The caucus will vote next week on a proposal that would effectively restrict the party's top committee members to three terms. But the idea has powerful opponents.
Rep. Adam Schiff , current chair of the House Intelligence Committee, cited the need to bring younger Democrats up through the ranks. | Patrick Semansky/AP PhotoDiscontent is rising among House Democrats over internal rules that could allow their committee chairs to remain in the influential posts for decades — while younger members are forced to bide their time.
“I understand there’s a need to share, particularly with a much younger caucus that we have. But I think that penalizing members for being ranking members while they’re in the minority at the expense of an opportunity to be a chairman — I don’t think that’s fair either,” said Natural Resources Committee Chair Rep.In fact, Democrats on both sides of the term-limits debate agree that Foster’s proposal is unlikely to pass a caucus-wide vote when it’s expected to come up this week.
Illustrating the complexity of the term-limits debate, some Democrats have privately complained that Jayapal herself ignored her own two-term limit by starting a second term as sole chair without counting a third when she co-chaired the progressive caucus. She’s pledged to make this term her last and to assist with a transition to a new liberal leader.
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