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Ohio senators ask legislature to seek Article V convention to impose congressional term limits
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Senators Timken and Gavarone told the Senate Government Oversight and Reform Committee during a first hearing on Senate Joint Resolution 6 that the resolution would ask Congress to call a limited Article V convention to establish term limits for members of Congress.
Senators Timken and Gavarone told the Senate Government Oversight and Reform Committee during a first hearing on Senate Joint Resolution 6 that the resolution would ask Congress to call a limited Article V convention to establish term limits for members of the U.S. Congress.
"Senate joint resolution 6 is very simple. It applies for a limited national convention of states only for the purpose of establishing term limits. That's it," Senator Timken said in sponsor testimony.
The resolution would "appeal to the United States Congress to call for an Article 5 convention for the limited purpose of establishing term limits for members of the United States Congress," Senator Gavarone said, citing…
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