If it was up to me the whole Article V push would have been for Congressional term limits, not a balanced budget amendment. I’ve been working on the BBA because it had a head start — 17 states. I’ll take Article V where I can find it. Now Yvette Herrell of New Mexico has put me in contact with a Kansas City lawyer named Aaron Cook, who is trying to start an Article V term limits campaign. I’ll get involved, but not at the expense of the BBA Task Force. First things first. But if we do get to 34, I want Round Two — term limits — to take off immediately, feeding off the success of the BBA movement. Like the BBA, an Article V term limits movement would have broad, bipartisan support. If an Article V movement is supported by both Democrats and Republicans, it has a chance. If not, fuggedaboutit. That’s a cold fact. Maybe sometime in the future you could do something like repealing the 16th Amendment, but not for Round Two. The people, and the politicians, must grow familiar and comfortable with Article V, and bipartisan support is necessary for that.
I’ve got a little ego in volved here. 25 years ago I introduced what I believe is the first Article V Reso dealing with congressional term limits. So if Lew Uhler is the Father of the BBA, I want to be the Father of term limits.
If that happened I would die a happy man.
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