"Congress has no fitness test, no age limit, and no term limits. The Founders left exactly one check on members who can no longer serve: the election. Voters who keep returning them anyway are not exercising loyalty. They are ratifying a failure, and the republic is paying the price."
"Three sitting members of Congress show documented evidence of cognitive decline or severely impaired judgment, and all three are seeking re-election. There are no fitness tests, no age limits, and no term limits standing in their way. The only check Madison built into the system is the vote, and right now voters are not using it."
Key Facts
• California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, 87, is seeking her 19th term (38 years in Congress) and refused to say whether 100 is too old to serve.
• Waters was duped by pranksters in two separate incidents into accepting fabricated foreign-policy scenarios, including one involving a fictional nation called “Limpopo” and another involving a made-up island called “Chongo-Chango.”
• Florida Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson, 83, missed more than 43 floor votes starting in mid-April 2026, absent for roughly a month with no explanation until her staff cited “eye surgery”; she missed all committee work during the period.
• Washington, D.C., Democratic Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, 88, has served since 1991; a police report noted “early signs of dementia,” and New York Times sources describe her as “unable to function independently” and at times unable to recognize longtime colleagues.
• No mandatory cognitive or fitness tests exist for members of Congress; the Constitution sets a minimum age of 25 for the House and 30 for the Senate, with no maximum and no term limits.
• Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, 84, froze mid-sentence on camera twice, fell multiple times, and uses a wheelchair; he announced he will not seek re-election."
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