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Insurgents Give Term Limits New Life

By Greg Giroux
Roll Call Staff
March 9, 2010, Midnight

In what is shaping up to be a turbulent election year, with voters disgusted with Congress and disenchanted with both major political parties, could term limits re-emerge as a salient issue this year?

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