{"id":108935,"date":"2021-11-08T23:06:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T04:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=108935"},"modified":"2021-11-08T23:10:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T04:10:48","slug":"mackenzie-to-lead-hearing-on-congressional-term-limits-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=108935","title":{"rendered":"Mackenzie to Lead Hearing on Congressional Term Limits Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-Berks\/Lehigh), majority chairman of the House State Government Subcommittee on Campaign Finance and Elections, will lead a hearing on the topic of Congressional term limits. Establishing term limits for elected members of Congress would require a constitutional amendment, which could be enacted through a constitutional convention called for under Article V of the U.S. Constitution. Recent polls show an overwhelming majority of voters support term limits for U.S. senators and representatives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Mackenzie; House State Government Committee Chairman Seth Grove (R-York); other subcommittee members; along with the following testifiers who will take part virtually: Kenn Quinn, U.S. Term Limits northern regional director, and Mike Riley, U.S. Term Limits PA legislative advocate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Tuesday, Nov. 9, 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Room B-31, Main Capitol Building, Harrisburg.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LIVE WEBSTREAMING:\u00a0<\/strong>Barring any technical issues, the hearing will be streamed live at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pahousegop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.pahousegop.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636513579940000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2w8yHBXiG7dMYLU9naFuxG\">www.pahousegop.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nInformation provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nAndy Briggs<br \/>\nRepresentative Ryan Mackenzie<br \/>\n134th District<br \/>\nPennsylvania House of Representatives<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.repmackenzie.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.repmackenzie.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; WHAT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-Berks\/Lehigh), majority chairman of the House State Government Subcommittee on Campaign Finance and Elections, will lead a hearing on the topic of Congressional term limits. Establishing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=108935\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mackenzie to Lead Hearing on Congressional Term Limits Tuesday<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/rep-ryan-m.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}