutive terms in any Federal elected position even if the positions are different.

That means the President and members of Congress must leave the White House and Congress for at least 1 year before they can run for election again.

There would be no "incumbent" advantage as each seat starts with a clean slate.

Maybe if Presidents and members of Congress were more concerned about doing their jobs instead of raising campaign funds on the taxpayers time and running for reelection. Get elected, do your job, leave and run again after a break on your own time.

WW

 

[luiza]

Should be irrelevant very soon --- 3 to 5 years max -- given the state of cutting edge research into cell anti-ageing .

Life expectancy should quickly double from current which is another fact that Deep State keeps very quiet about for obvious reasons .

 

[Hellokitty]

A whopping 8 out of 10 support age caps for Congress. I'm surprised by this frankly. I thought it would be majority but 80% in this atmosphere is like 100% in others.

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/07/nx-s1-5806294/congress-age-caps-term-limits-npr-poll

From the piece....

While both ideas are hypothetical — neither is being seriously considered by Congress — support for each cuts across many backgrounds and party lines. The poll found that 78% of Democrats support both age caps and term limits. Eighty-three percent of Republicans backed maximum age limits, and nearly 9 in 10 supported term limits.

As for term limits; I'm a firm "no" on that. For one thing, if you have a really good, effective lawmaker...why would you want to arbitrarily have to get rid of her or him? We had a good mayor in Houston who was term limited out of office. Since he left, the city's debt has exploded (not all the fault of his successors), layoffs and furloughs have happened, etc...

We have elections on the regular. That is how you limit someone's term. Now if you want to set it at 20 years...I'll be happy to entertain that.

I'd be more in favor of term limits.

 

[Darkwind]

A whopping 8 out of 10 support age caps for Congress. I'm surprised by this frankly. I thought it would be majority but 80% in this atmosphere is like 100% in others.

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/07/nx-s1-5806294/congress-age-caps-term-limits-npr-poll

From the piece....

While both ideas are hypothetical — neither is being seriously considered by Congress — support for each cuts across many backgrounds and party lines. The poll found that 78% of Democrats support both age caps and term limits. Eighty-three percent of Republicans backed maximum age limits, and nearly 9 in 10 supported term limits.

As for term limits; I'm a firm "no" on that. For one thing, if you have a really good, effective lawmaker...why would you want to arbitrarily have to get rid of her or him? We had a good mayor in Houston who was term limited out of office. Since he left, the city's debt has exploded (not all the fault of his successors), layoffs and furloughs have happened, etc...

We have elections on the regular. That is how you limit someone's term. Now if you want to set it at 20 years...I'll be happy to entertain that.

Over 80% of Americans support the SAVE Act. Let's see you square that circle with regard to popularity and Congress working for the people.

As for age limits, I think that 70 should be the cap.

It is 70 that SS sets the full retirement age. Seems like a good point to say, "This far, no further."

 

[candycorn]

IMHO, the problem isn't not term limits or age.

The problem is incumbancy.

Here is an odd way I'd like things to work. Now bear with me here.

#1 No elected official in the Congress or the President is eligible for election in any other Federal elected position until at least 1 year has passed from the end of their current or 1 year after leaving their current Federally elected position through retirement, resignation, or expulsion.

#2 No elected official may campaign or raise campaign funds while holding any Federally elected office.
.
.
.
.
There would be no term limits on Presidents or members of Congress, however no individual may serve consecutive terms in any Federal elected position even if the positions are different.

That means the President and members of Congress must leave the White House and Congress for at least 1 year before they can run for election again.

There would be no "incumbent" advantage as each seat starts with a clean slate.

Maybe if Presidents and members of Congress were more concerned about doing their jobs instead of raising campaign funds on the taxpayers time and running for reelection. Get elected, do your job, leave and run again after a break on your own time.

WW

You ever try to explain AI or socail media to a 75 year old? With such matters often the focus of legislation, it would help to have someone who grew up using a computer, is used to the predatory nature of hackers, scammers, etc...