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ChampionedTerm limits / government reform

Enact congressional term limits — a constitutional amendment capping service in Congress at 12 years. Arrington introduced H.J.Res.134 in the 115th Congress to impose these limits and campaigned on it as 'the only bipartisan term limits bill.'

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ChampionedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 85%

Independently verified. The core claim is real and correctly rated. GovInfo (U.S. Government Publishing Office) PRIMARY record BILLS-115hjres134ih confirms Jodey C. Arrington was the SPONSOR (not merely a cosponsor) of H.J.Res.134 in the 115th Congress, 'Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of terms an individual may serve as a Member of Congress' (introduced May 10, 2018, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary). He sustained the effort across Congresses: the U.S. Term Limits page on Arrington confirms he cosponsored the shorter-term amendment (HJR12, 117th Congress) and states he 'has long been a supporter of term limits on Congress, previously sponsoring resolutions with terms of longer duration.' The 118th-Congress H.J.Res.11 (sponsor Ralph Norman, 43 cosponsors) is a genuine, live term-limits constitutional amendment consistent with his continued backing. This is active LEADERSHIP — introducing his own constitutional amendment plus repeated cosponsorship — which is well beyond a single supporting vote, so it maps to CHAMPIONED, not ATTEMPTED. It is not FULL: a constitutional amendment requires a two-thirds supermajority in both chambers and ratification by three-fourths of the states, and none of these resolutions advanced beyond committee referral, so term limits were never enacted. Applying the same standard to either party, sponsoring one's own amendment and repeatedly cosponsoring the effort without enactment is CHAMPIONED. Confidence 0.85 is appropriate. (Note: the cited congress.gov URL is a real, legitimate source but currently returns 403 to automated fetch; the GovInfo PRIMARY records independently substantiate the identical facts.)

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