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Read more here.<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\nA KEY LIEUTENANT<\/strong>\u00a0to Senate President Karen Spilka is proposing a rule change \u2014 with her apparent blessing \u2014 that would scrap term limits on the chamber\u2019s president.\r\n\r\nThe proposal would end a rule limiting the Senate president to eight consecutive years in power that\u2019s been in place for three decades. It would put the Senate in line with the House, which has gone back and forth on the issue, but has not had a term limit for the House Speaker since 2015.\r\n\r\nTerm limits can serve as a counterweight to that the power dynamic, said Geoff Foster, executive director of Common Cause Massachusetts, which opposes the proposed rule change.\r\n\r\n\u201cTerm limits help ensure there is more input from every member in the body,\u201d said Foster. \u201cWe think it\u2019s important to make sure that every senator has relatively similar influence, and we do know in the past that term limits helped ensure there\u2019s at least a regular transfer of power."}}]},"yoast_head":"\nKey lawmaker proposes ending term limits for Senate president - Common Cause Massachusetts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/press-releases\/key-lawmaker-proposes-ending-term-limits-for-senate-president\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Key lawmaker proposes ending term limits for Senate president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/press\/key-lawmaker-proposes-ending-term-limits-for-senate-president\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause Massachusetts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/common-cause-share-image.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/press-releases\/key-lawmaker-proposes-ending-term-limits-for-senate-president\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/press-releases\/key-lawmaker-proposes-ending-term-limits-for-senate-president\/\",\"name\":\"Key lawmaker proposes ending term limits for Senate president - 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