Congress
The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive exposition why the United States congress must look into the issue of term limit for the members of the house. Primarily, this will include an approach whose end is to find a balance in the current gaps within the public administration system and to set in place certain key ethical regulations to help reform the system without necessarily setting a congressional term limit.
In the past decades, the United States public has rendered the concern that the members of the congress should not service for unlimited term because such an action tends to lead to complacency and risk of abuse of office (Caress & Kunioka, 2012). However, it is important to note that this has not been practically applicable to the congress because some of the shortcomings of limiting term limit include that the law making process requires experienced legislators. The problem that comes with regulation of congressional term limit is that the same congress is expected to enforce the rules that would be enacted (Caress & Kunioka, 2012). This analysis is opposed to the idea of limiting the terms of congress serve and render alternative solutions as follows: in order to provide a working solution to this problem, the reform advocacy would have to adopt a legislative approach towards governance and proper ethical regulation so that congressmen do not engage in abuse of office.
The legislative intervention would take an area approach that would include the amendment of the federal law on conflict of interest to cover the members of the congress. The second action would be to expand the aspect of disclosure when it comes to financial details of the congress in order to enable public scrutiny. The final element of this reform process is to create a strong public administration enforcement agency on matters of oversight to ensure that the members of the congress perform as required.
References
Caress, S. M., & Kunioka, T. (2012). Term limits and their consequences: The aftermath of legislative reform. Albany: State University of New York Press.
