First, term limits are an issue. There is no time restraint on how long a member of Congress can serve. 87% of Americans support term limits in effect for Congress. The longest serving senator is 50 years.

More damaging is the problem of insider trading. Members of Congress should not be allowed to own stock as they have access to privileged information and too often face minimal consequences for using it to enrich themselves.

Finally, there are too many people in power selecting non-partisan issues and sliding in a partisan issue into a bill, resulting in a bill not passing that would help everybody. Congress is no longer an area to make Americans have better lives but to make it Red vs Blue. Instead of it being about our beliefs, it has turned into a party-against-party war. George Washington warned against a two-party system. Right now we are suffering not listening to his warning.

In conclusion, from the viewpoint of us young adults in America, we think if the issues we see as being no term limits in Congress, insider trading, and unnecessary partisan issues were fixed in the government, our future would have fewer concerns about what’s going on behind closed doors. We could trust we put the right people in the seat.

Brendan Crowther

American Fork