Top Democrat opens door to committee term limits
A top Democrat is cracking open the door to implementing committee leadership term limits next Congress as lawmakers start to circulate proposals.
Key points
- So I hope we can do things so that people can play a lot of roles to help get things done.” Democrats are expected to take up potential changes to their rules in December, when an under-the-radar panel led by Rep.
- With House Democrats on a path to winning roughly 260 seats next Congress, DelBene also took a victory lap, touting the “great candidates” that helped Democrats overperform in 2024 and in 2026.
- And she argued that a lack of national attention on some districts where Democrats notched surprise wins had actually helped candidates by not attracting big GOP money.
Senior committee leaders and members of the Tri-Caucus have historically resisted attempts to implement term limits.
“I have to look at exactly what it is, but I think that some change might be helpful,” outgoing Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., told Semafor.
Additional details
- “There are a couple folks that weren’t on the map at all who also won, and I think they ran good campaigns, got their messaging out,” DelBene said.
- Mike Levin, D-Calif., will convene and make recommendations to the full caucus ahead of Democrats taking control of Congress next year.
- “They weren’t inundated with outside money on the Republican side pounding on them, so they were able to get their message through.”.
- We added, in fact, we sent out information asking for resources so that we could expand,” she continued.
- “I think we actually continued to expand all the way to the end.
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