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Attempts at repeal
According to historian Glenn W. LaFantasie of
Western Kentucky University (who was opposed to repealing the amendment), "ever since 1985, when
Ronald Reagan was serving in his second term as president, there have been repeated attempts to repeal the Twenty-second Amendment to the Constitution, which limits each president to two terms."
[10] In early 1989, during an exit interview with
Tom Brokaw of
NBC, President Reagan stated his intention to fight for the amendment's repeal.
[11] However, after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1994, his post-presidential ambitions had to be scrapped.
In addition, several congressmen, including Democrats Rep.
Barney Frank, Rep.
José E. Serrano,
[12] Rep.
Howard Berman, and Sen.
Harry Reid,
[13] and Republicans Rep.
Guy Vander Jagt,
[14] Rep.
David Dreier[15] and Sen.
Mitch McConnell[16] have introduced legislation to repeal the Twenty-second Amendment, but each resolution died before making it out of its respective committee. Other alterations have been proposed, including replacing the absolute two term limit with a limit of no more than two consecutive terms and giving Congress the power to grant a dispensation to a current or former president by way of a
supermajority vote in both houses.[
citation needed]
On January 4, 2013, Rep. José E. Serrano again introduced a resolution proposing an Amendment to repeal the Twenty-second Amendment, as he had done every two years since 1997; he had not done so during the
114th Congress as of June 2015.
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