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In article <420r0l$n6r@anarchy.io.com>, doggey@io.com (dogboy) says:

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>The staff and aides are hired by /for the congressperson. When
>the congressperson, changes, the aides and staffs do too.
>Term limits would reduce, not increase the formal power held
>by these people. The goal IS to elminate entrenchment. 

Maybe ... to some extent.  But the civil service bureaucracy remains
in place, and may have a substantial influence on policy (as a brake
on change, if nothing else).  Further, many legislative aides have
expertise that makes it difficult to let them go, and that expertise
may well be accompanied by policy preferences or simply by 
blind spots that tend to inhibit change, no matter what 
the newly elected representatives may want (or think they want,
as they may well have come into office woefully ignorant).

No flat assertion about what the impact of term limits
"will" be on power can be trusted.  NO ONE KNOWS!

The actual effect may well vary from one jurisdiction to another and
even from one policy or administrative area to another.  Only later
analysis of actual outcomes may offer real evidence one way or the
other.  Those who argue for term limits are taking much on
faith.  That faith might be rewarded ... and it might not.