IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1570 
Reaffirming the validity and applicability of the Twenty-second Amendment. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 14, 2024 
Mr. GOLDMAN of New York submitted the following resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
RESOLUTION 
Reaffirming the validity and applicability of the Twenty- 
second Amendment. 
Whereas, President-elect Donald Trump told Republican 
members of the House of Representatives, on November 
13, 2024, that ‘‘I suspect I won’t be running again un-
less you say he’s so good we got to figure something else 
out.’’; 
Whereas, on July 26, 2024, President-elect Trump told 
attendees of a conservative Christian event that they 
‘‘won’t have to vote anymore’’ if he is elected in Novem-
ber, adding ‘‘it’ll be fixed so good, you’re not going to 
have to vote’’; 
Whereas, on May 19, 2024, President-elect Trump openly 
mused about serving a third Presidential term while 
speaking to the National Rifle Association, asking the 
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crowd ‘‘I don’t know, are we going to be considered 
three-term or two-term?’’, and ‘‘are we three term or two 
term if we win?’’; 
Whereas, on April 12, 2024, when asked by a TIME maga-
zine reporter whether individuals in the United States 
should be concerned about his ‘‘talk of dictatorship’’, 
President-elect Trump stated that he thinks ‘‘a lot of 
people like it’’; 
Whereas, a contributor to Project 2025 has advocated for the 
repeal of the Twenty-second Amendment because it is an 
‘‘arbitrary restraint’’ that would ‘‘constrain’’ a future 
Trump Presidency; 
Whereas, on December 7, 2023, President-elect Trump told 
Fox News that he would be a dictator on ‘‘day one’’; 
Whereas, then-President Trump shared a video on Twitter on 
June 21, 2019, February 5, 2020, and August 4, 2020, 
that depicts him remaining in office indefinitely; 
Whereas, on September 13, 2020, then-President Trump told 
rallygoers in Nevada, ‘‘we’re going to win four more 
years in the White House. And then after that, we’ll ne-
gotiate, right? Because we’re probably–based on the way 
we were treated–we are probably entitled to another four 
after that’’; 
Whereas, on August 17, 2020, then-President Trump told 
rallygoers in Wisconsin, ‘‘We are going to win four more 
years. And then after that, we’ll go for another four 
years because they spied on my campaign. We should get 
a redo of four years’’; 
Whereas, on June 24, 2019, in an interview with The Hill, 
then-President Trump floated the idea of staying in office 
for more than two terms; ‘‘Well, we have to go through 
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the six years or whatever it may be when—when you 
know, would I like to get a ride out of some of your com-
patriots, say, go through the six, 10, 14, maybe 18 years, 
whatever it may be’’; 
Whereas, on June 16, 2019, then-President Trump asked his 
Twitter followers that after a potential second term, ‘‘do 
you think the people would demand that I stay longer?’’; 
Whereas, on May 20, 2019, at a campaign event in Pennsyl-
vania then-President Trump mused about serving five 
terms in the White House, telling the crowd that after 
winning in 2020, ‘‘maybe if we really like it a lot and if 
things keep going like they’re going, we’ll go and we’ll do 
what we have to do. We’ll do a three and a four and a 
five’’; 
Whereas, on April 18, 2019, then-President Trump told a 
crowd that he might remain in the Oval Office ‘‘at least 
for 10 or 14 years’’; 
Whereas, on April 12, 2018, in a speech to Members of Con-
gress touting his tax law, then-President Trump mused 
about staying in office beyond two Presidential terms, 
asking Members, ‘‘Should we go back to sixteen years? 
Should we do that? Congressman, can we do that?’’; and 
Whereas, on March 3, 2018, then-President Trump expressed 
an interest in being ‘‘President for life’’, stating that Chi-
nese President Xi Jinping ‘‘was able to do that. I think 
it’s great. Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot someday’’: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
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(1) reaffirms that the Twenty-second Amend-
ment applies to two terms in the aggregate as Presi-
dent of the United States; and 
(2) reaffirms that the Twenty-second Amend-
ment applies to President-elect President Trump. 
Æ 
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