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Members of the U.S. House of Representatives serve two-year terms. A representative must be at least 25, a U.S. citizen for at least seven years and live in the state they represent.
Members of the House serve a fixed term of two years, with each seat up for election before the start of the next Congress. Special elections also occur when a seat is vacated early enough. The House's composition was established by Article One of the United States Constitution.
Currently, Representatives of the U.S. House have two year terms and may be reelected indefinitely. U.S. Senators are elected to six year terms and may be reelected indefinitely. Our proposal in the U.S. Congress is to limit the total amount of time a senator may serve to a lifetime 12-years and house reps to a lifetime of 6-years.
Implementing congressional term limits poses significant constitutional challenges. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton established that only a constitutional amendment could enable such limits, nullifying state-imposed restrictions. Article V of the Constitution provides two paths for amendments:
The proposed term-limits amendments introduced in the 118th Congress generally are similar. The joint resolutions would limit eligibility to serve in the House of Representatives to three or six terms, counting as one term an election to fill a vacancy if the Representative served for more than one year. Similarly, the proposals would restrict
Also referred to as a congressman or congresswoman, each representative is elected to a two-year term serving the people of a specific congressional district. Among other duties, representatives introduce bills and resolutions, offer amendments and serve on committees.
Members in the House are called representatives. Each state receives representation in the House in proportion to the size of its population but is entitled to at least one representative. There are currently 435 representatives, a number fixed by law since 1911.
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives serve two-year terms. All 435 House seats are up for election every midterm and presidential election year. A representative must be at least 25, a U.S. citizen for at least seven years, and live in the state he or she represents.
The average length of service completed at the opening of the 118th Congress (2023-2025) was 8.5 years for representatives and 11.2 years for senators. Many term-limit proposals would limit both houses to 12 years of service, something already accomplished by our electoral system.
U.S. House of Representatives term length 1967-2021. In the 117th Congress, 42.7 percent of members of the House of Representatives had already served one to three terms in the House. In the...