Trump questions GOP term limits for chairs

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Trump questions GOP term limits for chairs
by Caitlin Yilek
 | August 24, 2018 07:28 PM



President Trump on Friday questioned why the Republican Party imposes term limits for committee chairs, suggesting it’s why there has been an exodus of House Republicans choosing not to defend their seats in the 2018 midterm elections.

“The House is probably tougher,” Trump said about whether Republicans will be able to hang onto their majority in the lower chamber. “We have a lot of chairmen that left because they’re chairmen for six years, and then they don’t want to stay because they can’t be chairmen.”

House Judiciary chair Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va.; Financial Services chair Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas; Appropriations chair Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J.; Oversight chair Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.; and Science, Space and Technology chair Lamar Smith, R-Texas, are among the chairmen leaving Congress. Neither Gowdy nor Frelinghuysen served six years as chairmen of the aforementioned committees. Gowdy was appointed to lead in June 2017, and Frelinghuysen took the helm in late 2016.

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The answer is simple: it's personal prestige and power, not about "service."

These guys are going to cash in while the getting's good.

They're reading the tea leaves, too. It really sucks to be in the minority in DC.