Being a politician was never meant to be a life long career. There is also something to be said about passing the torch to the next generation instead of clinging to power until the very end. I strongly support term limits for both chambers of Congress - two terms for the Senate and six terms for the House, 12 years in total for each. Term limits and/or age limits for Supreme Court Justices should also be instituted, as should strengthening ethics laws for Supreme Court Justices.

We must also immediately ban stock trading for all members of Congress. It is no secret members of Congress are given access to sensitive information that the public does not have. Buying & selling of stocks should not be allowed for people with this exclusive access. Members of Congress are getting rich from insider trading and it is clearly affecting their votes. Many are invested in weapons manufacturers, companies that are polluting our environment, and corporations that come to Congress asking for corporate welfare or multimillion dollar government contracts. Banning stock trading is a common sense anti-corruption proposal the vast majority of Americans agree with. I can work with other members of Congress who are serious about stock trading reform to get it passed into law.

Additional legislative guardrails, such as banning members of Congress from working as lobbyists after leaving office, can be put in place to ensure corruption is impossible to commit rather than hoping our leaders do the right thing.