Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and other Republican lawmakers have revisited the idea of restricting the number of terms for members of Congress.

The amendment would limit senators to two six-year terms and members of the House to three two-year terms.

It is Cruz’s third attempt to introduce a constitutional change that would impose term limits, The Epoch Times reported. He suggested this idea in 2017 with Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Florida) and in 2019 with then-Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Florida). 

“The rise of political careerism in today’s Congress is a sharp departure from what the Founders intended for our federal governing bodies," Cruz said in a statement. "I have long called for this solution for the brokenness of Washington, D.C., and I will continue fighting to hold career politicians accountable. As I have done in the past, I urge my colleagues to submit this constitutional amendment to the states for speedy ratification.”

Congress, annually, is spending huge amounts of money on “giveaways for the well-connected,” Cruz claimed.

“It’s no wonder that the vast majority of Americans from every political stripe – Republicans, Democrats and independents – overwhelmingly support Congressional term limits," he added.

Other Republicans who have joined Cruz in reintroducing the Constitutional amendment are Sens. Mike Braun (R-Indiana), Pat Toomey (R-Pennsylvania), Marco Rubio (R-Florida), Todd Young (R-Indiana), and Rick Scott (R-Florida).

To become an amendment, the measure would have to pass both chambers of Congress with a two-thirds margin and be ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states.