Politics
Congressional Staff Reveal Term Limits Could Paralyze Legislative Function and Enable PAC Takeovers
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"Say you get somebody really good that you like and they're doing everything right and then a PAC puts 30 million against them and he gets voted out or something like that. That'd be crazy, right? And so say your time's up, you just go and then a PAC appoints somebody, right? Like you don't want it to be a constant turnover, especially if you have good stuff going on."
Former congressional staffers argue that term limits would create chaos by eliminating institutional knowledge needed to navigate complex legislative processes. They warn that constant turnover would empower well-funded PACs to control elections and prevent effective governance, noting it takes members two years just to learn how Congress operates structurally.
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