I thought a long time about term limits I mean partly because I've been here for a while

partly because I grew up in a generation with a different structure of politics.

But the truth is prior to 1890 every Congress was over 50% freshman and while people

like all right I think I know who this is Anna do you yeah like 90% sure, and I'm going to go for it.

Newt Gingrich, final answer.

You get it.

That's a good year there, Nick.

This is from when Gingrich was a Republican speaker of the House in 1995,

when he was talking about a proposed constitutional amendment.

This amendment was attempting to put term limits on the U.S US Congress for the first time since the Constitution

was ratified.

That we could in fact find a reasonable way to run the US Congress closer to the American people with a greater range of

diversity and with a tremendous constant increase of people showing up who

have new ideas new approaches approaches, and new experience.

And term limits, to be clear, as in a member of Congress

can only serve a certain number of terms.

And after that, they're ineligible to run for office again.

Correct. And the debate here was about the length of those term limits.

Some people wanted to limit members of the House to three two-year terms, otherwise known as six years.

Others, like Gingrich, said he would settle for nothing less than a 12-year term limit.

I think if you had a leadership for this country that had only a six-year learning

curve that is just too short. I mean I don't know that I'm all that smart but as

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