The Democrats in the House of Representatives introducing a resolution reiterating that Trump can only serve two terms as president

WASHINGTON – Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., plans to introduce a resolution in the House of Representatives on Thursday expressing support for the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, which sets presidential term limits.

Deadlines are already enshrined in the Constitution in the 22nd Amendment, so the resolution would have little tangible effect, and it is unclear whether it will get a vote in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. However, he could introduce it as a privileged resolution to force Republicans to vote on the issue.

The resolution, which NBC News obtained Wednesday, reaffirms that the 22nd Amendment “applies to a total of two terms as President of the United States” and reaffirms that it “applies to President-elect Trump.” The resolution lists a number of instances in which Trump has joked or floated the idea of ​​serving more than two terms in the White House or being a dictator.

The New York Times first reported the resolution.

At Wednesday’s meeting of the Republican Conference in the House of Representatives, as the media were led out of the room, Trump, 78, said: “I guess I won’t run again unless you say, ‘He’s so good, we should think of something else. ”

His comment was met with some chuckles throughout the room, and he noted, “The people leaving from the back of the room now will write that I said that.”

When Trump is sworn in in January, he will not be eligible for another term within the limits that have existed for more than seventy years.

The 22nd Amendment says, “No person shall be elected President more than twice,” and it also states that vice presidents who eventually become president may be elected to two terms if they have served less than two years in office for their predecessors . conditions, according to the Congressional Research Service.

Congress proposed the 22nd Amendment in 1947, when Harry Truman was president, after Franklin D. Roosevelt had served three consecutive terms and had just begun a fourth when he died in 1945. The amendment was formally ratified in 1951 after the states completed the ratification process.

To amend the Constitution and change presidential term limits, both the House of Representatives and the Senate would have to approve the amendments by a two-thirds majority. It must then be ratified by three-quarters of the states, or 38. States would also have the option to ask Congress to convene a constitutional convention, but two-thirds of states would have to agree, the report said. National Conference of State Legislatures. Trump won 34 states in this year’s elections.