Word: turnoveritis
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Both residences, however, share a high student turnover rate.
"Every semester has turnover. Character [of Jordan] changes every semester rather than every few years [as in the Houses]," Coleman said.
Since more than 80 percent of members typically seek reelection in a given year, the turnover rate in Congress is far lower than at other times in American history. As a result, the power of special interests, who confer these electoral advantages on the incumbents, has steadily increased.
The largest turnover in the House of Representatives in the 20th century occurred in 1932. The next session of Congress, the one with the most first-term representatives of any Congress since the 19th century, enacted a wide array of reforms that forever transformed American government.
Nor would enacting term limits shift the balance of power within the federal government towards the President, as many opponents of term limits contend. The turnover in Congress was far higher during the latter part of the 19th century than in the decades since World War II. Yet the 1870s...