Oklahoma House Rules Committee passes joint resolution to call for term limits in Congress

The Oklahoma House of Representatives Rules Committee passed House Joint Resolution 1032 on Thursday.

The legislation calls for Oklahoma to join with other states in calling for a convention to propose term limits on members of the United States Congress.

The Oklahoma Legislature of Oklahoma hereby makes an application to Congress, as provided by Article V of the Constitution of the United States of America, to call a convention limited to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America to set a limit on the number of terms that a person may be elected as a Member of the United States House of Representatives and to set a limit on the number of terms that a person may be elected as a Member of the United States Senate.

—  House Joint Resolution 1032

A similar bill, Senate Joint Resolution 14, was introduced in the Oklahoma Senate.

The House Rules Committee passed HJR 1032 by a vote of 8-2. It now heads to the full House for a vote.

A recent poll showed 73 percent of Oklahoma voters favor an amendment imposing term limits on Congress.

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