Common Ground: Inside the Latest Effort to Establish Congressional Term Limits

The Bret Baier Podcast

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🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Establishing term limits on congressional seats isn’t a new idea, but that hasn’t stopped another bipartisan effort to do just that from gaining traction. In this Common Ground segment, Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis and former Democratic Maryland Representative David Trone joined Bret to discuss their plan to establish congressional term limits, responding to concerns about the proposal and explaining how they plan to succeed, despite numerous past attempts to do so failing. This episode first aired on November 20th, 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.5	Welcome to the Brett Bear podcast. I'm Brett Bear.
0:47.4	Today I'm revisiting an important conversation from our archives.
0:51.8	The general public does not believe that politicians ought to come up here and just
0:56.3	live on the federal government. The founders did not, the Constitution did not intend that.
1:02.7	We have to start liberating politicians to speak the truth. I think we need term limits to provide
1:08.3	an incentive to do so. The effort to end congressional careerism, we're talking about term limits.
1:14.3	Our guests are calling for a congressional amendment to solidify term limits.
1:18.5	Joining us, Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis and former Maryland Democratic Congressman
1:23.8	David Trone.
1:24.9	Gentlemen, thanks for being here.
1:26.5	This is a big issue.
1:27.8	It's talked about pretty much every election.
1:30.7	Governor, there's a lot of people who say this has to happen now.
1:34.6	Yeah, absolutely.
1:35.2	And what we're doing is we're working through the states.
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