President for Life? New York congressman introduces bill to abolish presidential term limits , 3rd term for Obama. If passed, could this trigger a Revolution?
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Democratic New York Rep. Jose Serrano reintroduced a bill in Congress Friday to repeal the 22nd Amendment, which places term limits on the U.S. presidency.
The bill, which has been referred to committee, would allow Barack President Obama to become the first president since Franklin Roosevelt to seek a third term in office.
H.J. Res. 15 proposes “an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.”
The bill is a reintroduction of H.J. Res. 17, which Serrano introduced in Congress in January 2011. It was referred to the House judiciary committee, but did not make it to a floor vote.
Repealing the 22nd Amendment has been a longtime goal of Serrano’s, regardless of the sitting president’s political party. Serrano proposed similar resolutionsin 1997 and 1999, during Bill Clinton’s administration, and in 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2007, during George W. Bush’s administration. He proposed the repeal again in 2009 after Obama took office.
The bill, which has been referred to committee, would allow Barack President Obama to become the first president since Franklin Roosevelt to seek a third term in office.
H.J. Res. 15 proposes “an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.”
The bill is a reintroduction of H.J. Res. 17, which Serrano introduced in Congress in January 2011. It was referred to the House judiciary committee, but did not make it to a floor vote.
Repealing the 22nd Amendment has been a longtime goal of Serrano’s, regardless of the sitting president’s political party. Serrano proposed similar resolutionsin 1997 and 1999, during Bill Clinton’s administration, and in 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2007, during George W. Bush’s administration. He proposed the repeal again in 2009 after Obama took office.
None of his proposals has ever made it to a floor vote.
Democratic Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer alsorepeatedly proposed repealing the 22nd Amendment during both the Clinton and Bush administrations.
Current Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell sponsored a bill to repeal the amendment in 1995. The 22nd Amendment was passed by Congress in 1947 and ratified by 41 states by 1951. The last president before Roosevelt to prepare for a campaign for a third term was Woodrow Wilson, who pulled out of the 1920 nominating race to avoid deadlocking the Democratic convention in San Francisco
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Firstly, Obama (or any pres for that matter) would still need to win the vote. Regardless, this bill was proposed by the same congressman when Bush was the president. So, just about everything that I expect to see in this discussion will be completely invalid. ...Sigh
I WOULD HAVE CHOSEN ANOTHER AS I AM NOT SURPRISED TO HEAR THIS. I SAW IT COMING LOMG AGO.
FORGIVE MY SHOUTING, BUT I DETEST QUESTIONS WITH ONLY A RIGHT AND WRONG ANSWER. EITHER OR AS IT WERE. MAN IS NOT A BINARY SYSTEM WITH ONLY TWO POSSIBLE OPTIONS, RIGHT OR WRONG, ONE OR NOT ONE.
Also, this bill has nothing to do with President Obama. Not only did Serrano introduce this bill four times while Bush was President (3 of those times with a Republican majority in Congress), but even if by some quirk this actually did make it out of committee, it would pretty much have to have an exception for the incumbent, just as the 22nd Amendment made an exception for Harry Truman, who was President at the time.
Sleep well. You can save your paranoia for another time.
Any other form of abolishing the 22nd Amendment would be in violation of the Constitution and would very likely cause a revolution!
Unlike 2012 election. The pain of all he's done to America hasn't hit us yet....
As you can see, I'm losing faith in the intelligence of a lot of the American people.
Still the problem is with the msm. They're more of barry's propaganda machine and way to many folks gets their info from them....
edit: Gear up.