s. An item veto would allow the president to veto these individual items without vetoing the entire bill. The only problem with this suggestion is that it would effectively require a constitutional amendment, since the Constitution currently requires the president to veto the entire bill.
A second suggestion would be imposing uniform term limits on members of Congress. Historically, senators and congressmen have been allowed to serve as many terms as their constituents wish. Although this has resulted in some fine legislators, it has more often led to legislators who are out of touch with the real issues facing the country as a whole. The main goal in the lives of these legislators is to get reelected as often as possible. Serving in Congress becomes a career choice. The veteran legislators are also usually the ones who respond to special interests the most, since they know that special interest money is vital for reelection. One problem with imposing term limits is that most legislators will have relatively little exper
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