The debate over Congressional term limits, explained

This appeared in The Millennial Sourc

It has been a consistent fact for decades in American politics that Congress is unpopular and that implementing term limits for members of Congress is popular.

At the age of 87, Alaska’s Representative Don Young, a Republican, is the longest-serving member of either chamber of Congress, having first assumed office in 1973. Young is closely followed by Senator Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, and Senator Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, who both entered Congress in 1975. Leahy is 80 and Grassley is 87.

With President Joe Biden, 78, recently becoming the oldest sitting president in the history of the United States, the age of America’s aging politicians has become a regular focus of attention. Since the ratification of the 22ndAmendment to the Constitution in 1951, presidents have been limited to two terms, but there are no such term limits for the legislative (or judicial) branch of the government.

With the rapid advance in technology over the last few decades and the changing face of the nation’s electorate, some observers have argued that term limits could help bring in people with fresh perspectives who would be better equipped to legislate in the modern era. Term limits, advocates contend, would also help limit entrenched power and…