Common Ground: Is it Time to Establish Congressional Term Limits?
The Bret Baier Podcast
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4.1 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Fox News Podcasts Presents the Brett Bear Podcasts with Fox News Chief Political Anchor, Brett Bear. |
| 0:15.0 | The general public does not believe that politicians ought to come up here and just live on the federal government. |
| 0:22.1 | The founders did not, in the Constitution, did not intend that. |
| 0:26.1 | We have to start liberating politicians to speak the truth. |
| 0:29.4 | I think we need term limits to provide an incentive to do so. |
| 0:33.7 | The effort to end congressional careerism. We're talking about term limits. |
| 0:41.8 | Our guests are calling for a congressional amendment to solidify term limits. |
| 0:48.2 | Joining us, Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis and former Maryland Democratic Congressman David Trone. |
| 0:49.3 | Gentlemen, thanks for being here. |
| 0:51.0 | This is a big issue. |
| 0:53.5 | It's talked about pretty much every election. |
| 0:57.5 | Governor, there's a lot of people who say this has to happen now. |
| 1:00.5 | Yeah, absolutely. And what we're doing is we're working through the states. |
| 1:05.4 | We know people in Congress are not going to be interested in ejecting themselves out of office. |
| 1:09.9 | So Article 5 of the Constitution provides a pathway to states to propose an amendment. |
| 1:11.4 | This is a bottom-up movement. |
| 1:17.3 | Here's a thing, Brett, Republican Democrat, rich, poor, black, right, huge support for term limits across the board. Very few things unite the American electorate in this divided era of politics |
| 1:22.7 | more than the need for term limits. So let me do the pushback, Congressman, and that is somebody gets up on Capitol Hill. |
| 1:30.3 | They finally figure out the way that this place operates, which is not easy to do if you've not been up there. |
| 1:36.2 | And you finally get there, and then you're term limited. |
| 1:40.5 | So what's the benefit versus the negative? |
| 1:46.0 | I guess you kind of think about, is it working now? Well, that's pretty easy. |
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