Enacting term limits could stifle growing congressional tenures, especially in Kansas

By: Eric Thomas

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: June 5, 2026

Words: 1,506

Last Updated: 6 days, 20 hours ago

Last week, my column aimed to answer, “How unusual is it that one party would dominate the US Senate on behalf of a state?”

(Here’s the upshot: the Republican streak in electing US senators in Kansas has been nearly unbelievable.)

While wading through the data needed to answer that question, I grew curious about term limits.

Right now, the Kansas Senate could take up a bill from the House that would …

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