{"id":2325,"date":"2020-03-11T11:46:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T11:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2020-03-11T11:46:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T11:46:57","slug":"tom-steyers-push-for-term-limits-is-a-truly-awful-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2325","title":{"rendered":"Tom Steyer\u2019s push for term limits is a truly awful idea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“A 2006 report from the National Conference of State Legislatures<\/a> examined states with term-limited lawmakers. It determined that term limits tend to increase the influence of lobbyists and lead to a \u201cdecline in civility\u201d that \u201creduced legislators\u2019 willingness and ability to compromise and engage in consensus building.\u201d
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Term-limited lawmakers, the NCSL explained, \u201chave less time to get to know and trust one another\u201d and \u201care less collegial and less likely to bond with their peers, particularly those from across the aisle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such lawmakers often do not have enough time to learn how the legislature works or to master difficult policy issues. And they can\u2019t turn to senior colleagues to give them this information because there are no senior colleagues. That \u201cforces term-limited legislators to rely on lobbyists for information,\u201d because lobbyists are able to spend years mastering legislative process and developing institutional memory about recurring policy debates.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“term limits may foster laziness<\/a> in lawmakers because, as Nyhan writes, \u201cincumbents who lack a reelection incentive can reduce the effort they devote to their jobs.\u201d He cites an empirical study<\/a> showing that term-limited lawmakers sponsor fewer bills and are more likely to miss votes.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2020\/2\/25\/21063741\/tom-steyer-term-limits-democratic-debate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“A 2006 report from the National Conference of State Legislatures examined states with term-limited lawmakers. It determined that term limits tend to increase the influence of lobbyists and lead to a \u201cdecline in civility\u201d that \u201creduced legislators\u2019 willingness and ability to compromise and engage in consensus building.\u201d<\/p>\n

Term-limited lawmakers, the NCSL explained, \u201chave less time to get to know and trust one another\u201d and \u201care less collegial and less likely to bond with their peers, particularly those from across the aisle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such lawmakers often do not have enough time to learn how the legislature works or to master difficult policy issues. And they can\u2019t turn to senior colleagues to give them this information because there are no senior colleagues. That \u201cforces term-limited legislators to rely on lobbyists for information,\u201d because lobbyists are able to spend years mastering legislative process and developing institutional memory about recurring policy debates.”<\/p>\n

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“term limits may foster laziness in lawmakers because, as Nyhan writes, \u201cincumbents who lack a reelection incentive can reduce the effort they devote to their jobs.\u201d He cites an empirical study showing that term-limited lawmakers sponsor fewer bills and are more likely to miss votes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[529],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-term-limits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}