Conservative lawmakers will mount a new push to call a constitutional convention aimed at creating a balanced budget amendment and establishing term limits for members of Congress in an effort to rein in what they see as a runaway federal government.

State legislators meeting at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s policy conference here last week hope to use Article V of the Constitution, which allows state legislatures to call a convention to propose new amendments.

They have broad bipartisan support, and they might reduce the hysteria of nomination battles.
Murmurs of concern swept through Washington, D.C., Friday night as news broke that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a four-time cancer survivor, was back in the hospital.

Washington (CNN)Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and Republican Rep. Francis Rooney proposed a Constitutional amendment on Thursday that would impose term limits on members of both houses of Congress.

Freshman lawmakers have revived the push for congressional term limits, hoping to spark action on a long-stalled idea on Capitol Hill.

“Michigan’s strictest-in-the-nation term limits law will force nearly 70 percent of state senators out of office in 2019 and more than 20 percent of representatives,” reports the Detroit News, “a mass turnover that is fueling renewed interest in reform.”

Of all the promises made on the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump’s vow to pass a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress might be the most daunting.

Donald Trump is ready to “drain the swamp” — that is, Capitol Hill — if he wins the presidency in November.

The Republican presidential nominee vowed Tuesday during a rally in Colorado Springs to “break the cycle of corruption” by putting the kibosh on the special interests for which Washington, D.C., is known so well.

Is it time for term limits on elected officials in Utah? Voters could be answering that question in 2016.

In Utah elected officials are free to run for the same office over and over again.

Rick Larsen says that's not the will of the people.

He says recent polls put support for term limits at 80 to 90%.

"That clearly says Utah voters are in favor of breaking the power lock they perceive can occur in government," said Larsen.