{"id":44742,"date":"2010-10-13T16:27:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T21:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=44742"},"modified":"2010-10-14T15:49:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T20:49:54","slug":"hall-supports-term-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=44742","title":{"rendered":"Hall Supports Term Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=44850\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44850\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/10\/Ralph-Hall-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ralph Hall\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-44850\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; It may seem like an unlikely move.   But 87-year-old Rockwall Congressman Ralph Hall &#8212; first elected in 1980, and a longtime East Texas representative &#8212; has signed the U.S. term limits Constitutional amendment.   The measure would limit House members to three two-year terms and senators to two six year terms. Hall, now a Republican, says he introduced a term limits bill in the 90s, when he was a Democrat &#8212; but says the bill went nowhere.  According to Hall, &#8220;Even though I&#8217;ve been there thirty years, I would have term-limited myself.&#8221; He says he wouldn&#8217;t be on Capitol Hill if he could have passed the measure.  So why does he keep running?   Hall remarks that he knows and likes what he does &#8212; and that his people want him to keep doing it.  A recent Fox News poll showed nearly 80 percent approval for term limits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; It may seem like an unlikely move. But 87-year-old Rockwall Congressman Ralph Hall &#8212; first elected in 1980, and a longtime East Texas representative &#8212; has signed the U.S. term limits Constitutional amendment. The measure would limit House members to three two-year terms and senators to two six year terms. Hall, now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=44742\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hall Supports Term Limits<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 23:00:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44742"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45019,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44742\/revisions\/45019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}