Kansas committee hears testimony on HCR 5001 seeking Article V convention to impose congressional term limits

A Kansas House committee on Tuesday heard hours of testimony on HCR 5001, a concurrent resolution asking Congress to call an Article V convention limited to proposing a constitutional amendment establishing term limits for members of the U.S. Congress.

Supporters told the committee the resolution would pressure Congress to act and could ultimately produce a constitutional amendment limiting how long members of the House and Senate may serve. Mike Heim of the Supervisor of Statutes office summarized the measure as “a concurrent resolution making application to Congress of the United States, for a limited national convention for the exclusive purpose of proposing an amendment establishing term limits for members of Congress.”

Proponents said public support for term limits is high and that the state should…