will hold a hearing on term limits and two of the witnesses will be testifying at that anding, casey burgat neck tomboulides. they will be with us in this final hour of the washington journal as we talk about term

casey burgat with the r street institute, senior fellow. nick tomboulides. 1995.s back to what was that case about? what happened is voters in 23 states passed initiatives at the ballot box to turn limit their members of congress. if you lived in florida, you would have gone to the about box and said yes. you amended the florida constitution to say that now florida's congressional term limits.s sometimes they were state amendments, sometimes they were statutes. that was appealed to the supreme court. decision, theplit supreme court ruled that those state imposed term limits were unconstitutional. for term limits to happen, it has to be an amendment to the federal constitution. it has to be what we are working on today. host: we hear about bills being proposed in congress for term limits. you don't think that will be upheld by the courts? will not be upheld if it is a statute. if it is a constitutional amendment, if that gets a two thirds approval from the house and the senate, then it will go to the states for ratification, and if 38 states

casey burgat with the r street institute, senior fellow.k tomboulides. 1995.s back to what was that case about? what happened is voters in 23 states passed initiatives at the ballot box to turn limit their members of congress. if you lived in florida, you would have gone to the about box and said yes. you amended the florida constitution to say that now florida's congressional term limits.s sometimes they were state amendments, sometimes they were statutes. that was appealed to the supreme court. decision, theplit supreme court ruled that those state imposed term limits were unconstitutional. for term limits to happen, it has to be an amendment to the federal constitution. it has to be what we are working on today. host: we hear about bills being proposed in congress for term limits. you don't think that will be upheld by the courts? will not be upheld if it is a statute. if it is a constitutional amendment, if that gets a two thirds approval from the house and the senate, then it will go to the states for ratification, and if 38 states rat