Up next a senate panel looks at the pros and cons of setting term limits for advocate. Advocates argue that term limits would allow them to spend time raising money for reelection. We hear from senator jim demint at this subcommittee hearing on the constitution. Good afternoon. This hearing is called to order. I apologize that we are slightly delayed. We had a series of votes on the senate floor. But it is good now to convene the hearing. Let me begin by thanking all of you for attending. And thank youing senator hirono oh efor working with plea and my staff to convene the hearing and bring the witnesses together. The topic before us is one, i believe, of great importance. The need for term limits for members of congress so that we begin to fix what is broken here in washington politics. Before i introduce our first panel id like to explain why weve organized todays hearing. The 2016 election, the American People made a resounding call to drain the swamp. That is modern washington. And
Weve organized todays hearing. The 2016 election, the American People made a resounding call to drain the swamp. That is modern washington. And sadly this is a bipartisan problem. The American People have lost confidence in washington and especially in congress. And it isnt hard to see why. Enmeshed in back room deals and broken promises, our capitol has too often become a political playground for the powerful and well connected. For members of the permanent Political Class looking to accumulate more and more power at the expense of american taxpayers. As part of his promise to drain the swamp, President Trump strongly endorsed and campaigned on passing congressional term limits. Though our founders didnt include term limits in the constitution, they feared the creation of a permanent Political Class that existed parallel to rather than within american society. As Benjamin Franklin observed, quote, in free governments, the rulers are the servants. And the people their superiors. For th
Cold and weve got single digit temperatures in the northern and western suburbs. The big story, of course is the winter storm watch and that approaching noreaster and right now all coastal counties in delaware and south jersey are under a storm watch. This starts this evening, goes all the way until thursday evening and now an advisory has been added in the rest of the south jersey counties all the way up to the i95 corridor. And dover, delaware and kent county delaware also included. This is where most of the snow will likely fall. Although its possible that philadelphia and some parts of southeastern pennsylvania also get something. Ahead of all of this were actually looking at sunshine a little later this morning to start out. And then this cloud cover that you can see welling up and pushing north toward Raleigh North Carolina and into virginia shortly after that will start to overtake us and youre starting to see a little precipitation down south. The outer reaches of the noreaster
Northwest of pemberton youll hear the downpours in a few seconds. Moderate showers moving through there. This is on the move. Look, its dry now for vineland, morris river. Showers have already cleared cape may. To the south, you see rain moving in this morning and especially this afternoon. Well see heavier downpours during the afternoon into the evening commute. Youll definitely need your rain gear today. 52, rain in new jerseyment 54 in the Lehigh Valley. Rain showers in philadelphia, 53, winds at 15 miles per hour. A little stronger than the last hour. This afternoon, not much of a warmup. The biggest warmup will come this evening. Well get the heavy downpours in the afternoon. Theyll let up this evening. Thats when well see temperatures in the upper 50s for delaware. 57 for the suburbs. At the shore, 57 degrees with gusty winds. The winds will be stronger coming off the ocean at the shore. Ill break it down hour by hour when im back in ten minutes. Lets see how the rain is affectin
Marquis de lafayette hotel. The rain has already moved through cape may. Not to worry, theres more on the way. The showers were fast moving. We saw a brief shower move through just south of sea isle city. The main action is inland. Pottstown, youre getting rain. Its quickly moving toward reading and coo tstown. Allentown area is dry for now. Trenton is drying out, but Hopewell Township is getting rain as it just clears burlington and abington this morning. Thats for now. This is later this morning and this afternoon. The system that was here yesterday will be swinging in bringing wind and rain. Youll need the rain gear. Temperatures, theyre going to be Holding Steady for most of the day. 54 now in the Lehigh Valley. Still waiting for rain. Thats why the temperature has creeped up. 53 in delaware. And 53 in philadelphia. High temperatures will be in the 50s later on today. 55 degrees with new jersey seeing rain. A chance of some thunderstorms. Theres a chance youll see some of the storm